Around 100 people attended a public meeting in Derry on Monday night, organised by the Free Derry Collective, to mark the 100th anniversary of James Connolly’s return to Ireland via the north-western city.

Speaking at a Green Party gathering in Limerick last Saturday, party leader and Twenty-Six County environment minister John Gormley gave a pledge to end corporate donations to parties in the state, as well as criticising the pervasive influence of big business on politics.

Rúnaí ginearálta éirígí Breandán Mac Cionnaith has announced the details of an éirígí demonstration on Belfast’s Black Mountain, which will take place on Saturday, August 7.

The body of Jon Anza, patriot and ETA activist, was finally returned to the Basque Country last week. Activists of the nationalist left welcomed him with voices chanting, flags waving and tears in their eyes.

Rúnaí ginearálta éirígí Breandán Mac Cionnaith has said the requisitioning of a road in south Down by the British army is proof of the abnormal nature of the British presence in the Six Counties.

Over 500 people marched in Lurgan on Sunday afternoon to demand political status for the republican prisoners incarcerated in Maghaberry jail.

Following the recent indication by the Dublin government that Elizabeth Windsor will be invited on a state visit to the Twenty-Six Counties, éirígí Cill Mhantáin activists, joined by other republicans and socialists, held a day of action on Friday in the People’s Park on Main Street, Arklow.

While Stormont politicians enjoy their long summer recess in sunny climes, recently released figures from the Six-County Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment reveal the employment crisis that continues to beset working people.

As éirígí predicted, the recent suspension of Section 44 of the British government’s ‘Terrorism Act’ has not deterred the PSNI in its campaign of harassment against the nationalist community.

- Refuse workers threaten strike
- Workers protest at Merlin Park hospital
- Ballymun lifts dispute ends
- 1300 nursing and care jobs threatened

Human rights activist and Shell to Sea campaigner Pat ‘the Chief’ O’Donnell was finally released from prison on Saturday. He had served more than five months of a seven month sentence imposed on him for his involvement in protests against the giveaway of our natural resources and Shell’s plans to build an experimental and highly dangerous pipeline through his community in north Mayo.

Since Monday night’s Orange Order incursion, the residents of Ardoyne and those who support their right to live free from sectarian harassment have come under sustained attack from the British government, the PSNI, organs of the Six County state, the corporate media and some political parties who should know better.