Lynda Walker criticises attempts by unionist leaders to spin the recent developments at Stormont and focuses on the necessity to develop a strong working class position as the devolved state enters a new government amidst growing desperation to protect the union.
For two long years working class people in the north of Ireland have watched as the DUP played political games, dissolving Stormont and unilaterally collapsing the legislative political process.
Workers constantly have to struggle to get pay increases but in Northern Ireland at the present time public sector workers are facing a double struggle, the money is there (whether it will be sufficient remains to be seen) but there is no regional government to oversee wage increases.
The bourgeois troika government in Ireland continues to wring its hands and stands idly by while far-right violence and domestic terrorism in Ireland escalates to new extremes. Eoin Ó Murchú writes for Unity on the dire consequences of allowing far-right narratives to blossom and the pressing need for the Left to step up and provide the leadership needed by communities.
The NEC of the Irish Communist Party has released an analytical statement on the Israeli invasion of Gaza as it continues in order to summarise some of the slogans that must be promoted in our lines of work.
Adam Murray writes on the struggle against censorship as pro-Palestinian voices grow louder and harder to silence.
A new article in Unity takes a closer look at the subjectivity of the appellation “terrorist” and how double standards are deeply engrained in Imperialist narratives.
Eoin Ó Murchú writes on the pressing need for Irish communists to seize the narrative of change in Ireland.
Statement by the National Executive Committee of the Irish Communist Party on the Escalation of Conflict Between Occupied Palestine and Apartheid Israel.
John Malloy writes for Unity on the new possibilities opened up by industrial action in the North, with stagnation beginning to fray from the pressure of working class demands.