A hunger strike has been waged by US-held captives in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, since February with those whose condition has deteriorated most being force-fed. Here, French journalist Sylvie Kauffmann from Le Monde compares and...
Read MoreFour days ago writer/activist Miko Peled from Israel went to Milltown Cemetery, Belfast, visited the grave of Bobby Sands and read the finale of Samer Issawi’s ‘Hunger Speech’ to Israelis. Miko Peled is an...
Read MoreWhilst a song fondly recalling Margaret Thatcher – ‘Ding Dong The Witch is Dead’ – soars up the British pop charts, an attempt by a right-wing Paris councilor to name a street after Thatcher has been denounced by a left-wing...
Read MoreMuch of the coverage of the death of Margaret Thatcher and her tenure as British Prime Minister has inevitably focused on her handling of the hunger strikes. Yesterday, within an hour of the announcement of her death,...
Read MoreMargaret Thatcher died today on the eve of the 32nd anniversary of Bobby Sands being elected in Fermanagh & South Tyrone with 10,000 more votes than Thatcher received in Finchley.
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The Bobby Sands Trust was established to publish, promote and keep in print the extraordinary writings of Bobby Sands, who from prison isolation became an international figure in 1981, and who to this day continues to inspire Irish republicans in their pursuit of freedom from British rule.