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Nationalisation not Devastation

February 25, 2024 Kieran Molloy

Socialists have always advocated that the only way to resolve the massive problems which face the working class is to take the ‘commanding heights’ of the economy into public ownership and to run the economy […]

Ireland-North

Corporate Extractivism on the Rise in Border Areas

October 28, 2022 Cllr Donal O'Cofaigh

Originally published in ‘Militant Left’ Edition 5, Summer 2022 Over recent years, communities in Fermanagh, Leitrim and Tyrone have faced a series of threats from highly-polluting industries seeking to exploit underground mineral resources for private […]

Environment

Anti-mining protests continue in Tyrone

December 1, 2021 Militant Left Reporter

Over 100 protestors gathered on a bitterly cold Sunday at the Cavancaw goldmine, on the side of a mountain above Omagh. Protestors from Leitrim, Derry and Monaghan joined campaigners from Tyrone. Canadian mining company Flintridge […]

Environment

Mockery of democracy: Corporate Gold-miners get green light

August 9, 2021 Anton McCabe

Mining company Flintridge Resources will be allowed to drill boreholes as ‘permitted development’. They will be round a controversial goldmine at Cavanacaw, four miles upwind of Omagh town centre. The five establishment parties allowed this […]

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