Article from the January 2006 issue of the Socialist
newspaper of the Socialist Party, Irish section of the CWI

• Profits up! Prices up! Demand decent wages
  
• Estate management fees
  Joe Higgins Column - Militant trade union strategy needed to end exploitation of ALL workers in the state
  
• Irish Ferries struggle
  
• Bin Tax 'value for money'
  
• Bertie Ahern assists CIA torturers By Conor Payne, Dublin SY
  
• Socialist Youth News - South No to a future of slave labour wages - Scrap the Points System
  
• Hain's proposals on water Stand firm for non payment
  
• 30,000 march in Omagh to say "Save our hospital" By Kevin Henry, Omagh Socialist Youth
  
• North - 1975 State Papers British fears of civil war and "a Portugal on our doorstep" By Ciaran Mulholland
  
• Socialist Youth - Queens Uni - Hands off our union! and Low Pay, crap conditions, bully bosses... Fightback! with Socialist Youth By Chris Loughlin, Belfast Socialist Youth
  
• Northern Irish workplace news
  Civil Service pay - Vote for all out action - A penny an hour won't do! By Paul Dale, NIPSA Civil Service Executive (personal capacity) Shimna College - Workers vote to fight redundancies, Support PCS strikers, etc.
  
• Iraq election fails to heal sectarian divisions
  
• After Sharon - Middle East in turmoil by Peter Hadden
  
• Bolivia Morales election another nightmare for the US? By Cillian Gillespie
  
• USA: New York transport strike Sixty hours of workers power By Matt Waine
  
• International news inc: the Pakistan Earthquake appeal, the Campaign for a Workers Party in Britain, Iran, Greece.