Northern Ireland

Victory to Belfast Traffic Wardens!

After a 4 month battle against bosses over their sacking for wildcat action, 28 traffic wardens in Belfast have won their fight.

Traffic wardens this week expressed joy at finally winning their demands in their struggle against their employer NCP. The workers were engaged in almost daily protest since April after 28 were sacked for taking part in wildcat industrial action over working conditions and sick-pay.

Shoot to kill in Belfast, 1992 - European Counter Network

Report on the shooting of an IRA member by Belfast police in November 1992.

A young Irish republican was shot dead by police in Belfast on Wednesday 25th November [1992] in what seems to have been a pre-planned shoot-to-kill operation. 22 year old Pearse Jordan was driving along the Falls Road when his car was rammed and forced onto the pavement by two cars.

Protests continue in Belfast for sacked Nortel workers

Protests continued today in support of 87 workers sacked with no redundancies at the Nortel plant outside Belfast last March.

Workers and protestors gathered outside the Bedford Street offices of Nortel's administrators, Ernst & Young, in Belfast. Members of Organise! joined the sacked workers as they unfurled banners and handed information lealfets to shoppers and workers in central Belfast.

From Bloody Sunday to Trafalgar Square

This text describes the mass insurgency in Ireland leading up to the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre, and looks at how the British state has applied the lessons from Ireland against the working class in Britain. It was first published in early 1991 in the aftermath of the Trafalgar Square poll tax riot and circulated as a 4 page A4 leaflet amongst the anti-poll tax movement ; later it was republished in Clash, the international autonomist magazine and Wildcat (London).

"I'd shoot some of these bastards, I would, honest... this is more like Northern Ireland" (comments by police, 31 March 1990)

Archaic and bearer of communism: the class struggle in Ulster - J. Yves Bériou

Analysis of the national liberation movement in 1970s Northern Ireland, its relation to capitalist restructuring, and the possibilities this allows for class struggle.

The recent events in Northern Ireland simply demonstrate by themselves to what extent all lies stand together. The avatars of rotting modern thought flaunt themselves quite openly in the eyes of "public opinion". The barbarism of the British army of occupation is denounced for the benefit of the barbarism of the IRA and its terror inflicted on the backs of the proletariat.

Hundreds protest racist attacks in Belfast

Hundreds of people from all over Belfast gathered last night against recent racist attacks in south Belfast. Many spent the night keeping watch outside a house of the victimised Romanian families.

Between 200-300 people were estimated to have been in attendance at the protest, called at very short notice on the Lisburn Road in south Belfast. The crowd were protesting against the recent upsurge in racist attacks in the south Befast area, which have concentrated in the last week on three houses where Romanian families live.