Yesterday marked 26 years since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement. As Lasair Dhearg has previously pointed out (here), this agreement has brought a quarter of a century of pain and misery on the working-class. The Good Friday Agreement ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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Food provision is a basic human need and therefore should be a basic human right. However, under capitalism we are seeing people, in countries that are defined as developed, going hungry in silence as they choose to ‘heat or eat’ ...
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Lasair Dhearg’s Pól Torbóid delivered a short address to a seminar in Armagh [Saturday 28th May] organised by the Peadar O’Donnell Socialist Republican Forum where he detailed Lasair Dhearg’s view on the current state of Socialist Republicanism across Ireland, the ...
Read MoreIn recent days Lasair Dhearg activists systematically removed a significant number of boards across Derry City which were erected by unscrupulous profiteers trying to buy homes from those facing financial difficulty. Typically, properties would be bought at significantly below the ...
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 ...
Read MoreVulture Housing Banners Removed in Belfast A number of banners have appeared across parts of West Belfast in recent days, an area with arguably the biggest demand for housing in the Six Counties and waiting lists that are years long. ...
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Lasair Dhearg relaunches Supporters Network Lasair Dhearg has today announced plans to restructure and repurpose its old ‘Clann’ network into what is now known as ‘Lasair Dhearg Supporters Network’. Explaining why, the former Blanketman and political ex-prisoner Pádraic MacCoitir said ...
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