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The Flag Riots
By Jim Slaven The unionist protests across the Six Counties over the decision of Belfast City Council to reduce the number of days the union flag is flown over City Hall are now in their second month. The most serious trouble has centred on parts of Belfast where the UVF have been orchestrating a campaign … Continue reading
Hillsborough And The Battle Of Orgreave: One Police Force, Two Disgraces
I was still at school during the Miners strike and the NCB Scottish headquarters was right next to my school so everyday we would go down and stand with the striking miners in the picket line. Sometimes we would give them our dinner money but most of the time we would just join in with … Continue reading
The Geopolitics of Asylum
While Julian Assange has proved a very divisive figure the actions of the British state in this case are deeply worrying and dangerous. Here is an article written by Tom Hayden, exploring the international political power play at work. Hayden is always a perceptive commentator and has written extensively on subjects as diverse as C Wright … Continue reading
Blair, Olympic Deals And The Glimpse Of Another Britain
By John Pilger This is a story of two letters and two Britains. The first letter was written by Sebastian Coe, the former athlete who chairs the London Olympics Organising Committee. He is now called Lord Coe. In the New Statesman of 21 June, I reported an urgent appeal to Coe by the Vietnam Women’s … Continue reading
The Torture Of Marian Price
By Sandy Boyer Marian Price has been imprisoned in Northern Ireland for more than a year on the basis of secret evidence neither she nor her lawyers have been allowed to see. She is effectively interned without a trial, sentence, or release date. Unless the courts intervene, she will only be released by order of … Continue reading
Loughgall Martyrs
Today is the 25th anniversary of the killing of eight Volunteers from the IRA’s East Tyrone Brigade at Loughgall. Volunteers Jim Lynagh, Declan Arthurs, Seamus Donnelly, Tony Gormley, Patrick Kelly, Gerard O’Callaghan, Eugene Kelly and Padraig McKearney were killed as part of the British state’s shoot-to-kill policy with the SAS firing more than one thousand … Continue reading
Volunteer Bobby Sands
On this the 31st anniversary of the death on hunger strike of Bobby Sands, his friend and comrade, former IRA prisoner Colm Scullion from South Derry, recalls first meeting Bobby while on remand in Crumlin Road Jail. Colm had been injured in a premature explosion at the time of his arrest in October 1976 along with … Continue reading
Absent Justice
Below is a recent episode of Absent Justice in which Moazzam Begg interviews Rizwaan Sabir and Hicham Yezza about their wrongful arrest by British police. Both men were arrested while undertaking legitimate academic research at the University of Nottingham and held under anti terrorism legislation. There are obvious parallels between the British state’s abuse of … Continue reading
Death On The Rock
On March 6th 1988 three unarmed IRA volunteers, Mairead Farrell, Dan McCann and Sean Savage, were murdered by British forces on the orders of the Thatcher Government. In the aftermath the British state told lie after lie which their media repeated without any investigation or interest in establishing the facts. One exception was ITV documentary Death … Continue reading
