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The selfish are currently in the ascendency, but if history has one constant lesson it is that change is
inevitable.

A New Politics

 We live on an island blighted by politics based on myths rather than realities. In the republic, two parties vie for power claiming to represent different visions when they really serve the same powerful interests.
People in Northern Ireland are offered little choice in economic and social policy by parties that at election time happily attract [...]

You Make the Future

Class politics are back. In real­ity they had never gone away but during the years of an economic boom based on speculative fan­tasy rather than real production, this truth was shrouded. 
Now the stark choices have returned. How will we build a real productive economy? Who will pay for the wilful social and economic destruction wrought [...]

The need for left unity in the North

The recent political haggling between the DUP and Sinn Fein, played out at Hillsborough Castle over 3 weeks laid bare the shortcomings of the Good Friday Agreement.

Never has the cementing of sectarian division in the institutions of government been more transparent.