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…
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Roots of the Current Crisis: An Analysis by the Workers’ Party
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. …
Stormont’s Sectarian Squabbles Hides Failure to Run the Economy
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…
Does Wealth Trickle Down?
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…
Getting to the Root of Racism and Sectarianism
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’…
They Squandered the Boom
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