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The Civil Rights Movement & the ‘Troubles’

History & Anniversaries - Ireland

TV review: ‘Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland’

August 4, 2023 Niall Mulholland

Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland, available on BBC iPlayer, is one of the outstanding documentaries on the conflict in Northern Ireland that is euphemistically known as the ‘Troubles’. Rather than an overarching narrative, […]

History & Anniversaries - Ireland

Bloody Sunday Trust Debate: Civil rights and the Role of Trade Unions

February 3, 2023 CWI

The video link below features Carmel Gates, General Secretary of the Nothern Ireland Public Services Alliance (personal capacity) – the largest trade union in the North of Ireland – and a Militant Left (CWI Ireland) […]

History & Anniversaries - Ireland

Fiftieth Anniversary of Derry’s Bloody Sunday

January 30, 2022 Niall Mulholland and Ciaran McKenna (Militant Left - CWI Ireland)

The Struggle for Justice Continues Half a century has passed since the British Army shot 28 peaceful civil rights demonstrators on January 30, 1972, in Derry city, Northern Ireland. Thirteen innocent people were killed in […]

History & Anniversaries - Ireland

Fifty Years Since ‘Internment Without Trial’

August 9, 2021 Peter Hadden and Peter Taaffe, from the CWI archives

“In the 12 weeks since the [British] Heath and [N Ireland] Faulkner governments introduced internment, the cities and towns of Northern Ireland have become battlefields. This vicious sectarian measure has mobilised huge sections of the […]

Bogside residents defending their barricades against police and loyalist assault
History & Anniversaries - Ireland

‘Battle of the Bogside’ and British Troops on the Streets

August 14, 2019 Niall Mulholland, Committee for a Workers' International

Fifty years ago this month, troops were deployed on the streets of Derry and Belfast by the British Labour government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson.The capitalist establishment described it at the time as a temporary […]

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