British elections – Final countdown
By Claire Laker Mansfield, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in England, Wales and Scotland) The final countdown has begun. With less than a week left of election campaigning, Corbyn and...
View ArticleVicious Tories win with lies – but mass struggle looms on the horizon
The Conservative victory at the general election is a major setback for the working class and youth of Britain. The bumbling bigot Johnson will whip up prejudice and launch further attacks on our...
View ArticleNorth- New Decade, Same Approach
by Daniel Waldron Almost exactly three years after its collapse in the wake of the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scandal, the Northern Ireland Assembly reconvened on Saturday 11th January and elected...
View ArticleNorth and Coronavirus crisis: Emergency measures needed
No loss of jobs or income! Put public health before private profit! The spread of the novel coronavirus Covid-19 has become a major health crisis, unlike anything seen in a century. At the time of...
View ArticleBritain: Tory ‘herd immunity’ strategy puts millions at risk
By Ann Orr “The real hero of Jaws is the mayor. A gigantic fish is eating all your constituents and he decides to keep the beaches open. OK, in that instance he was actually wrong. But in principle, we...
View ArticleCOVID-19- Government intervention as “free market” fails
By Daniel Waldron “Now is not the time for ideology” – this has been the refrain from the Tory government, echoed by Arlene Foster, as the state has been forced to intervene into the economy in a way...
View ArticleBritain/North: Lockdown, Covid-19 Bill and defending democratic rights
By Kevin Henry “Herd immunity, protect the economy, and if that means some pensioners die, too bad” – that’s how attendees at a private event in February said Tory strategist Dominic Cummings summed up...
View ArticleBritain: Cummings affair sparks government crisis
By Tom Costello, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in England, Wales and Scotland) Working class people have had to make endless sacrifices under lockdown. Parents have been denied entry...
View ArticleThe bitter legacy of Margaret Thatcher
By Mike Forster (Socialist Alternative- our sister organisation in England, Wales and Scotland) Thirty years ago, Margaret Thatcher with tears in her eyes ended her eleven year reign as Prime Minister...
View ArticleJohnson praises the role of “capitalism and greed” in Covid response
By Daniel Waldron On the anniversary of the first lockdown in the UK, Boris Johnson proclaimed to Tory backbenchers, “The reason we have the vaccine success is because of capitalism, because of...
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