Selected Bloody Sunday articles

Bloody Sunday: Murder by British state (19 Jun 2010, #2206)
The Saville report released on Tuesday stripped away key lies that the British establishment had told for 38 years about the murder of 14 civilians in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1972

Eamonn McCann and Bloody Sunday families on the Saville Report (19 Jun 2010, #2206)
Eamonn McCann, who was present at Bloody Sunday and wrote Socialist Worker’s front page after the massacre, said on Tuesday:

British state wanted to crush people’s revolt (19 Jun 2010, #2206)
Bloody Sunday was a British atrocity, and the biggest single killing by state forces in the course of the conflict in Northern Ireland

Top brass decided that it was time to ‘shoot selected ringleaders’ (19 Jun 2010, #2206)
The Bloody Sunday operation was devised at a very high level to stage an unprecedented confrontation

The Widgery Report: Lord master of deception (19 Jun 2010, #2206)
Lord Widgery was given the brief for the first cover up of the massacre in 1972

Army chief Michael Jackson’s false report on Bloody Sunday (19 Jun 2010, #2206)
Former head of the British Army, Sir Michael Jackson, was second in command in Derry on Bloody Sunday

Bloody Sunday: Violence flows from nature of the state (19 Jun 2010, #2206)
Bloody Sunday exposes the brutality at the heart of the British state

Eamonn McCann writes on Bloody Sunday (26 Jan 2002, #1784)
Eamonn McCann was one of the organisers of the civil rights protest on Bloody Sunday

Bloody Sunday in Derry (10 Dec 2005, #1980)
In an exclusive extract from his new book, Eamonn McCann tells the story of the 30 year campaign for justice by the victims’ families

Bloody Sunday victims' relatives protest over delayed report (20 Mar 2010, #2193)
Relatives of those killed on Bloody Sunday are protesting outside Downing Street, the Ministry of Defence and Buckingham Palace today, Wednesday

Bernadette Devlin: A megaphone for workers' struggle (8 May 2010, #2200)
In 1969 Bernadette Devlin made history when she became the youngest woman to be elected to parliament

Secret 1972 cabinet papers released: Tories wrecked peace hope in Ireland (4 Jan 2003, #1832)
The events of Bloody Sunday influenced the growth and development of the IRA, which was committed to the armed struggle against the British and Protestant state

Bernadette Devlin: a rebel MP (16 Apr 2005, #1947)
Having experienced police violence first hand, Bernadette became involved in the founding of the radical People’s Democracy group

Interview with Bernadette McAliskey (16 Apr 2005, #1947)
Bernadette Devlin (now McAliskey) was elected to parliament as part of the struggle in Northern Ireland in 1969

They forge documents to smear their enemies (3 May 2003, #1849)
The intelligence services have used forgeries and concocted evidence time after time to discredit people and governments

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Martin Smith - 'I will appeal and clear my name'

Mark Serwotka makes statement on Martin Smith's conviction

Video of protests outside anti-fascist Martin Smith's court case