Ireland… Volunteers Henry Hogan and Declan Martin 21 Feb 201222 Feb 2012 TWO young IRA Volunteers, Henry Hogan (20) and Declan Martin (18) were killed in an engagement with British armed forces in the mainly nationalist village of Dunloy, North County Antrim…
Politics Happy Birthday Huey P Newton 17 Feb 201221 Feb 2012 Huey P Newton was born on 17th February 1942. Huey went on to be co-founder, with Bobby Seale, of the Black Panther Party of Self Defense. One of the most…
Ireland… Nationalism, Caucasians and Funny Politicians 17 Feb 201217 Feb 2012 Football, someone once said, is a funny old game and this week we have seen the wisdom of that remark. However you don’t expect to get your laughs watching political…
Ireland… James Connolly And The Battenburg’s ‘Feast of Flunkeyism’ 16 Feb 201216 Feb 2012 The British state media is reporting that Sinn Fein is about to vote in favour of diamond jubilee events for Betty Battenburg. It reminded me of Connolly's quote about similar…
Events… Clonoe Martyrs 16 Feb 201215 Feb 2013 Today is the twentieth anniversary of the murder of four IRA volunteers at Clonoe. The volunteers had earlier taken part in an attack on the RUC barracks in Coalisland and…
News How The BBC Reports Chavez’s Venezuela 15 Feb 201216 Feb 2012 By News Unspun The headline "Chavez 'would accept' Venezuela election defeat " ran on the BBC website on 14 January 2012, for a story which reported that Hugo Chavez would not…
Ireland… Colin Duffy Press Conference 14 Feb 201215 Feb 2012 Press conference held by Colin Duffy after his release.
Ireland… Interfering, Meddling People: Labour Agitators and 1916 10 Feb 201214 Feb 2012 By Tom Stokes In 1891, in “The Soul of Man under Socialism”, Oscar Wilde had this to say – ‘What is said by great employers of labour against agitators is unquestionably…
Ireland… Irish Ayes 10 Feb 201210 Feb 2012 This article first appeared in Bella Caledonia, the original can be viewed here. By Jim Slaven The constitutional question has dominated Scottish politics for some considerable time. During the last…
Politics I Was Teenage Black Panther 8 Feb 201210 Feb 2012 By Jamal Joseph I walked into a Panther office in Brooklyn in September 1968. Dr. King had been assassinated in April of that year. I'd gone down to 125th Street…
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