Thousands of education and health care workers are out on strike to demand that Stormont and Westminster end their ongoing attacks on public services and worker’s wages. Speaking from outside Belfast City Hall, Lasair Dhearg Belfast Vice-Secretary Pádraig Scott said, ...
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Local residents have noted with growing concern the use of community centres and youth clubs in the Lenadoon and Colin areas by armed PSNI personnel. Lasair Dhearg spokesperson Pádraic MacCoitir said, “The PSNI attended Saints Youth Club in Twinbrook, Colin ...
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Following the appearance of racist far right stickers in Belfast, Lasair Dhearg activists were out in recent days distributing material to make it clear that Belfast is a welcoming community that rejects hate. The far right are exploiting the housing ...
Read MoreThousands gathered on Sunday to join the Bloody Sunday ‘March for Justice’ as it made its way from Creggan to the Bogside in Derry. 51 years on and the families of the fourteen slain on Derry’s streets by Britain’s armed ...
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As another year comes to a close Lasair Dhearg sends revolutionary greetings to all of our members and supporters across Ireland and internationally. We extend our solidarity to all like-minded Socialist Republican activists and organisations, and our thoughts are with ...
Read More100 years ago today, counter-revolutionary Free State forces executed IRA members Liam Mellows, Dick Barrett, Joe McKelvey and Rory O’Connor. The ‘Four Martyrs’ were commemorated by Lasair Dhearg in Milltown Cemetery, Belfast, to mark the centenary, where a wreath was ...
Read MoreScores gathered at the graveside of Winifred Carney on Saturday [19th November] to mark the 79th anniversary of her death. A trade union organiser, member of Cumann na mBan and the Irish Citizen Army, she is buried in Milltown Cemetery ...
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Many residents of Strabane will remember the looming eyesore that was once the British army checkpoint at what’s locally known as the ‘camel’s hump’. Located on the Lifford road between Strabane, Co. Tyrone and Lifford, Co. Donegal, the once very ...
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The following piece is delivered by Pádraic MacCoitir, blanketman and political ex-prisoner. How often have we heard the country we live in being referred to as a ‘democracy’?; Because we have the right to vote and in theory make those ...
Read MoreA large crowd gathered at Belfast’s International Wall on the Falls Road yesterday (02/10/2022) to voice their opposition to the ongoing cost of living crisis. Attendees filed out on to the Falls Road for a white line picket stretching from ...
Read MoreToday, correspondence has been sent to every school and education facility across the Six Counties regarding the ongoing use of youth spaces by the PSNI, and their implementation of a strategy aimed at grabbing the ‘hearts and minds’ of our ...
Read MoreThousands gathered in Derry yesterday (Saturday Aug 27) for one of the biggest Foyle Pride parades ever, as Lasair Dhearg activists unveiled a number of new banners along the route. As the parade made its way through Shipquay Gate, one ...
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As capitalism tightens its grips on working class communities, families are feeling the pinch further in a range of areas, one being the rising cost of basic necessity and food provision. This week the Department for the Economy in the ...
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August 3rd was the 106th anniversary of the execution of Roger Casement, which saw it commemorated in the grounds of the social club named after him. Members of Lasair Dhearg joined dozens of people as they walked from the front ...
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