Northern Ireland

Good Friday at 25: celebrations can’t mask failures

The GFA promised much but delivered little—except a breathing space for British imperialism

Bernie McAdam  ·  24 April 2023

Windsor Frameworks leaves Stormont in limbo

UK-EU deal sidelines reveals decorative nature of Northern Ireland Assembly

Bernie McAdam  ·  28 March 2023

Does Sinn Fein victory bring a united Ireland any closer?

Sinn Fein victory runs into Unionist veto

Bernie McAdam  ·  31 May 2022

Bloody Sunday: 50 years without justice

On 30 January 1972, Bloody Sunday, the British Parachute Regiment shot dead 13 unarmed civil rights protesters in Derry and wounded 15 others.

Bernie McAdam  ·  30 January 2022

Bobby Sands: Irish freedom fighter 1954-1981

Forty years ago, the death of Bobby Sands reverberated throughout the world in a way that no other event has done in recent Irish history.

Dara O'Cogaidhin  ·  05 May 2021

Unionism in crisis as Loyalists lash out

For a workers' republic of Ireland.

Bernie McAdam  ·  21 April 2021

Brexit talks hang in the balance

Deal or no deal, the working class loses.

Tim Nailsea  ·  13 November 2020

1920: the Irish war of independence

100 year anniversary.

Bernie McAdam  ·  15 October 2020

Double bluff or full throttle towards the Brexit precipice?

What happened to the "oven ready" Brexit?

Dave Stockton  ·  13 September 2020

Workers must take control of the lockdown

Coronavirus is demonstrating the essential basis upon which our society exists: the working class and the necessity of labour. Workers and their unions must take the lead and control this lockdown.

Bernie McAdam  ·  31 March 2020

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