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13 January 2000 Edition

Respecting all sexual identities

13 January 2000

For republicans, the Ireland of the 21st century must celebrate our diversity and see all of our people going forward as equals. And we advance this philosophy within our party, within our communities, on the streets and in political life. Free article

Criminal injustice

13 January 2000

The Six-County criminal justice system's legacy is one of bias, bigotry and failure. An Phoblacht's LAURA FRIEL examines the system's failings and questions whether the criminal justice review body set up under the Good Friday Agreement is up to the job. Free article

Cuba: Forty Years of Revolution and Evolution

13 January 2000

Cuba is a defiant country. Not only defiant of the United States but defiant of the new world order. Defiant of capitalism. Defiant in the protection of its sovereignty. Defiant to ensure the continuation and improvement of the welfare of its people. Defiant in its protection of socialism. Free article

`Maybe the wrong road....'

13 January 2000

Tá an Teist Náisiúnta um Ghluaisteán i bhfeidhm fai dheireadh agus go leor leor gearáin faoi. An gcuirfidh sé le caighdeán sábháilteachta ar bhóithre na hÉireann? Scrúdaíonn Eoghan Mac Cormaic na tuairimí éagsúla. Free article

Workers in struggle

13 January 2000

White knights spell trouble for Irish economy and Does Ireland need General Motors back? Free article

Remembering the Past: The Declaration of Independence

13 January 2000

Sinn Féin candidates scored a spectacular victory in the December 1918 Westminster elections. The result, announced on 28 December gave the party 73 out of a total of 105 seats. Free article

Back issue: UDR morale crumbles

13 January 2000

So much for the myth that the British Army is in the North protecting the nationalist population! ``Who's going to defend us,'' demanded loyalist MP, Reverend Robert Bradford, ``when the British Army is taken out to fight the Russians?'' Bradford also called, on Tuesday, for the official introduction of British firing squads and the re-introduction of internment. Free article

New in print

13 January 2000

Mad Dog Coll, 100 Years of Derry, Ireland since 1690: A Concise History, The Sacred Isle and Political Ideology in Ireland, 1541-1641 Free article

Dúirt siad...

13 January 2000

The week in quotes... Free article


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