I received the following report and photos from Comrade Michael Black of the Irish SWP…
On Monday June 16th, over 1000 protestors gathered at Belfast City Hall to Protest the visit of George W Bush. The protest was mostly made up of public sector workers from nearby workplaces using their lunchbreak to come down to the [...]

From Socialist Worker…
The neoliberal European Lisbon Treaty has been thrown out by the Irish voters as counting continues.
With 29 of 43 constituencies declared, the campaign for a no vote is leading by 53.5 percent to 46.5 percent. All but six constituencies have rejected the treaty.
Ireland was the only country to hold a referendum on the [...]

Via Tadamon…
Statement, Trade Union Friends of Palestine (ICTU), 5 June 2008
At its Biennial Delegate Conference in May 2008 the public sector union IMPACT passed two motions criticizing Israeli suppression of the Palestinian people and calling for a boycott of Israeli goods and services. The motions also called for divestment from those companies engaged in or [...]

Via Jack…

The intro to Ken Loach’s “The wind that shakes the barley”…

Four Green Fields…

Bobby Sands…

The inside story of British death squads in Northern Ireland

Smash Unionism… Smash Imperialism…

Why I’m not surprised: Northern Irish terrorists are part of the efforts to spread democracy in Iraq… Click on the photo below for more details…

I was doing some office tidying the other day when I found this postcard I bought from a bookshop in Belfast, around nine years ago, during a short visit following the 1998 Good Friday agreement…

I’m gonna try to post something longer in the future about N Ireland, whose political scene the Arab radical left [...]