This past year has been a notable one for Lasair Dhearg as an organisation and indeed for the broader struggle in Ireland. Over the last twelve months our activists have been busy campaigning. During that time the ongoing crises in ...
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Lasair Dhearg’s inaugural Socialist Republican Conference took place on Saturday (October 7th) in Conway Mill on Belfast’s Falls Road. Over 70 members, delegates, and visitors from across Ireland attended the all-day conference. Among the crowd were trade unionists, political ex-prisoners, ...
Read MoreOver 100 gathered alongside a heavy press presence at Belfast’s International Wall on the Falls Road as the British coronation was underway to send a clear message to the media and state political parties that we do not accept poverty, ...
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Within years of the GFA being signed, global foreign direct investment had its eyes firmly on the prize – the Six Counties were ripe with opportunity and big business could be assured that whatever ‘investment’ they pumped in, they would ...
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Lasair Dhearg sends solidarity greetings to all anti-imperialist activists across Ireland and beyond who continue to organise against the forces of occupation and capitalism, and we stand in solidarity with our fellow workers as they continue to toil within and ...
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From the perspective of the British state, you could easily assume that the Good Friday Agreement was designed to achieve, and indeed it did achieve, many things. The cumulative financial cost is said to have run both the British and ...
Read MoreThousands of education and health care workers are out on strike to demand that Stormont and Westminster end their ongoing attacks on public services and worker’s wages. Speaking from outside Belfast City Hall, Lasair Dhearg Belfast Vice-Secretary Pádraig Scott said, ...
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Following the appearance of racist far right stickers in Belfast, Lasair Dhearg activists were out in recent days distributing material to make it clear that Belfast is a welcoming community that rejects hate. The far right are exploiting the housing ...
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As another year comes to a close Lasair Dhearg sends revolutionary greetings to all of our members and supporters across Ireland and internationally. We extend our solidarity to all like-minded Socialist Republican activists and organisations, and our thoughts are with ...
Read MoreScores gathered at the graveside of Winifred Carney on Saturday [19th November] to mark the 79th anniversary of her death. A trade union organiser, member of Cumann na mBan and the Irish Citizen Army, she is buried in Milltown Cemetery ...
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The following piece is delivered by Pádraic MacCoitir, blanketman and political ex-prisoner. How often have we heard the country we live in being referred to as a ‘democracy’?; Because we have the right to vote and in theory make those ...
Read MoreA large crowd gathered at Belfast’s International Wall on the Falls Road yesterday (02/10/2022) to voice their opposition to the ongoing cost of living crisis. Attendees filed out on to the Falls Road for a white line picket stretching from ...
Read MoreA short six minute documentary detailing the facts behind the so-called crisis. Will stream across social media at 7pm on Thursday the 22nd of September.
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As capitalism tightens its grips on working class communities, families are feeling the pinch further in a range of areas, one being the rising cost of basic necessity and food provision. This week the Department for the Economy in the ...
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