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In the wake of channel four’s screening of the Ballymurphy precedent, Eamonn McCann asks why state killers are still being let off the hook. The exposure of Michael Jackson in Channel 4’s Ballymurphy documentary makes it necessary to look back on his performance at The Bloody Sunday Inquiry
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Voices are growing within the British establishment for an amnesty for perpetrators of state violence. Eamonn McCann takes a look at the background to these demands, and the tangled web of negotiations between the British State and Sinn Féin. We are undergoing another bout of argy-bargy about the possibility
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As Pride approaches this weekend, Eamonn McCann discusses how the DUP and inherent sectarianism at Stormont have stalled equality. The panic of the DUP about the possibility of Westminster decriminalising abortion in the North goes to the root of the party’s attitude to “moral” issues as well as to
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After Ian Paisley’s 30 day ban, Eamonn McCann’s call is loud and clear—Ian must go now! Watching Ian Paisley’s whingeing, wheedling “apology” performance in the Commons today, it was difficult to avoid the thought that it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. A bigoted, sectarian,
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As the Parliamentary Standards Committee recommends Ian Paisley Junior be suspended from the House of Commons for 30 days, Eamonn McCann looks at the flurry of allegations circling the DUP and asks who benefits from the party’s apparent greed. Day after day after day, the truth comes dropping slowly.
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Is the Irish State sleep-walking into a new militarised EU empire? Eamonn McCann argues that recent events would suggest so. Nobody in Ireland, North or South, can be blamed for enjoying the long-drawn-out humiliation of the likes of Theresa May, David Davis or Boris Johnston over Brexit.
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The horrific treatment of elderly residents at the Dunmurry Manor care home has shocked many. But as Eamonn McCann argues, this revelation is not an isolated incident but the latest example of a scandalous system of institutionalised abuse. Among key things to keep in mind about the “horrific catalogue of
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The DUP has been quick to dampen claims the repeal vote will have an impact on the North. Eamonn McCann disputes this, arguing that Foster and co are out of touch even with their own voting base when it comes to the right to choose. Ian Paisley, Sammy Wilson and
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Twenty years after the Belfast Agreement, politics in the North remains stuck in the rut of communal division. In the first edition of a new regular column for Rebel, Eamonn McCann explores why the Agreement failed to deliver. It is easy to forget now that the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement