Shaun Harkin

Harkin: Strike Action Can Put it Up to Stormont Political Establishment

Harkin: Strike Action Can Put it Up to Stormont Political Establishment

People power action can knock the powers in government to the sideline and overpower those outside it who want to incite division, scapegoat migrants and the vulnerable. Strikes are a force that people can use to challenge the political establishment. We're with the workers.

4 Sep 2026

Harkin: Resist Damaging Cuts to Health Service

Harkin: Resist Damaging Cuts to Health Service

Harkin at the Altnagelvin protest: "Workers and everyone dependent on the health service is being punished because the Stormont Executive has refused to ensure sustainable funding, has facilitated privatisation and can't pay workers delivering care everyday a decent wage."

28 Aug 2026

Binning Derry Air Dome Sports Facility is Premature and Reckless

Binning Derry Air Dome Sports Facility is Premature and Reckless

"UU was expected to contribute only half of the £18m cost to build the dome. This is a drop in the ocean when compared to the £350m spent on the new Belfast campus." says Cllr Shaun Harkin

7 Aug 2026

Councillor Shaun Harkin in front of Mubuoy Superdump

DAERA Minister Concedes Mobuoy Superdump Health Impact Assessment

Cllr Shaun Harkin's intervention with Muir resulted in a concession, with the minister agreeing to a Health Impact Assessment around a notorious superdump.

5 Aug 2026

Magee University Building, Strikers with placards, Cllr Shaun Harkin

Harkin: Stand with Workers to Defend UU Jobs and Magee Expansion

Derry City and Strabane District Council will hold a Special Meeting 2pm Tuesday 28th July to hear from Ulster University trade union representatives regarding proposed redundancies and Magee expansion.

28 Jul 2026

Portrush

Portrush Hate March Organised by Fascists Doing Bidding of Billionaires, Landlords and Warmongers - Harkin

We need working-class unity, not division. Cllr Harkin notes these rallies have preceded racist pogroms, arson, assaults and threats on healthcare workers. Migrant bashing helps exploiters keep working-class communities down. We need working-class unity, not division, to win.

25 Jul 2026

Harkin: No One Should be Taken In by the Burnham Rebrand of Failed New Labour Policies

Harkin: No One Should be Taken In by the Burnham Rebrand of Failed New Labour Policies

Shaun Harkin reminds us that Andy Burnham's election from above has only restarted the music, but it's the same old song and dance for the Labour Party.

22 Jul 2026

Harkin: Put Class Before Creed to Undermine Sectarian Antagonism

Harkin: Put Class Before Creed to Undermine Sectarian Antagonism

"They want an Us and Them narrative. They want to maintain sectarian antagonism because its erosion is a threat to their project and power. ...Youth Services has been cut. This hurts working-class children from all communities and creates a void."

19 Jul 2026

Fascist Thugs, Not Football Fans, Came to Wreck a Special Occasion

Fascist Thugs, Not Football Fans, Came to Wreck a Special Occasion

Well done to the stewards and Derry City supporters for showing so much restraint. The PSNI have questions to answer. It's well-established that a section of CSKA Sofia supporters are fascists. They are well-known for their Nazi chants and salutes, racism, violence and disruption of games. - Harkin

18 Jul 2026