Unity

IT is good to feel safe and secure in our homes and our countries but more and more this is less the case. The drive towards war in Britain and Europe is generally increasing. Recently there was the proposal to bring back national service –still an option- and now there is open talk about war with Russia. But it is a catch 22 as with the development of nuclear warfare they say we have to be ready for war with Russia, but that preparation brings on the war. 

On the 1st of February 2026 the annual Bloody Sunday march took a place in Derry observing the day in 1972 when 26 people were shot-14 of them killed by the British Army Paratroopers.

IRISH News columnist John Manley wrote a piece in the paper -27 Jan-under the heading “for God and Israel” which posed the question as to what lies behind unionism’s strong and enduring affiliation with Zionism?

WHILE opinion polls, North and South, show an increasing discontent with the failures of the current system, especially in housing, health services and the cost of living crisis, there is at the same time a frustrating sense of helplessness.

But the working class is only helpless when it stands back and leaves the development of social and economic policy in the hands of others.

MARY Wollstonecraft, advocate of women’s rights, she grew up immersed in debates about reason, social reform, and equality. Frankenstein engages with contemporary materialist science, presenting life as a product of matter rather than divine intervention. Political and social pressures extended to her family: Percy Bysshe Shelley’s atheism and radicalism made England hostile, prompting the couple’s 1816 exile to the Continent.

MANY people know that Bloody Sunday, 30th January is the anniversary of the day (1972) when 26 civilians were shot by the British Army in Derry, 14 of them died. The event marks the date when the lives of relatives, friends, civil rights activists changed-to become for many of them especially relatives, a life devoted to getting justice for those injured and killed.

Eoin Ó Murchú analyses the notable results of the most recent Red C poll, which suggests an increasing likelihood of a Left Unity government following the next election. But what exactly do we mean by Left?  There is nothing Left about surrendering to the global marketeers; nothing Left about the fundamental treaty of the European Union which insists that all member states must adhere to a market economy; nothing Left about prioritising peripheral issues ahead of the bread and butter concerns of the working class.

Like the broken clock being right twice a day, even Trump, occasionally, cannot fail to express the reality of who calls the shots. The truth he almost articulates, is that NATO is there to advance and underwrite red in tooth and claw US imperialism. No one described this better than the recently deceased Michael Parenti

IS the quote from the bible-Luke 14.2 and is normally associated with Christmas. Unfortunately, there are too many western political and military leaders who are intent on ignoring the biblical sentiment even though some or even all of them will tell us that they hold Christian values. But then so did the Crusaders who were basically a bunch of murdering, robbing swine who slaughtered all round them.