Members of Lasair Dhearg have in recent days (Thurs 13th Feb 2025) erected a number of posters in Kilwilkie, Lurgan, aimed at countering the PSNI’s hearts and minds strategy of ‘normalisation’, as the force continues to roll out its recruitment ...
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‘Normalisation’ – The PSNI is Not a Normal Police Force ‘A new era’ and ‘a police force for all’ were the buzzwords of the year, when the ‘Police Service of Northern Ireland’ [PSNI] was formally constituted in 2001. Their inception ...
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Journalists in the Six Counties are under attack. Their phones are being tampered with by the PSNI and MI5. This isn’t surprising to those familiar with these organisations’ tactics. Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney produced a ground-breaking documentary, No Stone ...
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Almost 200 ‘Know Your Rights’ info cards were distributed at a public meeting yesterday in Belfast’s Conway Mill, which was organised by Lasair Dhearg. The pocket-sized cards are designed to give basic information and advice to anyone being subject to ...
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Lasair Dhearg’s inaugural Socialist Republican Conference took place on Saturday (October 7th) in Conway Mill on Belfast’s Falls Road. Over 70 members, delegates, and visitors from across Ireland attended the all-day conference. Among the crowd were trade unionists, political ex-prisoners, ...
Read MoreA British Army Reserve centre in occupied Ireland was paid a visit by Derry Lasair Dhearg activists in recent days to highlight the ongoing presence of occupation forces here. Derry’s Limavady Road facility is occupied by Britain’s ‘Royal Logistics Corps’ ...
Read MoreOver the past number of months posters recruiting for the ‘Prison Service’ in the Six Counties have appeared across Republican areas, most notably in Belfast and Derry, as members of Lasair Dhearg have continually marked them for removal. Pádraic MacCoitir, ...
Read MoreOver 100 gathered alongside a heavy press presence at Belfast’s International Wall on the Falls Road as the British coronation was underway to send a clear message to the media and state political parties that we do not accept poverty, ...
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As part of the Good Friday Agreement the ‘Independent Commission on Policing…’ in the Six Counties was established, intended as a major step in the ‘peace process’. Chaired by Conservative politician ‘Lord Patten’, the former ‘Governor of Hong Kong’, it ...
Read MoreHundreds gathered in Milltown Cemetery on Easter Monday to mark the 107th anniversary of the 1916 Rising. Those gathered were addressed by former IRA volunteer John Crawley, Republican ex-Prisoner and author of ‘The Yank’, who delivered the main oration. It ...
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From the perspective of the British state, you could easily assume that the Good Friday Agreement was designed to achieve, and indeed it did achieve, many things. The cumulative financial cost is said to have run both the British and ...
Read MoreOn the 9th of July 1972 the British Army’s Parachute Regiment brutally gunned down and killed five people on the streets of Springhill and Westwork in West Belfast, wounding many others. Many of those killed and injured were teenagers, some ...
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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 ...
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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