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Margaret Thatcher despised the trade union movement. She set out to dismantle the power of unionised workers, who she referred to as ‘the enemy within’. Even before she took office as Prime Minister, she said that the Conservatives should, “neglect no opportunity to erode trade union membership”. Once in power,
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People Before Profit MLA Gerry Carroll, who was was on the ground encouraging youths to desist from violence last night in Belfast, criticises the ‘hypocrisy’ of a Stormont Executive who have funded, catered to, and legitimised loyalist paramilitaries while punishing working class communities. Today, just like last night, I stand
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By all accounts, the recent handling of the transfer test has been a disaster. Gerry Carroll argues that academic selection is outdated, unequal and it is high time for it to go. At the onset of Covid-19, there was a clamour by wealthy do-gooders and establishment politicians to
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As the Stormont Executive permits production lines to reopen and teases an end to lockdown, PBP MLA Gerry Carroll says profit is being put before community health. We must be extremely wary of those whose focus now is ‘ending the lockdown’ before we have even the basic measures in place
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Addressing the Stormont Assembly, People Before Profit MLA Gerry Carroll laid the charge for RHI at the door of Arlene Foster’s DUP. His full speech has been transcribed below: “3 years ago, most people would have been unfamiliar with the RHI scheme. We very quickly realised that it was
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NIPSA civil service workers have voted for strike action in response to an inadequate pay offer. PBP MLA Gerry Carroll offers his support to the strike and looks at why action is necessary to achieve decent pay during the Stormont impasse. NIPSA civil service workers are set to strike July
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With the Tories in crisis and revelations that the EU are preparing to implement a hard border in Ireland, do we have to side with either London of Brussels? Gerry Carroll MLA gives his take, in a partially edited address given to a public meeting in Scotland. I think the
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As anti-racists, trade unions and others prepare to gather to oppose the far-right in Belfast, People Before Profit MLA Gerry Carroll looks at how racism and fascism can be opposed. Sinister forces have taken to the streets of Belfast in recent weeks, in an effort to coalesce a