Belfast

Strikers with PCS at their workplace, Sodexo Belfast behind the word 'Victory!'

Sodexo Workers Win In Full After 50 Days On Strike

“Sodexo, a multinational that made over £1 billion in profit last year, tried to make low-paid workers pay for its cost-cutting. These workers refused to accept it. They stood together on the picket line... and they forced one of the biggest companies in the world to back down.” Gerry Carroll MLA

6 Nov 2026

Carroll: Civil Service Pride Withdrawal 'Regressive and Reckless'

Carroll: Civil Service Pride Withdrawal 'Regressive and Reckless'

We call on all civil service staff who wish to march at Pride to do so and can march with us if they wish. Rights are won through struggle on the streets, and they will be defended the same way. Belfast Pride is 25 July.

25 Jun 2026

Carroll: "This Is the Real Belfast" at City's Biggest Ever Anti-Racist Rally

Carroll: "This Is the Real Belfast" at City's Biggest Ever Anti-Racist Rally

"Today, Belfast spoke with one voice. This was the biggest anti-racist demonstration this city has ever seen, and everyone who turned out should be proud. We reclaimed our city from the fascist thugs who tried to take it from us. The people have answered terror with solidarity..." - Gerry Caroll

13 Jun 2026

News

Statement on Belfast Pogroms

"Whether the division is sectarian or racist, it turns working-class people against one another while poverty, lack of housing and inequality remain untouched. The answer is not one community against another, but ordinary people organising together for the homes and services we all need."

11 Jun 2026

People Before Profit Call for Urgent Trade Union Response to Pogrom

People Before Profit Call for Urgent Trade Union Response to Pogrom

On behalf of People Before Profit, we urge the trade union movement who represents hundreds of thousands of workers here to use all the power at its disposal to thwart the racist thugs who wish to divide us.

9 Jun 2026

Gerry Carroll

Farage and Far-right Grifters Have "Nothing to Offer" the North, Except Division

"The speed with which the British far-right has descended... with Nigel Farage, jumping in to use it for their own divisive, nasty ends. These people don’t give a damn about working class people in Belfast. We shouldn’t let them exploit people’s real concern."

9 Jun 2026

Gerry Carroll at Erskine House

Carroll to Hilary Benn: Stop Watching as Sodexo Slashes Jobs at Your Own Front Door

"A company that operates in 45 countries and made over £1 billion in profit last year? They are not short of resources to guarantee secure and well-paid jobs. The receptionists, cleaners, porters and kitchen workers? Sodexo is treating them disgracefully." Gerry Carroll MLA

4 Jun 2026

Large Demonstration with Unite members from QUB and NIPSA members in solidarity with Clements Coffee workers under threat of redundancy.

Facing Redundancy at QUB, Hospitality Workers at Clements Coffee Organise and Fight

With zero-hours contracts, miscategorisation, low pay and now threatened redundancy, long-suffering organised workers at QUB's longstanding Clements Coffee are calling for solidarity from the community on campus and sense from the bosses who should hire them directly.

1 May 2026

Family members carry a banner with the faces of the 5 shooting victim outside the court.

Carroll Welcomes Springhill Inquest Verdict

"This is a moment of vindication, hard-won through decades of courage and determination by the families and their supporters. Now it's time for state-backed killers to be brought to justice."

30 Apr 2026