Saoradh stands firmly with the health unions and the countless frontline workers now balloting for strike action across the occupied Six Counties. We extend our full solidarity to all those who keep our hospitals and care services running, the very backbone of our health system.
These workers have endured years of underfunding, chronic understaffing, and political neglect. While politicians and bureaucrats sit comfortably in offices and talk of “budget constraints,” it is the working class, those who treat the sick, clean the wards, and keep patients alive, who are left to bear the real cost.
The struggle of health workers is about dignity, respect, and fairness. It is about refusing to allow the capitalist system to grind down those who serve the people.
When health workers are forced to strike, it is not out of greed, it is out of necessity. It is the system itself that has failed, not the workers.
Saoradh believes that the fight of the health unions is part of the wider struggle of the Irish working class, a struggle against exploitation, inequality, and colonial mismanagement. Our health service, like every part of our society, is being squeezed by Westminster austerity and Stormont inaction. Workers are being told to do more for less, while private profiteers and foreign corporations are handed contracts and tax breaks.
We call on all sections of the working class to stand shoulder to shoulder with health workers. Their fight is our fight.
Every picket line, every ballot, and every act of defiance in defence of fair pay and decent conditions is a blow struck for the rights of all workers across Ireland.
Saoradh reaffirms its commitment to a Socialist Republic, a nation where healthcare is a right, not a privilege, and where those who care for the people are valued, not exploited.
Solidarity with the health unions. Solidarity with the working class.
Ní saoirse go saoirse na n-oibrithe — There is no freedom without the freedom of the workers.
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