Urgent, universal collective action is needed to bring Israel to account. The holocaust of the Palestinian people and the colonisation of their lands must be stopped. There are no grey areas. There ...

In 2007, for a Christmas edition An Phoblacht sat down with Ella O’Dwyer and Martina Anderson to capture their prison Christmas experiences. It is a grea ...

Pádraic Wilson was the Officer Commanding Republican Prisoners in the H-Blocks from 1996 to 1999. Here he writes of the key events within the prisons in the months before and after the Good Friday ...

"Sinn Féin is absolutely committed to helping achieve that ambition through progressive public policy and legislation, a rights-based, multi-racial and multi-cultural Ireland" - Declan Kearney Inez ...

Cartoons and poetry are rare in An Phoblacht. This weekend we carry both courtesy of Galway Sinn Féin activist Jim Ward.

The Special Powers Act, one of the most repressive pieces of legislation ever enacted anywhere, was extensively used for 50 years by the Unionist regime in the Six Counties.

Chris Hazzard and Mick Murphy visited the grave of United Irishman Tom Dunn. Chris gives context to importance of Dunn 225 years since the 1798 rebellion.

The 40th anniversary of the anti-apartheid strike in Dunnes Stores commemorates the historic event that highlighted workers' solidarity against apartheid in South Africa.

On 12 May 1981 at 5.43 pm, just seven days after the death of Bobby Sands, Hunger Striker Francis Hughes died. The South Derry man had endured 59 days on Hunger Strike. His sisters Noreen, Maria an ...

THE 1916 PROCLAMATION, heralding the establishment of an Irish Republic and read by Pádraig Pearse from the steps of the GPO in Dublin at 12 noon on Easter Monday 1916, is undoubtedly one of the most ...

When the Partition of Ireland was first proposed in 1914 James Connolly said that such a scheme would mean “a carnival of reaction both North and South”. In the summer of 1920, as the British ...

"The DUP needs to stop making bad decisions. A chaotic unravelling of the political process is not a strategy, and it is not leadership. Positive leadership, and finding new compromises and ...