Election Communication for Gerry Cullen Campaign, General Election 2024
Month: June 2024
21st June 2024
Cross-community Labour Alternative’s Gerry Cullen calls for urgent investment in mental health services for young people
Young people aged 19 are being kept on the CAMHS service simply because there is so little support available for young adults
CCLA call for funding for Public Health Agency to research impact of online abuse and misuse of social media on mental health, especially of young people
Continue readingThe outcome of the UK General Election will be decided in a battle between the Labour Party and the Conservative Party in England, Scotland and Wales. Neither party will win any seats in Northern Ireland. The Labour Party-certain to win after 14 years of austerity and government chaos-has members in Northern Ireland but does not contest elections. The Conservatives are standing but without enthusiastic central party backing and will make little impact.
The election instead will be dominated by five parties, four of which are based on sectarian division. The Democratic Unionist Party is the largest unionist party though it faces competition from the smaller Ulster Unionist Party for one of its eight seats (South Antrim). Sinn Fein has seven seats and is the largest nationalist party. The Social Democratic and Labour Party goes into the election holding two seats. It had a good election in 2019, in part because Sinn Fein’s policy of not attending the UK Parliament allows it to win voters who would normally vote Sinn Fein.
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Cross-community Labour Alternative Press Release: Environment
Gerry Cullen Cross-community Labour candidate in Fermanagh-South Tyrone calls out environmental vandalism
Continue readingGerry Cullen Election Leaflet, General Election, 2024
Support Our Campaign in Fermanagh and South Tyrone
Cross-Community Labour brings together trade union, labour and socialist activists, and environmental and community campaigners.
We believe that it is only through uniting working-class people that can we defend our public services and our living standards. Cross-Community Labour stands alongside every community campaign and every group of workers on strike.
We believe in fighting for every gain today. However, we will always face the same problems unless there is major change. This means the reorganisation of society under democratic socialist principles. The multinational corporations and big business which control most of the economy should be brought into public ownership and decisions should be made democratically to provide for a better life for all.
We are in favour of mutual respect and compromise on divisive issues. We support and work with trade unionists and campaigners North and South, and in Scotland, England and Wales. We are internationalists and support and link up with activists across the world. Together we can forge a better, shared future where the democratic rights of every individual and all communities will be guaranteed.
The Anti-Sectarian Left Tradition
We are part of the strong anti-sectarian left tradition which exists everywhere including Fermanagh and Tyrone. Cross-community socialists have previously won council seats in both Enniskillen and Dungannon, the two main towns in the constituency.
Davy Kettyles held a council seat in Enniskillen in the 1980s and 1990s standing first for the Workers Party and later as a Progressive Socialist. More recently Donal O’Cofaigh won a seat in the 2019 election for Cross-Community Labour.
Jack Hassard, a Protestant working-class activist was the voice of opposition to both unionism and nationalism on Dungannon Urban Council in the 1960’s and the 1970s as a Northern Ireland Labour Party councillor.
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