Events… The Flag Riots 9 Jan 20139 Jan 2018 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…
Politics Hillsborough And The Battle Of Orgreave: One Police Force, Two Disgraces 13 Sep 201214 Sep 2012 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…
International The Geopolitics of Asylum 16 Aug 201211 Oct 2012 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…
Events… Blair, Olympic Deals And The Glimpse Of Another Britain 21 Jul 201211 Oct 2012 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…
Ireland… The Torture Of Marian Price 31 May 20121 Jun 2012 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…
Ireland… Loughgall Martyrs 8 May 201231 May 2012 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,…
Events… Volunteer Bobby Sands 5 May 201231 May 2012 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…
News Absent Justice 22 Mar 201222 Mar 2012 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…
Events… Death On The Rock 6 Mar 20127 Mar 2012 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…
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