Latest News
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Marchers oppose BNP's 'festival of hate' Read on...
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Youth Against Racism condemns Cllr Henry Reilly comments Read on...
Unison: Four banned from office for three years Read on...
Threat of water charges will be met with non-payment Read on...
Lindsey oil refinery workers secure stunning victory
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International News
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Italy: Workers fightback grows
US: Eight years since 9/11 attacks and the invasion of Afghanistan
Britain/Libya: Lockerbie bombing: cynical actions of capitalist governments exposed
Belgium: Antwerp - repression used to force through anti-veil measures
Southern News
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10,000 Electricians on Strike Read on...
Socialist Party Statement: Building a new mass party for working people Read on...
Elections: Socialist Party defeats Fianna Fail and Sinn Fein
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Fianna Fail & Greens take a hammering
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Blasphemy!
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Ryan report exposes Church & State child abuse
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The Joe Higgins Column
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International Solidarity Campaigns
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What We Stand For
In the Workplace
An immediate increase in the minimum wage to £8 per hour as a step towards the European Decency Threshold.
Abolition of the youth exemptions.
Trade union action to enforce these minimum rates.
For a 35 hour week without loss in pay.
Full employment protection rights from day one of employment.
Scrap the anti-trade union laws.
Reject Welfare to Work; for the right to decent benefits, training or a job without compulsion.
Public services
Stop the sell off of schools, hospitals and other services.
Scrap student fees - for a living grant.
No backdoor privatisation of services through Public Finance Initiatives or Public Private Partnership or other schemes.
Bring back into public ownership industry, land and services that have been sold.
Provide adequate funding of all public services to meet need.
Run public bodies democratically through elected governing bodies, with majority representation given to those who work in them and the communities they serve.
Pensions
No to the attack on pension entitlement.
No increase in the retirement age.
For a living state pension available to all - with annual increases linked to average earnings.
Water charges
Scrap the proposal to introduce separate water charges.
No water privatisation.
Full support for the We Won't Pay Campaign's call for a mass campaign of non payment if charges are introduced.
Equality
A complete end to all forms of discrimination, whether on the grounds of religion, race, sex, sexuality, or disability.
Free nursery and creche facilities.
Equal pay and equality of opportunity for women.
No to racism & homophobia
For mass community action to stop the racist attacks and the attacks on gays and other minorities.
Reclaim the trade unions
Build the lefts in the unions.
Trade unions must be democratically controlled by the membership.
Full time officials should be regularly elected and paid the average wage of those they represent.
Peace process
Build a real peace process based on uniting the working class communities, not on bringing discredited politicians together.
Joint trade union and community action to counter all forms of sectarianism.
An end to all activity by all paramilitaries, loyalist and republican.
Complete demilitarisation - establish genuine policing services that are locally based and under the control of democratically elected policing committees.
The conflict cannot be resolved on a capitalist basis - for the building of a mass political party capable of uniting the working class in the struggle for a socialist solution.
For a socialist Ireland as part of a free and voluntary socialist federation of Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales.
No to the bosses EU
For solidarity action by the working class across Europe.
For a socialist confederation of European states established on a free and voluntary basis.
Socialism
Capitalism is capable only of delivering poverty, environmental destruction and war.
We need an international struggle against this system and its effects.
Take the major finance houses and the 500 largest companies into public ownership and place them under the democratic control and management of the working class.
Build a socialist world in which the resources of the planet are used to satisfy the needs of the mass of the people, not the thirst for profit of a tiny minority of super rich.