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46 releases
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Far Right Agitators From Dublin Marching With Loyalist Paramilitaries Shows Who The Far Right Are Says People Before Profit
People Before Profit says the appearance of Dublin far‑right agitators marching alongside loyalist paramilitaries in Belfast reveals the nature of the far right, condemns racist attacks on migrant‑run businesses and calls on the ICTU and civil society to organise a national anti‑far‑right rally of t
Disability and equality Immigration Original release: Far Right Agitators From Dublin Marching With Loyalist Paramilitaries Shows Who The Far Right Are Says People Before Profit
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People Before Profit Contests Westminster Election
People Before Profit announce three candidates – Shaun Harkin (Foyle), Gerry Carroll MLA (West Belfast) and Fiona Ferguson (North Belfast) – for the July 4 Westminster election, pledging to make Palestine a key issue and to challenge Tory‑driven austerity, soaring rents and housing shortages.
International affairs Housing Original release: People Before Profit Contests Westminster Election
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Harkin: Reject Far-Right Divisive Abuse Of New Derry Mayor
People Before Profit Cllr Shaun Harkin condemns racist and divisive abuse aimed at Councillor Lilian Seenoi-Barr after her announcement as Mayor of Derry City and Strabane, and expresses solidarity with black and minoritised communities. He also criticises the SDLP's record on Black Lives Matter…
Disability and equality Immigration Original release: Harkin: Reject Far-Right Divisive Abuse Of New Derry Mayor
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Junior Doctors Are Right To Strike
People Before Profit backs Northern Ireland's Junior Doctors on their first 24-hour strike over pay, and calls for a consolidated 10% pay increase for health and social care workers. It lists picket locations at Craigavon, the Royal Victoria and Altnagelvin hospitals.
Health Economy and employment Original release: Junior Doctors Are Right To Strike
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Get Organised Against Racism – Stand Together
People Before Profit urges people to stand together against racism and fascist violence, saying far-right groups including the National Party and Irish Freedom Party are redirecting anger over housing and cost of living onto asylum seekers and other marginalised people.
Disability and equality Immigration Original release: Get Organised Against Racism – Stand Together
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People Before Profit Support The Translink Strikers
People Before Profit Cllr Shaun Harkin backs Translink workers on strike and their escalated industrial action, criticising a 0 per cent pay offer and saying promises from the Secretary of State, the DUP and a restored Stormont Executive count for nothing.
Economy and employment Infrastructure and transport Original release: People Before Profit Support The Translink Strikers
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Giant Strike Recharges Workers’ Fight
People Before Profit says the Thursday Public Sector Strike was the largest and best-coordinated since at least 2015, and calls for workers to strike again for longer, with unions and communities preparing sustained action.
Economy and employment Education Original release: Giant Strike Recharges Workers’ Fight
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Tens Of Thousands Strike
People Before Profit says today's one-day strike by NIPSA and Royal College of Midwives members, joined by Unison and Unite healthcare workers, created one of the largest days of coordinated action in the cost of living crisis. MLA Gerry Carroll calls for strikes to continue until proper pay rises…
Economy and employment Health Original release: Tens Of Thousands Strike
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Who Is Posie Parker And Why We Protest
People Before Profit says Posie Parker (Kellie-Jay Keen) is using a campaign against trans people to try to reverse the Gender Recognition Act, and cites her associations with far-right figures as reasons for protesting her Irish appearances.
Disability and equality Original release: Who Is Posie Parker And Why We Protest
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Huge Protest Against Fascists In Dunmurry
People Before Profit says around 1,000 people attended a protest in Dunmurry against a Nazi flag flown outside a local mosque, organised by United Against Racism with over 20 supporting organisations, including unions and a message from NIC-ICTU.
Disability and equality Original release: Huge Protest Against Fascists In Dunmurry
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2023: Socialism Is The Answer To A World In Crisis
People Before Profit's end-of-year statement argues that capitalism cannot solve inflation, climate change, reproductive rights, the war in Ukraine or Ireland's housing and hospital crises, and calls for Ireland's first left wing government.
Economy and employment International affairs Original release: 2023: Socialism Is The Answer To A World In Crisis
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The RCN Strike
People Before Profit publishes a transcript of an RCN strike-day interview at Ulster Hospital, where RCN representatives say nurses remain out of pay parity with England, Scotland and Wales, causing recruitment and retention problems and unsafe staffing.
Health Economy and employment Original release: The RCN Strike
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The NHS Strikes
People Before Profit says it visited Belfast City and Royal Victoria hospitals during a 24-hour NHS strike by over 2000 workers across five trusts, with GMB, NIPSA and Unison taking part. It reports unions citing pay, staffing and mileage rates.
Health Economy and employment Original release: The NHS Strikes
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Save The South West Acute Hospital Now, Save Real Lives Now!’
People Before Profit Tyrone Branch member Carol Gallagher says threats to the South West Acute Hospital's emergency services will put lives at risk and calls for protests across Fermanagh and Tyrone to save the hospital.
Health Original release: Save The South West Acute Hospital Now, Save Real Lives Now!’
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The UCU Strikes
People Before Profit interviews Ulster University UCU representative Aisling O'Beirn on a picket line, where she describes large teaching loads, casualised hourly-paid contracts, rising workloads and a 35% cut to future pension benefits as reasons for the strike.
Education Economy and employment Original release: The UCU Strikes
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Savita Halappanavar: 10 Years On The Struggle Continues
People Before Profit says the current abortion law is a relic and calls for true reproductive justice, ending the 3‑day wait, 12‑week limit and lack of services, as it marks the 10‑year anniversary of Savita Halappanavar’s death.
Disability and equality Health Issue: Savita Halappanavar 10‑year anniversary Original release: Savita Halappanavar: 10 Years On The Struggle Continues
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Ireland’s Future Cannot Be Built On Ireland’s Past
People Before Profit says a united Ireland needs a border poll without delay and must be a radically different, socialist state rather than a continuation of the two existing states, citing housing, childcare, health waiting lists and tax havens.
Constitutional affairs Economy and employment Original release: Ireland’s Future Cannot Be Built On Ireland’s Past
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Gerry Carroll MLA Supports Campaign For Women’s Refuge.
West Belfast MLA Gerry Carroll calls on the Communities Minister and the NI Housing Executive to urgently commission a replacement women’s supported‑living hostel, saying the shutdown of Regina Coeli and unkept promises have left vulnerable women without safe accommodation.
Housing Disability and equality Original release: Gerry Carroll MLA Supports Campaign For Women’s Refuge.
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Families Struggling To Cope With Private Care Home Top-Up Fees
People Before Profit Cllr Shaun Harkin says families are struggling with third-party top-up fees charged by private care homes, and says Derry and Strabane Council has agreed to request a report on the Western Trust's use of them. He calls for a Trust investigation and assurances on fair pricing.
Health Local government Original release: Families Struggling To Cope With Private Care Home Top-Up Fees
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Reject Tory Pay Insult For Above Inflation Pay Rise
People Before Profit Cllr Shaun Harkin says the Tory party’s pay proposal is an insult to nurses and public‑sector staff, calling it a pay cut because it is below the 11.9% RPI inflation rate, and urges Stormont to back above‑inflation pay rises and industrial action.
Economy and employment Health Issue: Stormont Health Minister Robin Swann accepts Tory pay cut for HSC workers Original release: Reject Tory Pay Insult For Above Inflation Pay Rise