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Cailín McCaffery reports on today’s strike action in the civil service, organised by NIPSA. NIPSA civil service workers took strike action today across the North, in a defiant message to public sector bosses. The strike came off the back of a measly pay offer from the Department for Finances
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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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Thousands of health service workers are set to go on strike, because of the inaction of the Fine Gael government. Barney Doherty reports on the background to this strike, and why the workers should have your support. Tomorrow a 24-hour strike, involving up to 10,000 workers, will go
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35 years on, and the impact of the great miners’ strike of 1984–85 still reverberates. Mike Simons, executive producer of the film Still the Enemy Within, takes a look back at this extraordinary struggle. The 1984-85 miners’ strike was the longest, most bitter national strike in British working
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The nurses strike in the South has been one of the most popular strikes in recent times. Rebel interviewed Jo Tully, theatre nurse and trade union activist in St. James’s Hospital Dublin, about the significance of the strike. Rebel: The nurses strike in the South has made trade unions,
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John Gray continues the discussion on the Belfast General Strike of 1919. John’s original piece can be found here, and a reply by Conor Kostick here. Conor Kostick’s ‘reply’ to my own article on the 1919 General Strike is certainly useful in that it more fairly portrays the
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Conor Kostick replies to John Gray’s article on the Belfast General Strike of 1919 (found here), arguing that opportunities for socialist politics during the period should not be underestimated. I believe the 1919 general strike in Belfast was a much more radical event than depicted by John Gray’s
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On Sunday 13 April 1919 began one of the most spirited, radical actions ever to have taken place in Ireland: the declaration of the Limerick ‘soviet’. Conor Kostick looks at why the soviet began, and what lessons we can take for today. On Sunday 13 April 1919, began one of
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100 years ago Belfast was gripped by a remarkable general strike of Catholic and Protestant workers. John Gray, an author and historian of Belfast labour, looks back at that extraordinary event. This January marks the centenary of the most formidable strike in Belfast’s history. It is usually described as
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More than 33,000 members of the United teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) went on strike this week. Their battle has been the culmination of years of neclect, privitisation, and cuts to the LA school district. Rebel Editor Becca Bor, who was active in the Chicago Teachers Union strike of 2012,
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This week, Los Angeles teachers are set to go on strike. This is after a year of teacher revolts – from the strike wave in the Spring of 2018 in West Virginia, Arizona and Oklahoma, to the historic strike of charter school teachers in Chicago. Tithi Bhattacharya discusses why teachers went
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This is the first of two articles by John Molyneux, based on his talk ‘The Future Of Marxism’ at Marxism 2018, which outlined a number of issues which Marxists need to address in the coming period. Part 1 raises the question of the changing nature of the working class. The