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 ...
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The following piece was written by Pádraic MacCoitir, Blanketman and Republican ex-Prisoner: I was in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh with hundreds of other Republican prisoners when the IRA called its ceasefire on the 31st August 1994. Although we weren’t ...
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 ...
Read MoreThousands 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 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 ...
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