Introduction
In late March 2011 the UK Treasury published a consultation document on rebalancing the Northern Ireland Economy.  What follows is the Workers’ Party response to that document and its implications. It is our contention that the economy in Northern Ireland and throughout these islands needs to be rebalanced in favour of the two-thirds who have [...]

An analysis by the Research Section of the Workers’ Party
The global background
The current global crisis emerged from the workings of the capitalist class structure, initially in the USA and subsequently around the world.  Since the mid-1970s, workers’ average real wages in the USA stopped rising partly because the computerisation of production displaced workers and partly because [...]

While DUP and Sinn Fein politicians in the Stormont coalition argue about policing and parades the economy of Northern Ireland is worsening by the day. Twenty thousand people lost their jobs in Northern Ireland 1n 2009.You’d think that our elected representatives might want to discuss that instead.
Last week while political leaders from the DUP and [...]

Speaking in relation to loyalist paramilitary decommissioning, First Minister, Peter Robinson, stated recently that devolution should benefit working class loyalist communities as much as it does the ‘business community’.
According to Mr Robinson “Devolution isn’t there to help the business community alone. It’s there to help every section of our society.” (Newsletter, 19th June) How does [...]

In May 2007 a 25ft-high peace wall was erected through the grounds of an integrated primary school in North Belfast because houses in the adjacent housing estate had been attacked by youths of the ‘other’ religion. There are now 57 peace walls here, mostly in North and West Belfast but they can also be [...]

HOW AND WHY FIANNA FAIL AND ITS ALLIES HAVE BROUGHT THE IRISH ECONOMY TO ITS KNEES
Introduction
The day after Ireland was officially declared to be in recession (Thursday 25th September, 2008) Taoiseach Brian Cowen was quick to reiterate his oft-repeated claim that global factors were behind Ireland’s current economic woes. “What is clearly recorded are global [...]