#BDS – Palestine Solidarity Actions in Belfast – Lasair Dhearg Lasair Dhearg activists conducted a Palestine solidarity action targeting Caterpillar in West Belfast, who are complicit in the deaths of Palestinians and the destruction of Palestinian homes through the sale ...
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BDS Belfast – Asda store confronted with Israeli Goods Lasair Dhearg activists today entered the Asda store in West Belfast, removed a small number of goods marked ‘Made in Israel’, and handed them over to store management informing them of ...
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‘Boycott Israeli Goods’ protest planned for Belfast The Palestinian people have for decades asked that the international community engage in boycott and divestment in order to affect the Zionist occupation. Now is the time to stand up and be counted, ...
Read More‘Innocent’ – Ballymurphy Massacre families vindicated Lasair Dhearg members in the Ballymurphy area stood alongside other local residents, with bin-lids and whistles, lining the streets of Ballymurphy and other nearby districts as a large convoy of vehicles toured the district ...
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Collusion – 100 Years of Partition ‘See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil’, the Japanese proverb of the Three Wise Monkeys is a paradigm to Britain’s dirty war in Ireland. The bloodied hands of Britain’s war machine and ...
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Irish Republican Hungerstrikes 1917-1981 – Pádraic MacCoitir Growing up my parents encouraged me to read books and when I was about nine or ten I joined the local library in Andersonstown. Some of the books that were in the house ...
Read MoreVol. Sean McCartney Remembered in Belfast On the 8th of May, 1921, Belfast IRA Volunteer Sean McCartney was killed on active service in an engagement with British troops on Lappinduff Mountain, Co Cavan, Ireland. Speaking from his graveside, Lasair Dhearg’s ...
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‘We will make you rue the blood spilled at Loughgall.’ On this day, the 8th of May 1987, eight volunteers of the Irish Republican Army laid preparations for the continued implementation of a strategy that would see British security forces ...
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Job Discrimination – 100 Years of Partition The partition of Ireland and the sectarian carve up of six of the nine counties of Ulster, was by no means a motiveless attempt by the British to pacify those in the north ...
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Joe McCann – British soldiers acquitted in assassination trial Commenting on the recent news today, Lasair Dhearg spokesperson Pádraic MacCoitir said: “In April 1972 Joe McCann, an Official IRA volunteer, was gunned down by the British army in Joy Street, ...
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Republicans mark Centenary at Stormont Today, Republicans gathered in the grounds of Stormont to mark the centenary of partition. Carrying flags, posters and a large banner, they assembled at the feet of Carson, overlooking East Belfast. Pól Torbóid, a spokesperson ...
Read More100 Years of Partition – 100 Years of Special Powers 100 years ago, at the inception of partition, and with the birth of the rotten little statelet they call ‘Northern Ireland’, the ruling classes sought to provide the state with ...
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International Workers’ Day 2021 This year, like in years previous, we commemorate those workers who went on strike, engaged in work stoppages, marched, picketed and rallied in demand of working-class emancipation. Whilst there will be no gathering of comrades to ...
Read MoreFrom Haiti to Nicaragua: The Struggle against Imperialism intensifies Lasair Dhearg were joined this evening by activists Danny Shaw, Kayla Pop and Yhamir Chabur, US-based activist journalists, some of whom have recently returned from Haiti and Nicaragua. They gave us ...
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Support the QUB Creche workers on strike – MacCoitir Lasair Dhearg joined the QUB creche workers, fellow trade unionists and other political activists on the picket line today outside Queen’s University, Belfast Speaking from the gathered crowd, Pádraic MacCoitir, Lasair ...
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