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December 2003

 

The Letters Page has been updated.

 

An Autopsy on the Provos
Sandy Boyer

 

The PSNI Threat

Anthony McIntyre

 

Seize the Opportunity, Seize the Moment
Liam O Ruairc

 

Happy Xmas from Little England
Eamon Sweeney

 

Dublin Cover-up Was Government Policy
Father Sean Mc Manus

 

Warm (Flat) Earth
Michael Youlton

 

The Right Road to Power
Anthony McIntyre

 

University Challenge

Seaghán Ó Murchú

 

Money Talks
Mick Hall

 

Bloody Sunday Inquiry
Liam O Comain

 

Stalemate for the GFA
Paul Mallon

 

The GFA and Other Fairystories
Proinsias O'Loinsaigh

 

Dies IRAe
Ruth Dudley Edwards

 

Conversion of Constantine
Terry O'Neill

 

Republican Prisoner Attacked in Hydebank YOC

IRPWA

 

Civil Rights Veterans on Prison Situation
October 5th Association

 

Electing to Disagree
Brendan O'Neill

 

The GFA Revisited

Gerry Ruddy

 

The Problem With the Kurds
Pedram Moallemian

 

Even Northern Ireland Has Global Responsibilties
Anthony McIntyre

 

Rafah Today: The Tent
Mohammed Omer

 

Act of Conscience to Spark an Act of Congress
Matthew Kavanah

 

No Surprise, No Change

Eamon Sweeney

 

The Global Justice Movement's Take on Sustainable Development
Dr Peter Doran

 

Canvassing for the Socialists
Anthony McIntyre

 

Address to PUP Conference
Davy Carlin

 

The Current Situation
Gerry Ruddy

 

November 2003

 

Deportees
Anthony McIntyre

 

Special Election Coverage:

 

Ignore the Headlines

Tom Luby

 

Doing Well for Themselves Alone
Mick Hall

 

Our Day Has Come...
Liam O'Comain

 

Paying the Price
Anthony McIntyre

 

Sinn Féin Advances Enhances Process
Fr. Sean Mc Manus, INC

 

'RSF satisfied with outcome - time to consider alternatives'

Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, Republican Sinn Féin

 

Poll Result Highlights Flawed Agreement
Andy Martin, 32 CSM

 

Election Comment
IRSP

 

Where Two or Three Shall Gather...
Liam O Ruairc

 

Julian Robertson Interviewed

Anthony McIntyre

 

From the Franklin River to the Chalillo Dam
Toni Solo

 

Rafah Today
Mohammad Omer

 

Raymond Blaney Interviewed
Anthony McIntyre

 

Derry's Ultimate Protest Vote

Eamon Sweeney

 

Boycott Undemocratic Elections
Andy Martin

 

Is Northern Ireland A Dangerous Place
Liam O Ruairc

 

Predictions
Liam O Comain

 

Stop Bush
Colin Gregory Palmer

 

The Learning Experience of Rakan
Mary La Rosa

 

Interview with Eamon McCann
Anthony McIntyre

 

SEA Foyle Election Manifesto

 

Towards True National Liberation

Liam O Comain

 

Belief in Santa Claus
Tommy Gorman

 

Getting It All Wrong
Liam O Ruairc

 

Castlewellan Arrests
Green Party

 

Inductive Writing Doesn't Make It So
Marty Egan

 

All Animals Are Equal, But Some Are More Equal Than Others
Sean Smyth

 

Authentic Americans - US Martyrs Pose Questions for John Negroponte
Toni Solo

 

Call for Boycott
Palestinian Academics

 

Belfast Agreement Postpones Cure for British Problem
Liam O Comain

 

Further Problems at Maghaberry Gaol
Martin Mulholland

 

Luis Eduardo Garcia Interviewed

Anthony McIntyre

 

Choosing Sides in Iraq
Mick Hall

 

The Taboo of Racism So Subtle
Davy Carlin

 

Left Unity Meeting
IRSP

 

Thessaloniki Prisoners On Hunger Strike
Anarchist Prisoner Support

 

Death Fast in 4th Year
DHKP-C Prisoners’ Organisation

 

Address to Ard-Fheis 2003
Ruairí Ó Bradaigh

 

British Anti-Insurgency

Liam O Comain

 

From A Belfast Granny
Kathleen O Halloran

 

Planes, Trains and Big Wains!
Eamon Sweeney

 

The Most Important Election Ever, Again
Anthony McIntyre

 

What Went Wrong in the New South Africa?
Andrew Nowicki

 

Ted Honderich Interview
Mark Hayes

 

Disappeared and Disapproved

Anthony McIntyre

 

HMP Maghaberry: First Flames from a Tinderbox
Fionnbarra Ó Dochartaigh

 

Housebreaking Ulster Style
Brian Mór

 

United Irishmen
Davy Carlin

 

From A Granny
Kathleen Donnelly

 

An Enemy of the Republic
Liam O Comain

 

Some Count, Some Don't
Michael Youlton

 

If Voting Changed Anything It Would Be Made Illegal!
Sean Matthews

 

Hackneyed Views of Cuba
Douglas Hamilton

 

Colombian Trade Unionist in Belfast: Meeting
Sean Smyth

 

A Memo to Adams: Remember That Every Political Career Ends in Failure
Tom Luby

 

Kidnapped

Anthony McIntyre

 

Ballot Papers and Elysium
Eamon Sweeney

 

Republican Prisoners and their Families Put at Risk due to Prison Strike
Martin Mulholland

 

Trust Without Honesty in the Peace Process?
Paul A. Fitzsimmons

 

The Letters Page has been updated.

 

October 2003

 

Cieran Perry of Working Class Action Interviewed
Anthony McIntyre

 

Republican Socialist Alternative Economic Strategy

Liam O Ruairc

 

The Ultimate Obscenity
Thomas Gore

 

The Chomskybot Code
Mary La Rosa

 

CAFTA Thumb Screws - The "Nuts and Bolts" of Free Trade Extortion
Toni Solo

 

Pulling the Guns Over Their Eyes
Anthony McIntyre

 

Time for the Media to Take a Different Spin

Brendan O Neill

 

Die Hard. Die Harder!
Kathleen O Halloran

 

The Sound of Silence
Sean Smyth

 

The Raison d'Erte of 'Dissenting Republicans'
Liam O Comain

 

Figures of Dissent
Liam O Ruairc

 

The Occupation Runs Out of Gas
Stan Goff

 

The Letters Page has been updated.

 

Lies, The Lying Liars Who Tell Them and the Law of Unintended Consequences
Tom Luby

 

One More for the Road...And Another. Come Back Tony & Bertie, the Crack's 90

Anthony McIntyre

 

On the One Road
Mick Hall

 

Conduct Unbecoming
Kathleen O Halloran

 

A Political Nightmare
Eamon Sweeney

 

Ireland: Repression, Violence, Segregation - The Realities of the Sectarian State
Paul Mallon

 

When the Drugs Don't Work
Sean Fleming

 

Last Week, It Happened Again. In Bolivia.
Michael Youlton

 

The Big Fella and the Big Lad
Breandán Ó Muirthile

 

Sabotaging the Fight for Freedom
Liam O Comain

 

Republicanism: Relevant and Not Going Away
TJ O Conchuir

 

Anti-Racism Network Statement for Endorsement
Davy Carlin

 

From Where Springs Hope
Anthony McIntyre

 

Trashing Free Software
Toni Solo

 

Hold Onto Your Guns
Liam O Comain

 

Loyalist Violence
Newton Emerson

 

Sleeping With the Enemy
Kathleen O Halloran

 

Whatever Happened to the Anti War Movement?
Brendan O'Neill

 

Free Joe & Clare
Davy Carlin

 

Theodor Adorno
Liam O Ruairc

 

The Desaparecidos
Anthony McIntyre

 

The Letters Page has been updated.

 

Tribalism is little more than the lowest common denominator
Thomas Gore

 

Separation vs. Segregation
Eamon Sweeney

 

The Legitimacy of Our Struggle
Liam O Comain

 

Not Losing His Way
Anthony McIntyre

 

A Hero of Reknown
Kathleen O Halloran

 

West Belfast - Childhood and the Wars
Davy Carlin

 

Abduction of Republican
32 County Sovereignty Committee

 

RSF attend Sardinian Conference
Des Dalton

 

Tangled Times
Eamon McCann

 

Heroes and Villains
Tommy Gorman

 

Who Was Responsible?
Michael Kearney

 

Costello Commemoration
Paul Little

 

Uncharted Waters
Anthony McIntyre

 

Date Change: Anti Racist Network Meeting
Davy Carlin

 

Coming Soon to the United States?
Toni Solo

 

The Rite of Passage
Anthony McIntyre

 

32 CSM Condemn Abduction of its members
Andy Martin

 

Irish Republicanism As I See It
Thomas Gore

 

A Question of Class
Davy Carlin

 

It All Leads Back to This
Mick Hall

 

I Dreamt I Saw Joe H Last Night
Anthony McIntyre

 

Tail Biting Prohibited
Eoghan O'Suilleabhain

 

September 2003

 

Edward Said, 1935-2003
Liam O Ruairc

 

Civil Rights Anniversary
Fionnbarra Ó Dochartaigh

 

Nothing But Contempt for the Court of the Rich
Anthony McIntyre

 

Ireland and Post Colonial Theory
Liam O Ruairc

 

2 Statements on the death of Edward Said

 

The Letters Page has been updated.

 

Over the Hills and Far Away
Anthony McIntyre

 

Glory O Glory O
Kathleen O Halloran

 

Beware the Trap Door
Eamon Sweeney

 

Massacre at the Monbar
Anthony McIntyre

 

The Night de Valera Replied to Churchill
Mick Hall

 

Junk Science? The Courts, the Media and the MMR Vaccine
John Harrington

 

Conscience or Complicity
Mary La Rosa

 

Dissident Republicanism
Davy Carlin

 

Revenge or...
Pedram Moallemian

 

Chequers Nights
Eamon Sweeney

 

An Open Letter to Michael Moore: You Are Way Off Base About Wesley Clark
Terry Lodge

 

Remembering the other 9/11
Anthony McIntyre

 

The Letters Page has been updated.

 

Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others
Eamon Sweeney

 

Members of 32CSM and IRPWA Physically Assaulted by RUC/PSNI
Andy Martin

 

Report: Belfast Anti Racist Meeting
Davy Carlin

 

The Shadows
Carrie Twomey

 

DHSS Lives
Liam O Ruairc

 

Freedom and Democracy in Cuba Depend on Support for Dissidents
Vaclav Havel, Arpad Göncz, Lech Walesa

 

Cancun - Whose Setback and Whose Opportunity?
Michael Youlton

 

How Do You Like Your Elections - Fixed and Murky?
Toni Solo

 

Armed Struggle
Anthony McIntyre

 

Republican Sinn Fein commemorates Robert Emmet

 

In The Shadow of Fear
Anthony McIntyre

 

Derry's Disappeared
Deaglán Ó Donghaile

 

Bangers on the Blanket?
Kathleen O Halloran

 

Dialectics of Terror
M Shaid Alam

 

Prison Segregation
Republican Prisoners Support Network

 

Letter to the Chief Constable
British Irish Rights Watch

 

A Jackboot on my Presscard
Anthony McIntyre

 

The Letters Page has been updated.

 

Seconds Out for Round Thirteen
Eamon Sweeney

 

UN Report on Human Development
Liam O Ruairc

 

No Sign Yet of an End to the Cold War
Anthony McIntyre

 

West Belfast - The Politics of Childhood
Davy Carlin

 

Review of Eoin O'Broin's Matxinada
Douglas Hamilton

 

Help Renew the Republican Dream
Gerry Ruddy

 

Three Meeting Announcements
Belfast & Dublin

 

Bush, Coke-a-Cola and the Nazis
Eamonn McCann

 

A Regime of Silence
Anthony McIntyre

 

Lower Falls Memories
Kathleen O'Halloran

 

My Axis of Evil
Pedram Moallemian

 

In Memory of Israfil Shiri 1973-2003
Debbie Grue

 

IRPWA Calls on Paul Murphy to Reveal Recommendations
Martin Mulholland

 

A Letter to Mr Foley
Matthew Kavanagh

 

US Denies It Gave Safe Harbor to Brian Nelson
Fr Sean Mc Manus

 

Between Theory and Reality
Eamon Sweeney

 

In the Name of Security
Jim J Kane

 

Caught at it Again
Anthony McIntyre

 

The History of the Troubles According to the Provos
John Nixon

 

Moving Forward Past the Past
Davy Carlin

 

More Questions than Answers
Mick Hall

 

In Memory of Robert Emmet

Charles Murnick

 

Attempted Suicide by Iranian Asylum Seeker
Debbie Grue

 

Dublin: Maghberry Briefing Meeting
Mags Glennon

 

Belfast Anti-War Movement
Public Meeting

 

Latest Police Attacks on Press Freedoms
Mike Browne

 

We Haven't Gone Away, You Know
The Blanket Back Online

 

The War Crime of Secret Graves
Anthony McIntyre

 

Horses for Courses
Eamon Sweeney

 

Rwanda: Crushing Dissent
Liam O Ruairc

 

Terrorists, Their Friends and the Bogota 3
Toni Solo

 

Aznar: Spain's Super Lackey
Agustín Velloso

 

Orwell Centenary Talk

John O'Farrell

 

The Letters page has been updated.

August 2003

A Pathological Political Disorder
Anthony McIntyre

 

Letter to the Blanket

Michael McKevitt

 

Deeply Flawed

Douglas Hamilton

 

The Prison Population Binge
Daniel S. Murphy

 

Going Native
Kathleen O Halloran

 

The Hall and State of Illusions
Davy Carlin

 

Congo
Liam O Ruairc

 

Mazen Dana
Sean Noonan

 

Michael Moore in Belfast: Stupid White Men
Anthony McIntyre

 

Revenge, Not Justice
Anthony McIntyre

 

Statement of Michael McKevitt

 

Brutality in Maghaberry Extends to Visitors

Martin Mulholland, IRPWA

 

Federal Prisoner Becomes University Professor
Stephen C. Richards

 

What is the New School of Convict Criminology?
Jeffery Ian Ross and Stephen C. Richards

 

Intellectuals and the Cold War
John Harrington

 

Kevin Lynch Commemoration Speech
Jimmy Bradley

 

Neo-Liberal Nicaragua: Neo Banana Republic
Toni Solo

 

Spooks, Spies and Spoofers
Anthony McIntyre

 

Doing Something Right
Aine Fox

 

The Ideas of Frantz Fanon

Liam O Ruairc

 

Terrorism and Civil Society as Instruments of US Policy in Cuba
Philip Agee

 

The Letters Page has been updated.

 

July 2003

 

Our Places in the Great Wall
Seaghán Ó Murchú

 

Mr Michael McKevitt's Statement at the Special Criminal Court
Michael McKevitt

 

Crisis of Political Imagination

Liam O Ruairc

 

Childhood, - West Belfast, Race and 'Irishness'
Davy Carlin

 

Island Palestine
Anthony McIntyre

 

A Short History of the Global Economy Since 1880
M. Shahid Alam

 

Belfast's Big-headed Bully-boy
Margaret Quinn

 

Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
Anthony McIntyre

 

Sinn Fein Support for Prisoners' Demand
Mick Hall

 

Alternatives

Liam O Ruairc

 

Revenge of the Bureaucrats
Julie Brown

 

What It's Like to be Raided
Carrie Twomey

 

Raid on McIntyre Home

 

Protest at Dundonald House
Anthony McIntyre

 

Dundonald House Protest (Photos)
Carrie Twomey

 

Conditions at Maghaberry Worsen

Lorraine Corr, relative; and statements from the IRPWA

 

Letters from Republican Prisoners
Rory O'More and Martin Brogan

 

June 2003

 

Bad News is No News in a World Where Sinn Fein Rules
Eamon Lynch

 

A Secret History Gets Told in Galway
Anthony McIntyre