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The point of this exhibition is to mark the 51st Anniversary of Bloody Sunday. All the art pieces on display, by the brilliant Bogside artist Squarebearderry, evoke the environment of the streets where the massacre took place. We have marched the same route every year since Bloody Sunday happened, and
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The couldn’t-care-less attitude of many Unionist representatives to the interests – even the lives – of their “own” community has never been more evident than in their reaction, or lack of reaction, to the inquest on the victims of the Ballymurphy massacre. Not one of them stepped forward to
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The Inquiry in London into undercover policing has shown how far we still have to travel to find the truth about Bloody Sunday. The remit of the “SpyCops” Inquiry under Lord Mitting doesn’t extend to Bloody Sunday. But the overlap between the issues raised has been striking. The Mitting
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Eamonn McCann on the reaction to latest blow dealt to the Bloody Sunday families, followed by a statement from The Bloody Sunday March For Justice Committee on Sinn Féin’s decision to welcome the commander in chief of the Parachute Regiment within 24 hours. Many people outside Derry say – and
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Ten years on since the Saville Inquiry, Eamonn McCann argues that despite the attempts to close the case on Bloody Sunday, the full truth of what happened in Derry on the 30th of January 1972 is still being covered up. June 15 is the 10th anniversary of publication of the
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Kate Nash, whose brother William was one of 14 civil rights marchers gunned down by the Parachute Regiment in Derry on January 30th 1972 speaking at Free Derry Wall in solidarity with the family of George Floyd, crushed to death by the Minneapolis police on May 26th, 2020. Mr. Floyd’
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As the anniversary of Bloody Sunday approaches, Eamonn McCann looks back at the Amritsar massacre, drawing parallels between two murderous atrocities at the hands of the British Empire. Sunday, April 13th 1919 was the day the decline and fall of the British Empire became obvious and undeniable. This was the
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Boris Johnson says he is ‘sickened’ at the prosecution of British soldiers for Bloody Sunday. Eamonn McCann responds. The toxic clown Boris Johnston has told the Daily Telegraph that “it feels sickening” that charges might be brought against some of the paratroopers who killed or wounded 28 unarmed people in
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As we approach another anniversary of Bloody Sunday, Eamonn McCann outlines why this year’s march for justice demands “Jail Jackson”. The slogan on the poster announcing this year’s Bloody Sunday march reads – “Jail Jackson!” The reference is to General Sir Michael Jackson, second in command of the paratroopers
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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