Category: North of Ireland
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Ulster University lay-offs: kick the capitalists off campus!
In the latest round of attacks on the education sector, Ulster University has just announced plans to cut 450 jobs from a total of 3,100 staff. This represents a whopping 14 percent of the total workforce of the university. The consequences will be felt not only by hundreds of workers and their families, but also…
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“Not One More” – fight the epidemic of violence against women!
On Saturday, April 25, thousands of outraged workers and young people filled the streets of Belfast, rallying under the call “Not One More” in response to the ongoing epidemic of femicide, which has claimed 30 women’s lives in the North of Ireland since 2020. In a chilling continuation of this violence, just prior to the…
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Mitchell and Epstein: clear out this stinking system!
The saying goes “the bigger they are, the harder they fall”. But for the big bust of George Mitchell at Queen’s University Belfast, there was no fall… In fact it simply vanished, without a trace! George Mitchell – former US senator, ‘peace’ envoy, Chancellor of QUB, and celebrated midwife of the Good Friday Agreement –…
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Boutcher and the RIC – who are the real terrorists?
Jon Boutcher, the PSNI’s chief constable, while speaking at a commission on the Kenova report, remarked: “I was at an event on Sunday for … Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) officers murdered before the creation of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) by terrorism.” We hope the irony will not be lost on our readers. While denying…
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Stormont: austerity without end
Much to everyone’s expectation, Westminster’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves has once again left the North of Ireland out in the cold to fend for itself. The latest budget, like many others before it, merely tip toes around the profound issues facing the North. Public infrastructure is beyond breaking point and in complete shambles.…
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Kenova and Britain’s dirty war
After nearly a decade and more than £47 million of public money, Operation Kenova – the criminal investigation into the British state agent known as Stakeknife – has delivered its final report. Yet for all this time and expense, the inquiry has now concluded without officially naming, charging, or holding anyone to account. The cat…
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50 years since the Dublin airport bombing
Fifty years ago this winter, on 29 November 1975, a bomb tore through Dublin airport during the busy afternoon rush. Luggage handler John Hayes was killed instantly, and nine others were injured. Once again, Dublin was the target of loyalist paramilitary violence. A second bomb detonated shortly afterwards. By that point, however, the airport had…
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Bloody Sunday: fifty years on
Today marks 54 years since Bloody Sunday, when soldiers of the British paratroop regiment opened fire on a peaceful civil rights march in the North of Ireland. 13 people were killed immediately, and a 14th victim died later as a result of his injuries. For over half a century, the British state has covered up…
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Givan’s ‘fact-finding’ trip and the DUP’s woes
DUP Education Minister Paul Givan has sparked significant and justified anger for partaking in what appears to be an Israeli-sponsored trip to a school in the occupied territory of Jerusalem District – publicised shamelessly through official government social media! This was rightly seen by many as nothing but a cheap attempt to whitewash the ongoing…
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Spying, Lying, and political policing: the rotten core of the PSNI
The release of the 200-page McCullough Report has exposed the depth of politically motivated policing that exists in the PSNI. Spying, lying and methods illegal even by the standards of capitalist law are described as “widespread or systemic” in this rotten police force. The report found 21 instances of illegal use of journalists’ communications data…