Urgent, universal collective action is needed to bring Israel to account. The holocaust of the Palestinian people and the colonisation of their lands must be stopped. There are no grey areas. There ...

This week marks the 40th anniversary of the heroic anti-apartheid strike by a group of young workers in Dunnes Stores, Henry Street, Dublin. We re-publish here special features first published on the ...

Last July saw the Tories emphatically ejected from government in Britain. The Labour Party was returned with a large majority promising a break from a decade and a half of Tory misrule. It didn’t take ...

Inez McCormack was an inspirational Irish trade unionist. She was a committed leader of the equality agenda; a fearless proponent of anti sectarianism and housing rights; a patron of the MacBride ...

The bereaved and survivors of this tragedy have borne their sorrow with great dignity for 43 years. Another mother, Gertrude Barrett, who lost her son Michael, was the first to give a pen picture at ...

RTÉ provided Fianna Fáil with advance notice of the topics for the RTÉ Leaders' Debate on Tuesday, An Phoblacht can reveal. Correspondence seen by An Phoblacht shows that an e-mail outlining the main ...

This weekend we remember Kevin Lynch and Kieran Doherty, the 7th and 8th 1981 hunger strike martyrs. Kevin Lynch died on August 1st after 71 days on hunger strike. Kieran Doherty died August 2nd after ...

As many enthusiasts of the United Irish era will know, the rebel forces of County Down gathered in the days preceding the Battle of Ballynahinch on nearby Ednavaddy Hill. So on route to Rostrevor this ...

The GPO The General Post Office in O’Connell Street was the headquarters of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic. It was occupied by a Headquarters Battalion made up of men drawn from the ...

In these crazy days of Covid we live in I can’t get along to see the family of my good friend and comrade Gerard McGuigan who passed away last Friday or attend his funeral as I’m in isolation. I saw ...

Mitchel McLaughlin tracks the development of the Bloody Sunday Justice Campaign and also highlights some of the key events on the road to that tragic day on 30 January 1972 He shows how the seeds of ...

By April 1923 the British and Free State counter-revolution had succeeded in suppressing the Irish Republic and the IRA faced military defeat. The IRA Chief of Staff and his comrades were on the run ...