Contents of Socialist Voice Election Special, November 2003
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- 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. Read more...
By Ciaran Mulholland
- The one thing the main political parties here are all agreed on is that Northern Ireland should be sold to private profiteers. Read more...
By Carmel Gates
- 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. Read more...
- Trade Union news - reports from Civil Servants, teachers, postal workers and bus drivers.
- Why "we're voting Socialist Party"
- THE FIRE Service Pay Campaign cannot have escaped the attention of very many. A struggle to win fair pay for the nation's fire workers "morphed" into a desperate struggle to defend the very fabric of the fire service. Government spin and a compliant media fed the public a diet consisting of the need to "modernise" an already exemplary, high performing service.Read more...
By Jim Barbour, Executive Committee Fire Brigades Union
- Oppose racism - Since 1997, reported racist attacks in Northern Ireland have increased by 900%. The announcement of these government figures comes amidst a dramatic increase in attacks on ethnic minorities. Read more...
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