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Fighting inequality in education "Over the years I have developed a healthy disrespect for an education system that promoted class and social division and had no relevance whatsoever to the social conditions which existed in working-class communities," Sinn Féin's Mary Nelis told an important conference on education last weekend. Interview - Juana Calfunao, leader among Chile's indigenous Mapuche people 
Chile's so-called "friendly transition" from the bloody dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet to the democratic government of the Concertación Coalition including socialists, social democrats and Christian democrats, has seen allegations persist that those who suffered most under Pinochet are still being victimised by politicians afraid to upset the military or the rich. Photo: Juana Calfunao Interview - 'Roller coaster' campaign 
With Sinn Féin activists gathered in Derry to evaluate and develop the party's campaign around education in the North, An Phoblacht took the opportunity to talk to West Belfast MLA and Education spokesperson Michael Ferguson. Photo: Michael Ferguson confronts British Education Minister Angela Smith Ó Snodaigh addresses huge Basque rally 
The leader of the banned Basque political party Batasuna, speaking at an alternative rally after a Batasuna congress was banned, said on Saturday last that a Basque peace process was inevitable despite the obstacles. Photo: Aengus Ó Snodaigh Leonard Hardy on bail in Germany 
Former political prisoner and well-known republican Leonard Hardy voluntarily travelled to Germany this week to deal with charges related to the conflict in Ireland. Photo: Leonard Hardy Sinn Féin MEP in Palestine as election observer 
Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún was in Palestine this week as an election observer as the Palestinian electorate went to the polls in the first national elections in a decade De Brún who went to Palestine last Monday, is part of a delegation from the European United Left/Nordic Green Left group in the EU Parliament who observed the legislative election on Wednesday. Photo: Bairbre de Brún 
Former Tory Home Office Minister Douglas Hogg was visibly shaken when, on Friday 20 January, members of the campaign group An Fhirinne confronted him over involvement in events leading up to the 1989 murder of human rights lawyer Pat Finucane. Alan McBride to deliver Bloody Sunday Memorial Lecture 
This year's commemorative programme marking the 34th anniversary of the massacre of 13 unarmed civilians in Derry on Bloody Sunday 1972, has a packed agenda drawing out and reflecting on a range of issues related to the continuing search for justice and a lasting peace in Ireland. Photo: Blood stained Civil Rights banner Bloody Sunday event targeted by unionists and neo-Nazis The sectarianism and racism aimed at Catholics and Irish nationalists in Scotland once again raised its ugly head at the weekend when unionist thugs backed by British neo-Nazis attacked a Bloody Sunday commemoration march through Glasgow on Sunday 22 January. 
Irish soldiers will be used as "shock troops" in a developing EU Army if the 26 Counties joins EU battle groups in the time ahead, according to a new publication by Roger Cole, Chairperson of the Peace and Neutrality Alliance. Nigerian woman released from Mountjoy 
Nigerian woman Pamela Izbekhai was released from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin last Monday 23 January. Pamela was arrested earlier in the month in County Sligo, after she went into hiding for five weeks to avoid a deportation order. Photo: Minister for Justice Michael McDowell was confronted by anti-racism protestors Sinn Féin Dáil leader and Cavan/Monaghan TD Caoimhghin Ó Caoláin visited unionist East Belfast on Monday and met political, business and community representatives. The event was a fact-finding mission of Oireachtas members sponsored by Co-Operation Ireland. Stanley selected for Laois/Offaly Laois County Councillor Brian Stanley was unanimously selected as the Sinn Féin candidate for Laois/Offaly in the next 26-County General Election. 
A round-up of the rest of the week's news. Photo: Owen Fitzpatrick said he was held by two PSNI members as another one sprayed him on the face and neck Fógraí bháis - Brendan (Basil) Doris It was with great sadness that I learnt of the death of Brendan (Basil) Doris last Thursday. An early morning phone call from his daughter Michelle to say her Daddy had died numbed me into a sense of shock. Basil had been a great friend, comrade and Council colleague to me. East Derry held its annual AGM on Thursday 19 January. Outgoing East Derry Comhairle Ceantair Chair and Cúige member Clíona O Kane welcomed delegates and handed over to Eric McGinley to conduct the election of officers. Anthony O'Neill from Glenullin was elected the new Chairman. Schoolgirl victims of sectarian attack 
A group of schoolgirls from North Belfast were attacked by a sectarian mob as they made their way to school through the loyalist Ballysillan area. The six teenagers from Ligoniel were kicked, spat on and had cans of lemonade poured over them by a gang from the Boys and Girls Model School as they made their way to Our Lady of Mercy Girls' Secondary School on Bilston Road on Monday 23 January. |
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