Northern Ireland – Is the peace process under threat? No, but the working class is!

Reprinted from Class Struggle Jul/Aug 2002 (bi-monthly – Workers’ Fight – Britain) In Mid-May, almost exactly one year after the Catholic Holy Cross girls’ school in North Belfast’s Ardoyne was singled out as a target by UDA–UFF gangs, the mostly Catholic Short Strand area, in East Belfast, came under attack from the UVF. This time,…

Which route for political, working class unity in Britain?

We are publishing the statement by Cymru Goch because it highlights some of the problems hampering the struggle for working class unity in Britain. Bob Goupillot outlines his personal reflections on these problems and suggests a possible way forward. My view is that all individual socialists and socialist organisations should be inside the SSP or…

Successful republican festival and victory at free speech trial

The following report comes for Y Faner Goch, issues no 134 and 135 More than 300 people attended the three day Stuff the Monarchy festival organised by Cymru Goch in Pontypridd’s Clwb y Bont over the Jubilee bank holiday. Those attending were a broad mix of republican, socialists and greens from across Wales and enjoyed…

Colombia, the IRA, US and Manifest Destiny

Matt Siegfried, a socialist and trade unionist activist from Detroit, looks at the implications for the US government’s Plan Colombia This article first appeared in Fourthwrite No. 10, Summer 2002. The ruling class of the United States has long viewed everything south of the Rio Grande as its exclusive domain. The United States became a…

Unfinished Business: 11 September, one year on

Twelve months after the attacks on New York & Washington, Nick Clarke examines what their impact has been internationally It is now one year since two passenger jets were piloted into the World Trade Centre’s Twin Towers, while another was diverted into the Pentagon and a fourth crashed in Pennsylvania. The images of the attack…

Irish Socialists appeal for support in stand against sectarianism

This is a statement issued by Belfast International Socialists and Socialist Democracy We, the undersigned, wish to declare our absolute opposition to the growing bigotry and sectarianism within society in the North of Ireland as shown by events at Holy Cross, the Short Strand and countless other incidents. Far from being the dying gasp of…