february 2020

Misreading the British Elections . . No issue in U.S. politics, not even immigration or “the Wall,” will do for Republicans what Brexit did for the Tories. . . . ..

thomas paine’s common sense for our time

In eighteenth century British politics, the Whigs represented the interests of the big business class, somewhat like our own Republicans, and the Tories represented the interests of those with hereditary wealth who formed, to a large extent, the leisure class and the cultural elite, somewhat..

irish return to political violence?

It was led by Irish Republican Brotherhood, Irish Volunteers, and Irish Citizen Army, when British were engaged in fighting World War I. Both Unionists and Republicans have united against 'New IRA paramilitaries because of the murder of Lyra McKee Derry during Easter Week. ..

the rise and fall of new world slavery

In my book I draw attention to the fact that the alliance between France and the new Black Saint-Domingue lasted few years, with Thermidorean leadership playing quite role — even sanctioning war on in Caribbean, a quasi-war with United States, and republican uprising Ireland. But,..

the political psychology of irish republicanism

In Northern Ireland there has been no shortage of republican heroism or of epic events with the power to overwhelm the sympathetic or even hostile imagination — the 1981 hunger strikes, for example, when ten men starved themselves to death. ... In 1934, the Republican Congress split, and..

something in the air

First published in An Phoblacht/Republican News, 19 August 1999 . . . ... Throughout those early years - against the background of the war, a bombing campaign in Britain, attacks on our demonstrations by the far right, state harassment and the anti-republican `Peace People' - TOM was to..

atrocity trial limit debated

BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher slipped into Northern Ireland Tuesday for a surprise Christmas visit with British security forces in a border area where Irish Republican Army guerrillas oprate. . . . Shrugging off Protestant protests and the threat of violence..

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