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A full report of out electoral intervention, plus an anysis of the main results, will be added asap. In the meantime, here is a wide range of the material we produced during the election.
The SP Regional Executive would like to thank: A Our candidates - Tommy and Jim; B - our election workers; C Those who helped finance the campaign; D and all those who voted for Socialist politics and in opposition to the water charges. SP REC 1.12.3


End of the Road for the Assembly?

SP Regional Executive Statement, December 9th.

The Assembly elections have produced a recipe for ongoing political stalemate and paralysis. Sinn Fein and the DUP are the clear victors and, no matter how they try to put a gloss on the result, both Trimble’s UUP and the SDLP have lost out badly.

Trimble has tried to argue otherwise, pointing to the fact that the UUP vote largely held up and that they came away with 27 seats, a loss of only one on their 1998 performance. Read more...

Vote Socialist on 26 November 2003

Vote for the Socialist Party in the Assembly Elections

Jim Barbour, FBU leader and Socialist Party candidate in Belfast South Tommy Black, community activist and Socialist Party candidate in Belfast East

Vote Jim Barbour No. 1
Belfast South

Vote Tommy Black No. 1
Belfast East

NOVEMBER 26 - SHAKE the SYSTEM - BUILD the ALTERNATIVE    JIM BARBOUR - BELFAST SOUTH   TOMMY BLACK - BELFAST EAST Click on here for the Latest Election News

Latest Election News

Socialist Party Manifesto


Tommy Black, community activist and SP candidate in Belfast East

East Belfast
Manifesto


 Jim Barbour, FBU Nat. Exec. Comm. member and SP candidate in Belfast South

South Belfast
Manifesto

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Press Statements

26 November 2003 - shake the system - build the alternative

The Socialist Party has decided to stand 2 candidates
in the Assembly Elections in Belfast on 26 November 2003.

Updated: Monday 1 December 2003

The candidates are Jim Barbour, Belfast South and Tommy Black, East Belfast.

Jim is a leading activist in the FBU while Tommy has been a community activist in East for years, leading the local anti-water charges campaign and has been active in the Low Pay struggle.

Copies of the manifesto, statements,etc. will be added in the next few days. ANYONE who can help should contact our election offices, 13 Lombard Street, Belfast. Ph 90232962.

We will need help in running the campaign, funding the campaign and getting the message out. Help out where you can. If you know activists in these 2 areas, encourage them to help. People outside Belfast can help in numerous ways.
Biographical details of Jim Barbour and Tommy Black
General Financial Appeal
Letter from Tommy Black asking for support
How can you help???
The polished, printers version of election material will be available online soon. Hard copies may be obtained by contacting our office.

Some articles from Socialist Voice Election Special, November 03

DESPITE MONTHS of negotiations, no agreement has been reached on how an Executive will be put in place after the election. At the last minute David Trimble rejected IRA decommissioning moves as not "transparent" enough and a supposedly carefully crafted deal fell apart.
By Ciaran Mulholland
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The one thing the main political parties here are all agreed on is that Northern Ireland should be sold to private profiteers. By Carmel Gates
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The DUP and UUP in the Assembly managed to preside over the de-industrialisation of much of East Belfast. The Shipyard has been reduced to a shell, the days of building ships no more than a memory, the skills built up over a century will now probably be lost for ever.
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Press Statements


24 November 2003 - Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins, recently jailed for leading the mass non-payment of bin charges in the Dublin area, today visited Belfast to add his voice to the opposition to water charges here.
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23 November 2003 - Joe Higgins, Socialist Party TD for Dublin West will visit Belfast on Monday 24th.
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20 November 2003 - Tommy Black gives support to the Shorts workers in dispute with management.
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19 November 2003- Tommy Black, Socialist Party candidate for East Belfast, today called for the land in the Harbour Estate to be “given back to the people of Belfast”.
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18 November 2003 - Jim Barbour, Socialist Party candidate for South Belfast, today called for all candidates to declare their financial interests in private companies after criticising Esmond Bernie of hypocrisy on the question of affordable electricity prices.
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17 November 2003 - Tommy Black, Socialist Party candidate for East Belfast, today called for the land in the Harbour Estate to be “given back to the people of Belfast”.
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16 November 2003 - Jim Barbour, Socialist Party candidate for South Belfast has called for a protest at the US consulate on Thursday 20 November @ 1.00pm to oppose the visit of US President George Bush to London
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13 November 2003 - Jim Barbour calls on Finance Minister Ian Pearson to resign. South Belfast Socialist Party candidate Jim Barbour today called on Finance Minister, Ian Pearson, to resign immediately over his handling of pay negotiations with civil servants.
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13 November 2003 - The Socialist Party today launched its manifesto for the Assembly elections. The Party is standing candidates in two constituencies.
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11 November 2003 - Socialist Party candidate for South Belfast Jim Barbour today accused all the main parties of behaving like rats escaping from Titanic over the water charges issue.
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10 November 2003 - Jim Barbour calls for Assembly to reverse school sell-off policy - South Belfast Socialist Party candidate Jim Barbour has called for the new Assembly to take Wellington College back under public ownership and control.
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8 November 2003 - East Belfast Socialist Party candidate, Tommy Black has challenged the parties to support Teachers in their fight to retain pay parity.
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6 November 2003 - Socialist Party complains of BBC restrictions on our candidate by Peter Hadden
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6 November 2003 - Tommy Black accuses Peter Robinson and Reg Empey of “selling East Belfast for a song”
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4 November 2003 - Statement by Jim barbour on the water charges
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4 November 2003 - Statement over the BBC's ban on Jim Barbour a member of the FBU Nat. Ex. and the SP candidate in Belfast South, from commenting on the FBU dispute - .
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2 November 2003 - Statement by Tommy and Jim on Sunday . - Supporting the Post Office workers.
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