Peace deal offers sectarian war or sectarian peace
The huge vote, North and South, in favour of the 'Good Friday Agreement' shows that the vast majority do not want a return to pre-ceasefire violence. Can this agreement get to the root of the...
View ArticleRoots of the conflict - Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association
In August of 1968 NICRA called its first march. 2,500 marched from Coalisland to Dungannon to protest against local housing discrimination.read more
View ArticleIreland, Sinn Fein and the peace talks
The peace talks represent the ditching of Sinn Féin's left gloss and a return to good old nationalist politics, pure and simple. They started with the Hume - Adams dialogue, a still secret document but...
View ArticleThe real difference is not between Catholic & Protestant but between rich and...
THERE IS LITTLE hope of a new IRA ceasefire, the loyalist death squads may restart a full campaign of assassinations and terror. We may be heading back to a situation of bloody murders every other day....
View ArticleMarching to nowhere - Stirring Up Sectarian Hatred
While we should oppose the Orange Orders parades where ever local people reject them (and our ideal would be for 'Protestant areas' to also oppose them), there are real problems with the way these...
View ArticleThe Orange Order: An enemy of all workers
The reality of the Orange Order is that it is a counter-revolutionary institution set up and maintained to target not just Catholics but also 'disloyal' Protestants. It's formation and spread was...
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Haiti - a history of intervention, occupation and resistance
Since the start of the great anti-slavery republican insurrection nearly 220 years ago, Haiti has been presented as a dangerous place incapable of running its own affairs and requiring foreign...
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Haiti: Intervention and Imperialism
The horrific death toll from the earthquake in Haiti briefly focused the world’s attention on the plight of the Haitian people. The earthquake was a natural disaster coming on top of decades of human...
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Covering the Israeli attack on the Freedom Flotilla and responses in Ireland
This collection of articles covers the attack by the Israeli military on the Freedom Flotilla which was attempting to break the siege of Gaza. The muderous attack resulted in the deaths of at least...
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Hundreds protest war-criminal Tony Blair in Dublin
At 9:30 Saturday 4th August people gathered on O'Connell Street In Dublin to protest against the presence of war criminal and ex British prime-minister Tony Blair. Blair arrived at Easons at around...
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The republican tradition - a place to build from?
Ireland has an indigenous revolutionary tradition that successfully mobilized tens if not hundreds of thousands in the struggle for more freedom over the 200 years since 1798. Irish republicanism has...
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Dublin New Years eve Solidarity rally with Gaza
New Years Eve in Dublin saw a gathering on the Hapenny bridge in Dublin to mark the anniversary of 'Operation Lead' when the Israeli attack on Gaza killed more that 1400 people. Meanwhile in Israel...
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Palestine solidarity rallies support Flotilla to Gaza and demand Riverdance...
Over 200 people took part in co-ordinated rallies and marches in Dublin last night (28 June 2011) to express solidarity with Palestine through support for the 2nd 'Stay Human' Freedom Flotilla to Gaza...
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As Gaddafi falls - Lessons from Libya - imperialism, anti-imperialism &...
The sudden end of the Gaddafi regime some 6 months after the start of the Libyan revolt leaves some difficult questions unanswered for the left. Gaddafi’s determination to physically crush the revolt...
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Bloody Sunday in Derry - Origins & Consequences of a Massacre
On the 30th January 1972 British soldiers opened fire on protesters in the city of Derry, north-west Ireland. Twenty six unarmed protesters were shot, 13 died immediately or within hours, one more died...
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Ireland, Expelling the Israel Ambassador (not) and abstaining on UN War Crime...
People in Ireland have been protesting the Israeli assault on Gaza in every city and many towns across the country. Online polls show a majority want the government to take action through expelling...
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If Ireland was treated like Palestine - An alternate history
For the size of its population Ireland has seen very large Gaza solidarity demonstrations. It is also one of the few places in the world outside the USA where there has been public displays of support...
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The Warsaw Ghetto and the assault on Gaza - is there anything in the comparison?
The text below is translated from the poster at the centre of this image of the destruction of Gaza by the Israeli state. But it refers not to this horror but another in 1943 when the Nazis crushed the...
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A Grand Day Out - an attempted visit to Kobane
“Ed, that’s soldier’s headed our way, we’re gonna have to move”. Sure enough the soldier is trudging down the road towards us, unshouldering his rifle and looking, even from this distance, distinctly...
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Rojava - Revolution Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Revolutions are seldom made in favourable circumstances. Russia 1917 emerged from the mass slaughter of WWI and the disintegration of an economy under the pressure of the supply demands of that war....
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