Northern Ireland
Eamonn McCann: Beyond the sectarian divide
07 May 2010Eamonn McCann, a veteran anti‑imperialist campaigner and socialist, got a fantastic 7.7 percent vote in Foyle, Northern Ireland. He stood as part of the People Before Profit coalition taking nearly 3,000 votes.
Eamonn McCann: Fighting for unity in Derry
27 April 2010The general election in Northern Ireland is dominated by sectarian division – except in Foyle, Derry, where People Before Profit candidate Eamonn McCann is standing.
Iris Robinson: scandal and sectarianism in Northern Ireland
12 January 2010Peter Robinson, the first minister of Northern Ireland, has resigned – temporarily, he claims.
Tributes to Chris Harman
10 November 2009Eamonn McCann, Civil rights activist, Northern Ireland
Community unites to resist attacks on Roma in Northern Ireland
23 June 2009The simmering sectarianism that dominates Northern Ireland boiled over last week as a series of racist attacks forced more than 100 members of the Roma community out of their homes in Belfast.
Attacks on Romanians in Belfast reflect the sectarian state
18 June 2009The simmering sectarianism that still dominates Northern Ireland has boiled over this week with more than 100 Romanians forced out of their homes in a series of racist attacks in Belfast.
Visteon car workers in Belfast occupy against cuts
31 March 2009Some 200 workers have occupied the Visteon car parts plant in Belfast, Northern Ireland, against job cuts.
Loyalist bigots whip up race attacks in Northern Ireland
31 March 2009Some of the festering sectarianism that still dominates Northern Ireland came to the fore last weekend with more than a dozen racist attacks on migrants' homes in Belfast.
Who are the Republicans?
17 March 2009Violence wasn’t introduced into Northern Ireland by the "terrorists".
Behind Northern Ireland’s peace walls
17 March 2009A wave of anger against segregated housing lay at the heart of the civil rights movement that erupted in Northern Ireland at the end of the 1960s.
Northern Ireland: the peace illusion
17 March 2009The British media were filled last week with weasel words of peace from politicians following a spate of armed attacks on British troops and the police in Northern Ireland.
Special Reconnaissance Regiment’s record of murder
10 March 2009A few days prior to the attacks, Northern Ireland’s chief constable Sir Hugh Orde announced that British army special forces from the Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR) were being deployed.
Are the Troubles set to return to Northern Ireland?
10 March 2009The killing of two British soldiers outside a barracks in Antrim last Saturday, followed by the subsequent killing of a police officer in Craigavon, have raised widespread fear that Northern Ireland’s "Troubles" might be set to blaze once more.
Local government workers win 0.3pc
10 March 2009Some 1.3 million local government workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, have received an award of an additional 0.3 percent pay rise, bringing the 2008-9 pay increase to 2.75 percent.
Northern Ireland: a sectarian state born in the violence of partition
10 March 2009Britain presided over the creation of Northern Ireland in 1921, when it was forced to quit the rest of Ireland. The six counties in the north were formed into a one-party state born in violence.
Hunger DVD
24 February 2009This film tells the story of Bobby Sands and hunger strikers in the H blocks of Northern Ireland.
New Derry protest against Raytheon's complicity in Israel's war crimes
20 January 2009Nine women protested in Derry, Northern Ireland, to stop Raytheon selling military components to Israel.
Derry occupation gets results
02 December 2008Workers at Calcast in Derry, Northern Ireland, have won better redundancy pay after occupying their factory. The plant makes parts for Ford. Some 90 redundancies were announced there.
Derry factory occupation against redundancies
25 November 2008Workers at Calcast in Derry, Northern Ireland, have gone into occupation after 90 redundancies were announced.
Hunger: The mundane evil at the heart of the British state
04 November 2008Looking back the shocking thing is just how mundane it was to visit Northern Ireland’s H Blocks of Long Kesh – or "the Maze" as the British called it.
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