Ten years ago, before the events of September 11th had happened, the world's eyes where firmly fixed on a very different place, far from the skyscrapers of New York City.

‘Mindless Thugs’ was the term used by Assistant chief Constable Alastair Finlay in describing why there was riots on the twelth night in the Ardoyne area.

The return to the streets of organised loyalist gangs in paramilitary regalia, as seen during the UVF attacks on the Short Strand in June, is a sinister development.

East Belfast has been left behind in the ‘new Northern Ireland’. It is an area with large pockets of deprivation and visible poverty.

The Socialist Workers Party in Belfast condemns the recent and ongoing attacks on the Short Strand in the east of the city orchestrated by the UVF.

A team of canvassers for the People Before Profit Alliance endured a vicious and disgraceful attack in the Nelson Drive area of the Waterside.

Supermarket chain ASDA has bowed to sectarian protest by reinstating Loyalist William Hunter to his post.

Over a decade after the Good Friday Agreement, there are now almost twice as many 'peace lines' in Belfast than there were when it was signed.

The best way to counter right-wing politicians like Sammy Wilson and racist organisations like the BNP is to campaign for politics which bring people together on a basis which has nothing to do with the community or the country they come from

Sectarian Murder in Coleraine was Avoidable

By Seán Mitchell