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North Down UDA commander Dee Stitt with DUP Leader Arlene Foster

Grubby details of CON/DUP will undermine Good Friday Agreement

29th June 2017 Socialist Action 0

By Ian Richardson

Most of the reaction to the agreement between the Tories and the DUP has been anger. Critics are fully justified as an effective bribe has been made to keep Theresa May in office, at a time when public services across Britain continue to be cut.

Uniting Ireland – an agreed future

29th June 2017 Socialist Action 0

The following speech by Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams, with preceding extracts from the speech, sets out an agenda for Irish unity, which was previously published here by Sinn Féin.

DUP dawdles behind Tories into cul-de-sac

16th June 2017 Socialist Action 0

By Stephen Bell

At the time of writing, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Arlene Foster, has stated that: ‘Discussions are going well with the government and we hope soon to be able to bring this work to a successful conclusion’. Providing the essential number of MPs to maintain a minority Tory government gives a degree influence which the DUP probably did not anticipate.

Macron may have won, but he will fail

13th May 2017 Socialist Action 0

By Jane West

The French presidential elections ended with Macron sweeping into the Élysée Palace on 66 per cent of the vote, and Le Pen roundly defeated. But this is the beginning, not the end. Macron has no alternative to the politics of austerity that have destroyed the Socialist Party, and therefore he will fail. His popularity will be short-lived and the fight between the left and the far right as to which will succeed in hegemonising the increasing alienated French electorate will break out with renewed force.

Martin McGuinness Memorial Events in London this week

29th March 2017 Socialist Action 0

London Memorial Events – 29th & 30th March

The Sinn Féin London Office will be opening a Book Of Condolences for the late Martin McGuinness in recognition of his lifetime of service as an Irish Republican leader and his contribution to the advancement of the cause of Irish re-unification and Peace in Ireland.

Martin McGuinness, 1950-2017

Martin McGuinness: A great Republican has fallen

21st March 2017 Socialist Action 0

Martin McGuinness was one of the greatest Irish Republican leaders of his or any other generation. Socialist Action sends its condolences to all his loved ones, friends and comrades.