People Before Profit canvassing team attacked in Derry
A team of canvassers for the People Before Profit Alliance endured a vicious and disgraceful attack in the Nelson Drive area of the Waterside. The group that included Assembly candidate Eamonn McCann...
View ArticleSWP Statement on rioting in East Belfast
The Socialist Workers Party in Belfast condemns the recent and ongoing attacks on the Short Strand in the east of the city orchestrated by the UVF. The return to the streets of organized loyalist gangs...
View ArticleEast Belfast- An Area Blighted by Poverty
Author: Seán MitchellEast Belfast has been left behind in the ‘new Northern Ireland’. It is an area with large pockets of deprivation and visible poverty. Whilst this deprivation cannot be used as a...
View ArticleFight the Tories in Westminster and Stormont
Author: Goretti HorganThe return to the streets of organised loyalist gangs in paramilitary regalia, as seen during the UVF attacks on the Short Strand in June, is a sinister development. One that...
View ArticleTwelth Riots –Police are Real Thugs
‘Mindless Thugs’ was the term used by Assistant chief Constable Alastair Finlay in describing why there was riots on the twelth night in the Ardoyne area. It was claimed that there was no ‘organising...
View ArticleHoly Cross- Plumbing the depths 10 Years on
Author: Seán MitchellTen years ago, before the events of September 11th had happened, the world's eyes where firmly fixed on a very different place, far from the skyscrapers of New York City. Holy...
View ArticleOppose Sectarian Marches Catholics and Protestants Unite and fight!
Author: Sectarian tensions have been heightened in Belfast after a provocative Orange Order march forced its way up Donegal Street past the St.Patricks Catholic Church, just on the outskirts of the...
View ArticleNorth: class unity not sectarianism
Author: Over the past few weeks sectarianism has once again been thrown onto the political agenda with the parading outside St. Patrick's church, the riots in North Belfast and the Ulster Covenant...
View ArticleNo to Sectarian Riots and Protests
Belfast and other parts of the North have been gripped by an explosion of protests, riots and roadblocks at the hand of Loyalists paramilitaries.What initially began with 1000 Loyalist protesters...
View ArticleBelfast protests: Loyalism in crisis
On Wednesday, the Union Jack flew limply over Belfast City Hall for the first time since the flag protests begun. It was one of the eighteen days that the city council designated for flag flying and it...
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