Today (January 1st 2009) marks the 50th anniversary of the defeat of the US-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista by the 26th July Movement, led by Fidel Castro. Ever since that fateful day in 1959 Cuba has been a
On the 9th of June, Éirígí activists joined a protest at Dublin’s City Hall that had been organised by residents from those communities directly affected by the recent collapse of Dublin City Council’s Public Private Partnership (PPP) regeneration plans.
Éirígí will hold its second Ard-Fheis in Dublin this weekend. Formed in the same city, as a campaigns group, on the 90th anniversary of the Easter Rising in 2006, Éirígí has developed significantly in the time that has elapsed since.
Throughout Europe, social movements are organising against the Lisbon Treaty in massive numbers. While governments across Europe, fearing the democratically expressed will of the people, are pushing the
On 5th May 1981 at 1:15 in the morning, Bobby Sands - IRA volunteer, socialist republican, community activist, father, husband, writer and political prisoner - passed away after enduring 66 days on hunger strike.
An Éirígí initiative to mark the 92nd anniversary of the Easter Rising has come under both verbal and physical attack in an area of the Six Counties notorious for sectarian discrimination against the nationalist community.
Éirígí stepped up their campaign for a No vote in the upcoming Lisbon Treaty referendum over the weekend, bringing the reasons for a rejection of Lisbon onto the streets and into public meetings in both Donegal and Dublin.
As details continue to emerge from various sources regarding the Report of the Strategic Review Body on Parades, it is clear that its recommendations are predicated on two events:
These were heartfelt words of Geraldine Finucane to the media shortly after she discovered that the British government had decided 18 months ago to cease all preparations for a public inquiry into the brutal murder
