Donegal families affected by mica – 100% Redress! No Less! Yesterday’s mass protests by the people of Donegal and Mayo only go to show the power of mass organisation. People who’s lives are consumed on an hourly basis by the ...
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‘The houses are there but the rich have the keys’ – Lasair Dhearg Derry The most recent statistics for Derry, indicate that there are 2,732 homeless people here. That’s over two and a half thousand people who have nowhere to ...
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‘Drugs, Addiction & Decriminalisation’ – Lasair Dhearg announce new policy Following a period of internal debate and discussion, Lasair Dhearg members have agreed upon a new policy paper titled ‘Drugs, Addiction & Decriminalisation’. It is quite clear that various governments ...
Read More100 Years of Partition marked in Derry On this day in 1921 the ‘Northern Ireland Parliament’ was formed. A significant event during the partition of Ireland and the continued occupation of the Six Counties. Lasair Dhearg in Derry marked the ...
Read MoreDerry Lasair Dhearg launched. Join Us. Lasair Dhearg activists in Derry have launched with a day of action highlighting the failure of the Six County state to adequately deal with the issues facing the people of Ireland. With rampant homelessness, ...
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‘Derry’s housing crisis easily solved’ – Alannagh Doherty According to the most recent statistics, the housing issue in Derry is ‘easily solved’ says Lasair Dhearg. Speaking on the issue, Derry Lasair Dhearg activist Alannagh Doherty said, “The most recent statistics ...
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Language Rights Denied – 100 Years of Partition For more than six centuries, British policy in Ireland has been aimed at the destruction of the Irish language. Partition has failed the language in both the Twenty Six and the Six ...
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‘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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On this day in 1895, Oscar Wilde was sentenced to two years hard labour, the maximum penalty for the conviction of “gross indecency” with other men. The Irish author, playwright and poet was persecuted for his homosexuality, which at the ...
Read More‘End Israeli Apartheid’ – Ireland stands with Palestine on global day of action Thousands gathered across Ireland [Sat 22nd May 2021] to show their support for the Palestinian people living under the jackboot of the apartheid Zionist state. As Lasair ...
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The Irish Land Question – James Connolly, Workers’ Republic, 1898. For very many years we have seen the London Parliament sending forth Land Act after Land Act, each and every one of them heralded by a declaration that it embodied ...
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Zionism is Anti-Semitism “This is the kernel of the problem, as we see it: the Jews comprise a distinctive element among the nations under which they dwell, and as such can neither assimilate nor be readily digested by any nation. Hence ...
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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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Nakba – Ireland on the march for Palestine Ireland is marching for the Palestinian people today [15th of May 2021], amid ongoing attacks on Gaza and occupied Palestine. Today marks the 73rd anniversary of the ‘Nakba’, the Palestinian ‘catastrophe’. The ...
Read More#BDS Belfast – Protest highlights Israeli Goods Scores of pro-Palestine supporters gathered at the doors of Asda in West Belfast today [Saturday, 15th of May 2021] to protest at the continued sale of goods marked ‘Made in Israel’. The Palestinian ...
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