Hungerstrike: Support The Prisoners. Since the coronavirus outbreak there have been many restrictions imposed on communities. Many have been necessary in fighting the virus but in other cases state agents are exploiting the regulations to victimise people, particularly those within ...
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James Connolly – We Will Rise Again (1916) James Connolly, Workers’ Republic, 25 March 1916. The celebrations of the past week in Ireland are a welcome reminder of the indestructible nature of the spirit of freedom. Who would have thought ...
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You Don’t Get to be Racist and Irish. Racism is a cancerous disease that is slowly infecting our communities, an ideology that is latching itself onto working class issues such as housing, health care and employment. The rise of Racism ...
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[VIDEO] “F*ck Tribeca. We want homes, not capitalism!” We visited the offices of Sinn Féin and the DUP last night to say, “F*ck Tribeca, we want homes, not capitalism!” In light of the £500 million ‘Tribeca’ business investment forced through ...
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‘Know Your Rights’ – Lasair Dhearg Launch Digital Campaign Lasair Dhearg has announced the launch of a new digital campaign ensuring that a growing number of people are aware of their rights in various scenarios, including housing, welfare and during ...
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The Tribeca Debacle: Sinn Féin-DUP in Bed with Big Business. The Sinn Féin-DUP coalition forces £500million Tribeca development through Belfast City Council in the face of much opposition. The Council vote saw the main parties reject a motion against the ...
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Belfast: Oppose the far-right. Oppose the Yellow Vests. On Saturday 5th September, the far right extremist organisation, the Irish Freedom Party [IFP], will be organising an event at Corn Market in Belfast City Centre. The organisation’s president, Hermann Kelly, a ...
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[VIDEO] Lasair Dhearg oppose Fascist ‘Irish Freedom Party’ Lasair Dhearg today opposed the fascist Irish Freedom Party, as they attempted to organise under a broad front they term ‘Yellow Vests’. Pól Torbóid, Lasair Dhearg spokesperson said, “Our activists gathered today ...
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PSNI face off with children in Divis, Belfast. Today, scores of heavily clad and armed PSNI personnel faced off against young teenagers and pre-teens over wood in Divis, Belfast. Since August 1969 the hated RUC has attacked communities in Republican ...
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Solidarity Action with Direct Provision Hunger Strikers [VIDEO] Lasair Dhearg activists have carried out a solidarity action in support of the residents of the Skellig Star direct provision Centre in Cahersiveen, Co Kerry, who in recent days commenced a hunger ...
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#OTD On This Day – Oswald Mosley On this day, 1962, fascist and leader of the British Union of Fascists, Oswald Mosley attempts to march in Manchester. Although guarded by his fascist Blackshirts and police, Mosley was greeted just as ...
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End Direct Provision – Support the Cahersiveen Hungerstrikers! Lasair Dhearg stands in solidarity with the Asylum seekers of Skellig Star direct provision Centre in Cahersiveen, Co Kerry who have today embarked on hunger strike over living conditions and food rations. ...
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#OTD On This Day – Howth Gun Running #OTD 1913 a shipment of 1500 Mauser rifles arrived in Howth harbour transported from Hamburg, Germany via ‘the Asgard’ – Erskine Childers private yacht. The rifles were to be used in the Easter ...
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Today, a range of Republican organisations, including Lasair Dhearg, confronted the fascist Irish Freedom Party on the streets of Belfast. The IFP is a racist organisation defining itself as ‘nationalist’; ideologically aligned to the ‘national socialism’ of hitler and his ...
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Fifty years: The Falls Curfew. “Move on you Irish Bastard…there are not enough of you dead”. These were the words uttered to a dying Charles O’Neill as he lay mortally wounded on the Falls Road moments after being impacted by ...
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