2022 New Year Statement Lasair Dhearg sends revolutionary greetings to our members and supporters across Ireland and internationally. We send solidarity to the exploited peoples of the world and those who suffer at the hands of capitalism and imperialism. We ...
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PSNI shocking statistics show ‘Catholics’ twice as likely to be arrested and charged than ‘Protestants’ Discrimination against the Republican, Nationalist and Catholic community has today been confirmed by the PSNI’s own statistics as it was revealed that the force, formerly ...
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Irish Language Impasse shows Stormont Can’t Deliver! Tuesday 16th of November saw more than 50 Irish Language Advocacy groups come together to call on British Secretary of State Brandon Lewis to ‘immediately move Irish language legislation at Westminster’. As these ...
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Sinn Féin supports Special Criminal Court At today’s Sinn Féin Ard Fheis, its party membership supported a motion brought forward by the leadership of the organisation, withdrawing its opposition to the Twenty-Six Counties Special Criminal Court. The Sinn Féin Ard ...
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Sinn Féin poised to drop opposition to Special Criminal Court Sinn Féin is fast becoming Ireland’s party of ‘law and order’ as it is now positioned to end its long-standing opposition to the non-jury Special Criminal Court in the Twenty-Six ...
Read More100 Years of Partition – State opening of ‘Parliament’ marked in Belfast Bus stops across Belfast City Centre yesterday [22nd June 2021] highlighted 100 Years of Partition alongside a banner drop at Belfast City Hall, as events marking the state ...
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Housing Discrimination – 100 Years of Partition Since the inception of the partition and the creation of ‘Northern Ireland’ – housing has been used as one of the foremost tools for the dominance and survival of Unionism and the British ...
Read More‘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 ...
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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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