‘Derry & Strabane poverty rates show Stormont Can’t Deliver’ – Caolán Doherty Recent statistics published by the Department for Communities (DfC) in the Six Counties have highlighted the extreme rates of poverty across the state. Among their findings was that ...
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Gender Discrimination – 100 Years of Partition With the partitioning of Ireland, Catholics, Nationalists and Republicans all effectively became second-class citizens, ruled by a sectarian Unionist government hostile to their very existence. However, regardless of political beliefs or religious denomination, ...
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Collusion – 100 Years of Partition ‘See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil’, the Japanese proverb of the Three Wise Monkeys is a paradigm to Britain’s dirty war in Ireland. The bloodied hands of Britain’s war machine and ...
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Irish Republican Hungerstrikes 1917-1981 – Pádraic MacCoitir Growing up my parents encouraged me to read books and when I was about nine or ten I joined the local library in Andersonstown. Some of the books that were in the house ...
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‘We will make you rue the blood spilled at Loughgall.’ On this day, the 8th of May 1987, eight volunteers of the Irish Republican Army laid preparations for the continued implementation of a strategy that would see British security forces ...
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Job Discrimination – 100 Years of Partition The partition of Ireland and the sectarian carve up of six of the nine counties of Ulster, was by no means a motiveless attempt by the British to pacify those in the north ...
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Joe McCann – British soldiers acquitted in assassination trial Commenting on the recent news today, Lasair Dhearg spokesperson Pádraic MacCoitir said: “In April 1972 Joe McCann, an Official IRA volunteer, was gunned down by the British army in Joy Street, ...
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Republicans mark Centenary at Stormont Today, Republicans gathered in the grounds of Stormont to mark the centenary of partition. Carrying flags, posters and a large banner, they assembled at the feet of Carson, overlooking East Belfast. Pól Torbóid, a spokesperson ...
Read More100 Years of Partition – 100 Years of Special Powers 100 years ago, at the inception of partition, and with the birth of the rotten little statelet they call ‘Northern Ireland’, the ruling classes sought to provide the state with ...
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International Workers’ Day 2021 This year, like in years previous, we commemorate those workers who went on strike, engaged in work stoppages, marched, picketed and rallied in demand of working-class emancipation. Whilst there will be no gathering of comrades to ...
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Support the QUB Creche workers on strike – MacCoitir Lasair Dhearg joined the QUB creche workers, fellow trade unionists and other political activists on the picket line today outside Queen’s University, Belfast Speaking from the gathered crowd, Pádraic MacCoitir, Lasair ...
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100 Years of Partition – Campaign rolls out in Belfast Lasair Dhearg activists have been out this past week erecting posters across the city as part of their ‘100 Years of Partition’ campaign designed to counter the six-county state’s media ...
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Special Powers – 100 Years of Partition At the inception of partition and the birth of the rotten little statelet they call ‘Northern Ireland’, the ruling class sought to provide the state with as much regulatory and security powers as ...
Read More‘100 Years of Partition’ – Lasair Dhearg launch campaign to mark state centenary. Pól Torbóid, a spokesperson for the organisation, said, “Over the next number of months, our campaign is intended to highlight the real story of this rotten little ...
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Ban Conversion Therapy – Smash Homophobia Alána Ní Dochartaigh, Lasair Dhearg activist from Derry, writes: “In recent months there has been much discourse on social media concerning gay conversion therapy – a religious pseudoscientific practice aimed to convert or change ...
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