Category: North of Ireland
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PSNI hypocrisy in Derry: UDA flags fly free, Palestine solidarity criminalised
Since British Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and her crony pals in Westminster introduced legislation that categorised Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation, there have been hundreds of arrests made across Britain and the North of Ireland.
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“Britannia waives the rules”: Labour, internments and the Legacy Act
In yet another brazen attempt to shield its imperialist crimes, the British government has announced its intention to ram through “primary legislation” aimed at blocking hundreds – including former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams – from seeking compensation for their illegal internment during the Troubles. This latest episode in the thorny saga of the Legacy…
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Ballymena: Unionist establishment reap what they sow
Far-right mobs have taken to the streets in race riots which have swept across Ballymena, targeting the homes of foreign families with arson attacks. The outrageous scenes of violence from loyalist thugs – almost certainly coordinated with the help of the UDA – are reminiscent of the pogroms which, in 1969, sparked the Troubles. The…
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Rotten to the core: the British state, child abuse, and the Kincora cover-up
A new book by Belfast-based investigative journalist Chris Moore casts a searing light over the sexual abuses of a ring of establishment paedophiles, and their scandalous, systematic cover-up orchestrated at the highest level of the British state.
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Kneecap: who are the real terrorists?
The British establishment have ramped up their witch hunt against Kneecap. Band member Mo Chara was charged with a terror offence for arousing “reasonable suspicion that he is a supporter of a proscribed organisation, namely Hezbollah.” These spurious charges are a blatant attack on artistic expression and the Palestine movement in particular. Their “crime” is…
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Stormont reel back rehab centre in Derry: no money for healthcare, plenty for warfare!
The reality of the situation in Derry is broken promise after broken promise from both Stormont and Westminster. The latest outrage? Yet another decision to abandon the most vulnerable in our city.
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Kneecap witch hunt: the establishment are the real terrorists
Irish rap group Kneecap have been victims of a vicious smear campaign for supporting Palestine. This reeks of imperialist hypocrisy. It is the capitalist system and its politicians that have blood on their hands. Kneecap have nothing to apologise for.
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Riots in Belfast: Smash the Far Right!
The far-right riots that took place in Belfast and the paltry response of the police to them, have made it abundantly clear – workers and youth must look to themselves in mass militant organised action to eradicate this scourge once and for all.
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New Issue of the Revolutionary Communist out – The Old World is Dying: Fight for Communism!
The second issue of the Revolutionary Communist is now out! Read the editorial of this issue below, and get in touch to order your copy now! You can also pick up a yearly subscription for 10 euros, or pay a solidarity subscription of 20 euros (or more) to support the communist press.
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Ireland after the Ceasefire
30 years ago, on 31 August 1994 the Provisional IRA declared a ceasefire. 25 years of armed struggle had failed to bring the unification of Ireland any closer. The ceasefire (which despite an interruption between 1996 and 1997 would eventually lead to the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998) was an admission on…