As children die in the English channel, humanity dies with them. In recent days deaths in the English channel have made headlines as human beings flee poverty and war, and seek a better life elsewhere. Among the dead were families, ...
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Irish Language Impasse shows Stormont Can’t Deliver! Tuesday 16th of November saw more than 50 Irish Language Advocacy groups come together to call on British Secretary of State Brandon Lewis to ‘immediately move Irish language legislation at Westminster’. As these ...
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‘Support Workers in Struggle this Winter’ – Pól Torbóid Yesterday (18th of November) saw the successful resolution of an industrial dispute with workers at Glen Dimplex LTD based in Portadown. Despite Glen Dimplex LTD having a turnover of £659m in ...
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Sinn Féin supports Special Criminal Court At today’s Sinn Féin Ard Fheis, its party membership supported a motion brought forward by the leadership of the organisation, withdrawing its opposition to the Twenty-Six Counties Special Criminal Court. The Sinn Féin Ard ...
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Sinn Féin poised to drop opposition to Special Criminal Court Sinn Féin is fast becoming Ireland’s party of ‘law and order’ as it is now positioned to end its long-standing opposition to the non-jury Special Criminal Court in the Twenty-Six ...
Read MoreMargaret Skinnider remembered in Dublin and Coatbridge on 50th Anniversary Margaret Skinnider remembered on her 50th anniversary by Lasair Dhearg in Dublin and Coatbridge.Skinnider was veteran of the 1916 Rising, a suffragette, a republican, a socialist, trade unionist and a ...
Read MoreClinton inauguration at Queen’s University Belfast marked by protest A large crowd gathered to meet Hillary Clinton at Queen’s University in Belfast on Friday [24th September 2021], to protest her inauguration as Chancellor of the University. Lasair Dhearg’s Pól Torbóid, ...
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Annual FIBI Sliabh Fea commemoration honours the late Eddie O’Neill By Pádraic MacCoitir “I can’t remember exactly when I became aware of the Spanish Civil War but it was years ago. I’d read bits and pieces about IRA volunteers who ...
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Post-Covid: A new pandemic threatens the Irish working class. It is already clear as we move into the latter months of 2021, slowly marching from the fog of the coronavirus crisis, that a new pandemic threatens the working class across ...
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Hillary Clinton: Belfast says no to war criminals! Lasair Dhearg are calling upon all anti-Imperialist, socialist, anti-racist, and Republican activists across Belfast to ensure the inauguration of U.S imperialist warmonger Hillary Clinton as QUB Chancellor does not go unopposed! Queen’s ...
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Salvador Allende – Last Words to the Nation, September 11th, 1973. This speech was delivered at 9:10 am on September 11th, 1973, in the midst of an ultimately successful US-sponsored coup d’etat against the democratically-elected government of Chile. Barricaded inside ...
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Socialism or barbarism Yesterday’s UN report [09/08/2021] on Climate Change has been labelled a ‘code red for humanity’. It has asserted “that human-induced climate change is the main driver of heatwaves and is likely the main driver for extreme rain. ...
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Lasair Dhearg Derry are to gather this Sunday 15th of August at 12.30pm for a small wreath laying ceremony to mark the 50th Anniversary of IRA Volunteer Eamonn Lafferty. Eamonn was the first Derry Brigade Volunteer to be killed by ...
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Internment: 50 years on Today is the 50th anniversary of the introduction of Internment to the occupied six-counties in 1971. Reflecting on that period, ex-political prisoner and Lasair Dhearg spokesperson Pádraic Mac Coitir stated: “Although I was young I remember ...
Read MoreBallymurphy Massacre march demands justice. Hundreds gathered today [08/08/2021] to stand with the families of those slain by British armed forces in August of 1971, and to demand justice for those so brutally slaughtered during what is known as the ...
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