The Black Panther Party (Originally named the Black Panther Party for Self-Defence) was formed in October 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton. The pair met at Meritt College in Oakland and soon developed a close friendship. The Party ...
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A notion that seems somewhat lost amongst the working class of Ireland as of late is the study of the natural history of the ruling class. Toiling away throughout the week, doing just enough to make it through to their ...
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“The Irish question has, in fact, a much deeper source than a mere difference of opinion on forms of government. Its real origin and inner meaning lay in the circumstance that the two opposing nations held fundamentally different ideas upon ...
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As mainstream political parties continue with their push to normalise the PSNI and implement their ‘hearts and minds’ strategy, they have now set their sights on disgracing the proud history of St. Comgall’s School in West Belfast. St. Comgall’s will ...
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Down GAA have acquired a lease on land in Ballykinler owned by the British Ministry of Defence (MOD). This same site was used by the MOD to train Unionist death squads to murder nationalists in the local area. Abercorn Barracks, ...
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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 gathered on Sunday to join the Bloody Sunday ‘March for Justice’ as it made its way from Creggan to the Bogside in Derry. 51 years on and the families of the fourteen slain on Derry’s streets by Britain’s armed ...
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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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August 3rd was the 106th anniversary of the execution of Roger Casement, which saw it commemorated in the grounds of the social club named after him. Members of Lasair Dhearg joined dozens of people as they walked from the front ...
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On this day in 1991: IRA Mortars Land on Downing Street. At approximately 10am on the morning of the 7th of February 1991, as British Prime Minister John Major sat down with his War Cabinet in the Cabinet room of ...
Read MoreBloody Sunday 50th Anniversary March for Justice The Bloody Sunday 50th Anniversary March for Justice wound its way through the streets of Free Derry yesterday as thousands gathered to continue the demand for justice for those innocent unarmed civilians so ...
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Five Decades of Injustice: Bloody Sunday People will travel from across Ireland and beyond next week to gather on the streets of Free Derry. The Bloody Sunday march for justice will mark 50 years since 14 unarmed and innocent civilians ...
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