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ETOL Writers: Peter Hadden
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“Socialism ... means no privileged elite, only the right of people themselves to manage their own affairs. It means creating an international brotherhood and sisterhood, a unity based on respect of difference and in which all national and minority rights would be guaranteed. It is the unity of the working class, built in the struggle for such a society that will solve the national problem in Ireland.” |
Peter Hadden was a representative from Ireland at the 1974 founding congress of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) and was re-elected to its International Executive Committee thereafter. Born into a Protestant household in Country Tyrone, Northern Ireland, he joined the ‘Militant’, in Britain, while studying at Sussex University in the late 1960s. He returned to Northern Ireland in 1971, committed to building the forces of Trotskyism and the unity of the working class, along with the other initial forces of the Irish Militant. After a few years working for the NIPSA union, he worked full time as a leading member of the National Executive of the Irish Militant/Socialist Party for the rest of his life, serving as a guiding influence on the party, both north and south. Peter was Northern Secretary of the party, including during the long years of the ‘Troubles’.
Renowned for his clarity, Peter made very important contributions on many political issues and Marxist theory, in particular concerning a socialist analysis of and programme for the national question in Ireland and internationally. He wrote prolifically for the socialist press in Ireland, Britain and internationally, including Militant Irish Monthly and The Socialist. In addition to his journalistic work, Peter wrote pamphlets and books, such as Common Misery, Common Struggle (1980), Divide and Rule (1980), Beyond the Troubles? (1994), Troubled Times: The National Question in Ireland (1995) and Towards Division Not Peace (2002). This archive is intended to give an outline of his full life of political work.
Irish Times: Peter Hadden – Co-founder of Socialist Party (May 2010)
Kevin McLoughlin: A tribute to comrade Peter Hadden’s contribution (May 2010)
Niall Mulholland: Peter Hadden – an inspiring life for socialism (May 2010)
March 1972: Connolly and the 1916 uprising
April 1972: Derry murders condoned – The Widgery whitewash
April 1972: End sectarian violence with Trade Union Defence Force
October 1972: No coalition – for a socialist Labour Party
November 1972: Officials’ Civil Rights demand – inadequate at this stage
January 1973: Officials’ Ard Fheis – Adopt socialist ideas demand rank and file
March 1974: Trade union movement must defend workers
July 1974: Conference of Workers Parties needed Now (as Peter Hunt)
September 1974: After three years of internment in Northern Ireland – Only workers’ movement can solve the problems (as Peter Hunt)
January 1975: NILP Conference – Shows the need for a genuine workers’ party (as Peter Hunt)
April 1976: Belfast Workers protest – Meter man murdered (as Peter Hunt)
July 1976: Flecks Strike
August 1976: Shankill Peace March
September 1976: Workers defence in Northern Ireland
October 1976: Peace Movement – Labour Movement must intervene (as Peter Hunt)
October 1977: NILP and sectarianism (letter)
April 1978: End Sectarianism (as Peter Hunt)
April 1979: Bennett Report – Police Torture exposed
May 1979: Trade Unions must fight repression
February 1980: Northern ICTU Conference – Support Grows for a Labour Party
August 1980: Divide and Rule (pamphlet)
February 1981: British Labour Right rejects democracy
October 1982: Assembly – a platform for Tories
January 1983: Provisionals – a blind alley for youth
October 1983: Supergrasses
October 1983: War in Lebanon – class unity the key
November 1983: Guerilla warfare – no alternative to mass struggle
December 1983: Why socialists must oppose Sinn Fein
August 1984: Northern Ireland – A Marxist analysis (pamphlet)
Spring 1986: The Anglo-Irish Agreement – A Warning to Labour
July 1986: Civil war threat – workers must respond
June 1987: Sri Lanka – Only socialist revolution can end the bloodbath
July 1987: Northern Ireland Perspectives (pamphlet)
November 1987: Anglo-Irish Agreement – another failed solution
February 1988: Palestinian youth revolt
April 1988: How workers defeated the bigots
Summer 1988: Northern Ireland – Tories Reach an Impasse
June 1988: De Lorean style “realism” or a socialist solution
October 1988: 1968 – Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement
1989: The Troops go into Northern Ireland
April 1989: Defend nationalisation – No to the buy-out (as Harry Peters)
April 1989: Irish Labour Party Conference – Witch-hunt of Militant
Autumn 1989: Twenty Years Since the Troops Went In (Debate with Clare Short)
October 1989: Provos bomb marines in Deal (as Harry Peters)
December 1989: Greece – the prospect for world capitalism
December 1990: Will Britain withdraw? – An analysis of Brooke’s statement
January 1992: Build workers’ unity to end the troubles and drive out the Tories
July 1992: Northern Perspectives Statement
August 1992: Yugoslavia – disintegration and slaughter
November 1992: No Pay Freeze
March 1993: Militant Labour stands in May elections
March 1993: People in bullet proof houses
1994: Beyond the Troubles? (pamphlet)
January 1994: A Precisely Worded Fudge
October 1994: Statement on the Ceasefire in Northern Ireland
1995: Troubled Times – The National Question in Ireland (pamphlet)
Autumn 1995: Arms Decommissioning
March 1996: Northern Ireland – there is no capitalist solution
April 1996: Somewhere between war and peace
July 1996: NI ‘peace’ process rumbles on
May 1997: No Change in Northern Ireland
September 1998: After the Omagh bomb
1999: The Struggle for Socialism Today (pamphlet)
2000: Paddy Devlin (1925–1999) (obituary)
May 2000: IRA Statement: Is the war over?
July 2000: The Alternative to the annual battleground
July 2000: Parades crisis needs working-class solution to wider sectarian conflict
September 2000: What’s behind the loyalist feud?
November 2000: Northern Ireland – Another Middle East in the Making?
June 2001: Northern Ireland – The No Choice Election
July 2001: Killed for Being a Catholic
July 2001: Northern Ireland ‘peace process’ – Sliding into sectarian conflict
August 2001: Stop the slide into conflict
August 2001: Workers Must Challenge the Bigots
September 2001: No cause justifies this
September 2001: Working Class Must Unite Against Sectarianism
January 2002: Strike against sectarianism
March 2002: Don’t privatise the Post Office
March 2002: Private finance initiatives
March 2002: Towards Division Not Peace (pamphlet)
June 2002: Sectarian violence worsens in Belfast
July 2002: Build the fight against sectarianism
July 2002: Support the sacked airport workers
November 2002: Stand by the Firefighters
January 2003: Airport Struggle Continues (interview with Gordon McNeill)
January 2003: Bin The Bain Report – Act to Defend the Fire Service (inc. interview with Tom Maguire)
February 2003: Fire Fighters Lead 20,000 Strong Belfast Anti-War Demonstration
April 2003: Bush/Blair seek Peace Process alibi to cover their responsibility for slaughter in Iraq (with Joe Higgins)
April 2003: Iraq – Occupation, the Reality of ‘Liberation’ (with Stephen Boyd)
April 2003: Stop the Slaughter in the Gulf (with Stephen Boyd)
May 2003: Imperialism’s Grim Legacy – The Reality of Occupation (with Stephen Boyd)
May 2003: Northern Ireland Assembly elections – Only working class can end sectarian impasse
Summer 2003: European workers fight back
June 2003: Angry Shorts’ Workers Reject Pay Deal
September 2003: Carpet Factories Face Closure – Management to Blame
September 2003: Free the bin bag two
December 2003: Northern Ireland – End of the Road for the Assembly?
January 2004: Sacked Airport Workers Take Battle to Court
Spring 2004: Nigeria – A country in crisis
January 2005: Sacked airport workers’ tribunal – Employers & union officials in the dock
February 2005: The failure of sectarian politics
March 2005: Socialist challenge in Fermanagh
March 2005: Where now for the peace process?
April 2005: Republicanism in crisis
May 2005: Socialist policies give an alternative to sectarian division
August 2005: Disband ALL paramilitaries
November 2005: Northern Ireland – Towards conflict or peace?
December 2005: George Best wrote poetry with his feet
January 2006: After Sharon – Middle East in turmoil
March 2006: Historic strike victory for postal workers ...
March 2006: Postal workers say: “We may have to strike again”
April 2006: The real ideas of James Connolly
April 2006: Strike threat at Visteon
June 2006: Fighting to save jobs in Lisnaskea
November 2006: No peace dividend for working class people
February 2007: Sinn Fein’s major U-turn
March 2007: Water charges a key issue in Assembly election campaign
April 2007: “We won’t pay” say hundreds of demonstrators in Belfast
May 2007: Belfast airport workers – Campaigning for justice
May 2007: Northern Ireland – 1907 Dockers and Carters’ strike
May 2007: Sacked airport workers out to prove that … Ordinary workers can fight back
September 2007: Belfast International Airport workers win ground-breaking court victory
January 2008: Socialist Party replies to Sinn Fein attacks on classroom assistants
February 2008: Another election, another recipe for sectarian deadlock
Spring 2008: Iraq five years on – Invasion and occupation – An unmitigated disaster
March 2008: British state repression, the IRA’s armed campaign and the Labour Movement
May 2008: Sacked airport workers’ six year long battle for justice
June 2008: Belfast Airport workers – The long battle for justice
July 2008: Airport workers win appeal – We need fighting democratic unions
September 2008: Attempt to jail Gordon McNeill fails
September 2008: SP calls for nationalisation of energy companies
October 2008: UNISON union expels socialist activist
November 2008: Sectarian agendas at play
Winter 2008: Descent into Chaos – The United States and the failure of nation building in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia
April 2009: Belfast Visteon occupation – One week on and still solid
June 2009: Northern Ireland – Who can fill the political vacuum
July 2009: August 1969 – When British troops went into Northern Ireland
August 2009: Afghanistan – will this be Obama’s Vietnam?
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