Why the Socialist Alternative?

IT is not enough to criticise the Stormont Executive, although criticise them we must for their numerous well documented failings.

- Hugh Scullion

We must state clearly what we mean by “The Socialist Alternative.”

We live in a society which is biased towards the haves at the expense of the have not’s. We want to reverse this corruption in society.

For the Workers Party the welfare of workers and their families is the motivation for our political analysis.

We want to see proper childcare provision, an integrated education system where all children are encouraged to be the best they can be, irrespective of race religion or ability.

It has taken a High Court ruling against the Executive, and the DUP and Sinn Fein in particular; to force them to focus on an Anti-Poverty Strategy, based on objective need, almost ten years after they committed to it in the St Andrews Agreement. Child poverty, fuel poverty and the poverty of the working poor all continue to increase.