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‘Burn them all out!” This was the soundtrack to the racist riots that shook Ballymena in recent days, set to a spasm of street violence and the torching of homes, carried out by masked-up hordes forcing midnight evacuations. Families hid in attics. Vulnerable tenants were forced to approach landlords
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You can read this article in English here. “If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem.” De réir na dtuairiscí, sin a dúirt Kwame Ture, gníomhaí de chuid na gluaiseachta Black Power, tráth.
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The British Government and the European Union have agreed a deal on the Protocol. Somhairle Mag Uidhir analyses what The Windsor Framework might mean for the DUP, and for politics in the North more generally. Rishi Sunak’s Windsor Framework may have a grander title than its predecessor, The Protocol,
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In the second part of a series, Jim Larmour and Hannah Kenny assess how the permanent crisis of unionism has failed communities, arguing that workers’ unity, rather than division is the way forward. Part one can be read here. Riots earlier this month showed us where stoking tensions and sectarian
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From Brexit to a potential border poll, Unionism is in crisis. In the first of two articles, Jim Larmour analyses the roots of some of its current difficulties. It has now been over two decades since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement and the establishment of the Stormont Assembly.
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Arlene Foster has said she is willing to reach out to her Catholic ‘neighbours’. Is this a new dawn for politics, or the first signs of the endgame for unionism? On Sunday 24 June, DUP leader Arlene Foster boldly went where no unionist leader has been before—to a GAA