JANUARY 1997
When Will The Talks Start?, Editorial
Irish Labour Pains, J. O'Connor
Orange Terror? (Review)
Labour Must Wake
Cecil Walker
Fifth Column (Saving Ulster; Show-biz; Porter & Bevins; Tithes)
Funding for Politics (Report)
Central African Postscript, E. Courtney
Letters From Israel (Hans)
Around Europe (Israel & Europe; Spanish Constitutional Court; European Broadcasting)
Northern News Digest (Blackmen Boycott; Conservatives in W. Belfast; G. Wheatcroft v. Gaelic; Housing Executive Privatisation; Robert Saulters Election; Tony Blair Drops 'Unity By Consent'; UUP-Goldsmith Alliance; Eoghan Harris On Tactical Ceasefire; Graves Vandalisation; Adams & McGuinness Join Army Council; Protestants Boycotted)
Eoghan Harris's Poppycock, Jack Lane
Eoghain Harris Communicates (TV Programme)
Sean O'Callaghan, Sean McGouran
The Reynolds Libel Case, Angela Clifford
Further Sunday Times Libels (Report)
Legal Digest ("UK Eyes Only"; SF Damages; Pringle Case;Vigilantes; Desmond Lindop; Memoirs Of A Nun; Allegiance)
The De Rossa Case, Angela Clifford
As Seen On Radio. (Collins Film; Tony Blair; Labour Policies), Cinqtus
NATO (letter), Philip O'Connor
Two Socialist Films (Review)
FEBRUARY 1997
Forward to The Past! Britain's European Policy, Editorial
Partnership 2000, Angela Clifford
A Thundering Disgrace, Joe Keenan
MSF (Report)
Boomtown Dublin (Zeit Translation), Reiner Luyken
Public Debt (Report)
Northern News Digest (SF Denial; Ken Maginnis & Openness; Hunter Discounts Talks; Electoral Fraud; Orangemen Support Massgoers; David Ervine Accusation; Ancram & PUP, UDP; March Regulation: Government Delay; Labour Promises.)
A Plea For Catholic Unionism By A "Red Marxist", B. Clifford
Democracy Now: A Substitution
Archive (Two Economic Reports)
As Seen On Radio (The Pundits; Gorbachev; Translators; Russian Music), Cinqtus
Legal Digest (Extradition: R. McAliskey, General; New NI Chief Justice; No Lawyer Ban Upheld; Garda McCabe; Vigilantes; In Brief: Irish Jail Claims; Syringe Crime; Mirren Dropped; Decommisioning Bill; Clegg; 2 Scottish Soldiers)
Letter Of Complaint From Secretary Of New Dialogue (Formerly New Consensus) & Reply, Bert Ward, Brendan Clifford
MARCH 1997
Constitutional Nationalism: What Might It Be?, Brendan Clifford
An Election Budget, John Martin
Fifth Column (Wealth & Religion; Some Mothers; Harryville; Officials)
Giving Sex Equality A Bad Name, Angela Clifford
Bloody Sunday—Apology Not Enough, Foyle Labour Group
Northern News Digest (Patricia Campbell; QUB Bookshop; Blair On NI; WP Split; Adams & Vigilantism; Orange Support Movt; Hume Attacks SF; Bruton, SF & Consent)
Separating The Government From Its Powers (Courts Service), Angela Clifford
Independent Labour Party, S. McGouran
Bloody Sunday (Not Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday And Saturday)
Court Reporting (Report)
Legal Digest (New Crime Act; Whitemoor Trial)
Australia: A Political Update
Labour Coalition In The High Court (Report)
APRIL 1997
Metamorphosis, Editorial
Contract Self-Employment, E. Courtney
Niall Cusack Challenges Patrick Mayhew (Report)
Fifth Column (Paisley Biography; Orange Services; Anarchism; McCann)
Hume & Constitutional Nationalism, Pt 2, B. Clifford
The Gadfly (Report)
Northern News Digest (Disability Claims; Grand Ctte; Rowntree Trust; Bruton & Veto; Unionst Pact; Multi-Party Talks; Adams Agrees To Mitchell Principles; Denton & Harrassment; Harryville; Dromore & March)
Assassin Or Servant Of Democracy? Michael Collins On The South Bank Show (Transcript)
Poverty, Poverty, Knock. Me Loom It Is Saying All Day, Joe Keenan
The De Rossa Libel Case, Angela Clifford
Annexing East Jerusalem (Report)
UK Unionists Oppose Non-Sectarian Education
MAY 1997
Thoughts On A Non-Democratic Election
Breaching A Citadel Of Capital, E. Courtney
Fifth Column (Uneducated Ulster; ILP; Antipodal New Labour; Green/Orange)
Redd(ish) Ballymacarret, Sean McGouran
Envoi: On Seán O'Callaghan
Ballymacarret Postscript, Brendan Clifford
Northern News Digest (Rev Templeton; Parades; Catholic Jobs; Orange Resignations Threat; Easter Parade; Gary McMichael; David Ervine On Provocation; McCartney Fights Election; Beef Ban; Mowlam Ceasefire Call)
Yet More Enlightenment From O'Brien (Jefferson Review), Brendan Clifford
The Northern Ireland Grand Committee (Report)
Tony Blair (Report)
(NI) Labour Deliquesces, Cinqtus
Labour: A Present Candidate & Absent Phantom (Report)
JUNE 1997
The Clone election
NI Local Elections
SF & Westminster
Fifth Column (Censored Music; Sainsbury's)
The Famine, Brendan Clifford
The Great Famine Event (Report)
Northern News Digest (SF Wins; Dromore March; INLA Killing; RC Ne Temere Apology; Mrs. McAliskey; Dr. Mowlam & Decommissioning; SC & Equality Bill; Garvaghy Rd Confusion; SF Local Gain; Loyalist Threats)
Was Michael Collins A Figment Of Ireland's Imagination:, Sean McGouran
Party Politics (Report)
The Democratic Mandate (Transcript)
French Politics (Report)
Legal Digest (McCartney Libel Win; C.C. O'Brien Libel; Henry Robinson Libel Win; Disclosure & E. Haughey; Adgey Jailed; Loyalist Killings)
'Militant' & The Stormont Councillors!, Cinqtus
Class Struggle Revisted!, Sean McGouran
JULY 1997
The Politics Of The Greater Evil, Editorial
President Robinson Moves On, Angela Clifford
Irish General Election Result, & Commentary
Fifth Column (New Labour, New Ireland; Tory Melt-down; Blare Babes; Parallel Universe?)
A Historical Echo (Report)
Loyalist Paramilitarism (Transcript)
The Amsterdam Summit, E. Courtney
UK General Election Result
Northern News Digest (SDLP Belfast Mayor; Presbyterian Decline; Denton Attacks NI Govt; Paisley Attacks Trimble, Decommissioning; Maginnis Reply; QUB Bookshop Saved; RUC men Shot; Lurgan Rioting; UVF Threats; Bp Walsh "Naive; O'Callaghan)
Hong Kong, Brendan Clifford
Legal Digest (European Justice; Right To March; RUC Oath; Local Govt Oath; Extradition: McAliskey; 2 Scots Guards; Dublin Incident)
As Seen On Radio (Public Passions) Cinqtus
The New Politics Minister (Transcript)
An Example To follow? (Report)
AUGUST 1997
No Cease for Communal Conflict!, Editorial
Myanmar (Burma), E. Courtney
Fifth Column (Hong Kong Nausea; Devolution; Knowledge Of Good & Evil?; V. Hanna; Persecuting Zeal)
Some Misconceptions About The Famine (Report)
Archive Revelations And 'History', Brendan Clifford
Legal Digest (Common Travel Area?; Miscarriage Of Justice?; Criminal Cases Review; British Justice?; Policing: Rev. Faul; RUC Perjury Charges; Lurgan Killings & Colin Duffy; Youth Defence; Suicides)
Flanagan & Mowlam, Joe Keenan
Unionism & Protestant Society, Mark Langhammer
SEPTEMBER 1997
Haughey & The Petty-Bourgeoisie, Editorial
Hume Or McGuinness For President?, E. Courtney
Fifth Column (ICTU & Bloody Sunday; SF In Dail; Churchill & Spain)
A Cautionary Tale! (Transcript)
Northern News Digest (Adams & Union; July Days; Orange Marches; IRA Ceasefire; SF Apology; McGuinness v. Maginnis; International Representation For North; Home Rule Again?; British Labour 'Gerrymander'; SF To Enter Talks)
Northern Ireland Ministers & Accountability: A Revelation (Transcript & Comment)
Loyalist History (Review; Oxfam; 'Flegs'), Seán McGouran
Myanmar Postscript, E. Courtney
The Freedom To Negotiate (Mc Guinness/Maginnis Debate), Joe Keenan
Crossed Paths In The 'Democracy' Puzzle
OCTOBER 1997
The Snarling Begins
The Irish Presidency, E. Courtney
Fifth Column (One Parasite Down; Famous Albanian; Spooks; Diuretic)
Cost Of Presidents (Report)
Wise Words From Garret! (Report)
Reynolds In West Belfast, Sean McGouran
Northern News Digest (Taylor Interview; IRA Peace; Alderdice Criticises Mowlam; Larne Attack On Diana; Chief Constable Questions Permanence; IRA Mitchell Problems; Adams Compromise Hint; Diana; UUP Drops Parallel Decommision)
The British Way Of Revisionism, Brendan Clifford
Diana, Princess
Age Of Consent, Joe Keenan
Croppies Stand Up!, Dr. Pat Walsh
Edmund Burke & The Oath, Angela Clifford
Russia: Remembrance Of Times Past, S. McGouran
NOVEMBER 1997
President McAleese, Editorial
Jim Kemmy, A Political Tribute By Pat Maloney
Presidental Election Result
Fifth Column (CLMC Dissolves; Jewish Pogroms; SF, The Co-operative Party; Labour Politicking)
A Parasite Writes On Kemmy—Conor Cruise, Jack Lane
Northern News Digest (Annesley Criticises Major; Continuity Army; Talks Agenda Clash; Orange & Black; IRSP & McGuinness; Ervine & Jail Transfer; IRA Divisions; Molyneaux On Leaks)
Cabinet Confidentiality And Real Politics, Angela Clifford
Cabinet Confidentiality Referendum Result
Twenty Years A-Growing, Joe Keenan
Toland & The Leprechauns, Brendan Clifford
DECEMBER 1997
Ireland And Iraq, Editorial
New Leader, Pat Maloney
Living On The Edge, J. Keenan
Fifth Column (Words; Mary & Dana: Ulster's Revenge?; Macedonians)
Policing In Northern Ireland
E. Courtney
Introducing Partnership Into Local Government, Mark Langhammer
ASEAN: EU Bully Tactics Fail
Northern News Digest (Unionist Poll; Belfast City Council; Anti -Terror Law; Presidential Election Result; Continuity Army; Pan-Unionists; SF Pleads for IRA unity; James Winston Guilty; IRA Hold-ups; Army Patrols; Loyalist Riot)
New Dialogue Meeting At Labour Party Conference, BC
Editor's Note On Conference
Endgame—Or Stalemate?
Sean McGouran
McAleese On Role Of Presidency; Angela Clifford
A Word On Derek Nally, AC
Legal Digest (Dublin High Court; Mountjoy Jail; Irish Courts Agency; RUC & Talks; Police Authority)
Labour Comment by P. Maloney: Quo Vadis, Dick Spring?
Democratic Left
Vote Buying Act
PR Reform
JANUARY 1998
The Peace Quadrille, Editorial
£20 million for GAA?, E. Courtney
Fifth Column: Scotland—A Cooperative Commonwealth; Blair's Blubbing
Babes; The Bonny Tank Commander (!); Georgia On My Mind?
A Rich Man's Budget, John Martin
Northern News Digest: Attwood demands vote reform: John Lloyd to head
Think-Tank; RUC Swearing to End; Farmers Demand Aid; McCartney
Explains Peace Process; Gary Adams Explains INLA; SF Dissidents;
Toraidhe Defined; Democracy Now, New Secretary; Saulters Re-elected;
Derry Street Violence; Funerals
Francis Stuart And The Jewish Question
Legal Digest: Prisoner Transfers; NI Prisoner Releases; Contract Working
Labour Comment : Edited by Pat Maloney—Partnership: Workers Look On!
FEBRUARY 1998
The Talks Zig-Zag, Editorial
Euro-Phobia, Angela Clifford
Tables: Changes In Irish Economy Since Joining European Union, 1973-97
EU: Irish Receipts And Payments
Fifth Column (Rebel Dreams; Tankograd Revisited; 'Tiger' Loses Its Nerve)
Northern News Digest (Joel Patton & Marches; Maze Regime and Wright Murder; Paisley Blames NIO; Francis Stuart Explains; Ervine: LVF & Respectable Politicians; Blueprint Responses; Summary Of Heads OfAgreement; Daily Telegraph Security Theories; IRA On Blueprint)
Geopolitics Revived, Brendan Clifford
Propositions On Heads Of Disagreement, Joe Keenan
As Seen On Radio: Interpreting Stalin`
Haughey Case: The 'Baddie' Takes On The 'Goodies'?, Angela Clifford
Democracy In Northern Ireland And The Outline Heads Of Agreement
Foyle Labour Group Statement
A Timely Release?, Joe Keenan
Remembrance Sunday: Raking Over The Past, BC
Labour Comment by Pat Maloney::
Ryanair Dispute: Crunch Time For Partnership
Text Of Draft Agreement On Trade Union Recognition
MARCH 1998
Northern Ireland: Rules Change!, Editorial
Ryanair & Union Rights, E. Courtney
Fifth Column (Dev The Fascist; Collaborator?; Paddy Go Home
Letter From Israel, Hans
Labour's Peace Proposals, Press Release, Foyle Labour Group
Northern News Digest (Sinn Fein Expelled From Talks; RUC Poll;
Ahern & Frameworks; Talks Money; Assembly Clash; Gun Control;
McMichael On North-South Links; UUP Discontent; SDLP vs. SF;
Trimble Speaks To Adams; Ahern's Vision)
A Catholic WASP (!!) View Of America & Iraq
The Peace Process That Passeth All Understanding, Joe Keenan
Ending British Party Political Broadcasts In Northern Ireland (report)
The P.J. McGrory Memorial Lectures, Sean McGouran
The Swiss Approach To The Heroin Problem, John Martin
Iraq: Some Facts, Chris Smith (Reader's Letter)
Partnership For War!, E. Courtney
Who Are The United Nations 'Peace-Keepers'? (report)
Labour Comment by Pat Maloney
No Quinn Super-Sale!
APRIL 1998
Gleichschaltung: The Kelly/Murphy/Mandelson Plan, Editorial
Turning Point For Irish Labour? Account of Conference Economy Debate
Fifth Column (Arm & Hammer—Not The Toothpaste; The Race Police;
Stalin And North Belfast (And Bank Jobs))
Labour Activist Opposes Sale Of Semi-State Firms (Report)
"Labour In Northern Ireland", Labour Party Conference Report
CLR Meeting, Labour Party Conference Report
People's Champion, Sean McGouran (review)
Northern News Digest (Loyalists On Parades Commission; Tony Blair Cool On
Integrated Education; Poll Results; Articles 2 & 3; LVF Threats; British
Beef To Be Banned In NI; Trimble Opposes 'Third Centre Of Government";
DUP/LVF Anti-Peace Rally; Assembly Clash; Ahern Holds To Frameworks)
Ryanair And Democracy, E. Courtney
Parades: Commission Part Of The Problem?
By-Election Results (Dublin North; Limerick East)
To The Devil A Pamphlet, Joe Keenan (review)
LABOUR COMMENT by Pat Maloney
Credit Unions: A Community Asset
Jack McQuillan Retrospect
Revaluation
Local Partnership: Problems At Bausch & Lomb
MAY 1998
Northern Ireland: Forward To The Confessional State?! Editorial
Vive La France!—Angela Clifford
Fifth Column—(The Politics Of Quotation Marks; United Unionism; Operation Sealion—A Fiction; The Company They Keep)
The "Negotiators"
An Overview Of Irish Industrial Relations Pat Murphy
The Coming Summer Of Our Discontent, And A Sectarian Winter To Follow Joe Keenan
Some Gruesome Culture (Review)Sean McGouran
Northern News Digest(Trimble Hails Democracy; Mitchell Streses DeCommissioning; Mo Manners; 'No' Right'; IRA Split; Manners Maketh Mo; Sinn Fein Says Yes; Maginnis Pleased At SF Decision)
On The Nature Of The European Union—Fergus O'Rahallaigh
Inflation: A Tale Of Two Economies John Martin
Labour Comment Edited by Pat Maloney
Stone Mad Gardai: Partnership 2000 And The Irish Police Strike
JUNE 1998
Post-History In No-Man's-Land Editorial
Five Cheers For India E. Courtney
Fifth Column (In tSeapáin tír a deanta?; Vaclav Havel; A Spectre? Sweet Georgia)
Stormont Quondam, Stormont Futurum:-- Stormont Furiosum! Joe Keenan
Labouring Under An Illusion? Sean McGouran
Referendum Leaflets SMcG
Partnership Governance: A Reply; Mark Langhammer (letter)
Northern News Digest (Blair Warning; UDP Hails Stone; Molyneaux No;
Unionists Argue; Republic Vote; Tory Rethink; Sniper Seeks Work; Mackay Speaks; 'Unionist Project Doomed'; Doherty Rejects Decommissioning)
On Irish False Memory; Brendan Clifford
The Age Of Empire And Jay's Fluent Nonsense; S. McGouran
Eoghan Harris Writing About Eoghan Harris JK
An 'Other' Story! Report
Decommissioning: J. de Chastelain; S. Mallon. D. Burnside (Report)
Seamus McKee Becomes Emotional! (Report)
LABOUR COMMENT edited by Pat Maloney:
Land: End Of An Era (Disbanding Of Land Commission)
JULY 1998
Northern Ireland: The Eternal March Editorial
Democratic Barbarians?
Fifth Column (May Day Postscript; Fall-out From The Referendum; Poster War)
John Hume Opts Out
Husserl's Phenomenology Gets An Outing In Belfast
Labour Election Address To Voters Of South Belfast (Niall Cusack)
Self-Bribery?
Northern News Digest (Labour Ghosts; Bleakley Return; Cusack Protest; Queen's Carve-up; UDP Decommissioning Call; Trimble Trouble; UDP Defeated; SDLP Generosity; Mallon For Deputy; Arson Attacks)
Northern Ireland: Some Recent Phenomena (Alliance In Turmoil; Croppies Lie Down; Of War And Peace) Joe Keenan
Assembly Voting: Some Crooked Dealing
The New Gerrymander
Letters To Editor: Partnership Governance Joe Keenan; Israeli PM Not A Fascist Esme Geering
Labour Comment edited by Pat Maloney. GAA RULE CHANGE: Lee Clegg Fails To Take The Puck Out
AUGUST 1998
A Peace Which Passeth All Understanding Editorial
The Unexpected Relevance Of The First Dail Editorial
Fifth Column (Guadeloupe Wins World Cup; Tsar Boris?; Not Very Nice Chaps For The Union)
The Irish Economy: A Case Of Misdirected Output Kieran Crilly
Winter Of Discontent Sean McGouran
A New Era Of Peace And Tolerance And Overwhelming, Never-Ending, Sectarian Tension Joe Keenan
Northern News Digest (Bew Labour; Loyalists Take On British Army; McMichael Formula; Donaldson Offers Leadership; Weapons Move; Orangemen Lose At Drumcree; Irish Times Claim; Peace Casualties Mount; Real IRA)
Democracy Versus Legality Brendan Clifford
Three Referendums And An Assembly, part one Angela Clifford
Democratic Electorates (Letter) Samuel Adams
LABOUR COMMENT. Edited by Pat Maloney:: Partnership 2000: Where To Now?
SEPTEMBER 1998
Omagh, Editorial
Monica Missiles, Editorial
Fifth Column (Thirty Years On; A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum; The Third Rome Re-Asserts Itself)
"Real IRA" vs. real IRA, Editorial
Dysentry And Concentration Camps (TV review of The Boer War), Sean McGouran
News Digest (Flanagan Lowers Flags; Prisoner Release; Taylor Opposes; Loyalists Push Mo; Unionism Dying; DUP View; Conditional Release; Real Cash; Real Horror; INLA Ceasefire)
The Assembly Election (Part 2: Three Referedums And An Election), Angela Clifford, Pat Muldowney
Mossad: The View From Within (Book review), Esme Geering
LABOUR COMMENT edited by Pat Maloney: Ryanair Report: No Progress On Trade Union Recognition
OCTOBER 1998
Trimble: Politician Or Covenanter?
Malaysia: Ireland Joins The Globalist Onslaught
Report From Labour In Northern Ireland; Letter To Irish Labour Representatives, Councillor Mark Langhammer
Fifth Column (The Great British Poet; Reality-Check? Swinging With Uncle Joe)
Book And Television Reviews: The World As Seen From The South; Evil Empire, Sean McGouran
Northern News Digest (Neeson Succeeds Alderdice; Draculaw; Real IRA Cease fire; Continuity IRA 'Defunct'; Adam Hundles Trimble; Queen's Defended; UUP Teases SDLP; Decommissioning; Trimble-Adams Deadlock)
A Local Hero? (Review of "The General"), John Martin
LABOUR COMMENT edited by Pat Maloney —Shared Values? Company Shares And Industrial Democracy
NOVEMBER 1998
The Belfast Agreement Rewritten, Editorial
Crony Capitalism In Dublin 4, Angela Clifford
Fifth Column (The Road From Garvaghey; Old Gaudillos Never Die. . .; 'Falashas', Ethiopia And Israel)
Swan Song From Cuckoo Cruise O'Brien? Conor Cruise O'Brien Flees The Unionist Nest, Brendan Clifford
Three Fringe Meetings At The Labour Party Conference, Blackpool Report of Sinn Fein, Workers' Party and LINI meetingswith Comment, BC
Northern News Digest (Opera Ireland; Red Hand Killings; Nobel Prize; Integrated Education; 'Union First'; O'Brien Quits UKUP; Cruiser's New Idea; McCartney Poet Laureate?; Ahern On Deadlock)
A Philadelphia Story, Review by Sean McGouran
Cork South Central Election Result
CSCS Benefit Concert
LABOUR COMMENT by Pat Maloney: Yes, Dick! Yes, Dick! (review of Fergus Finlay memoirs)
DECEMBER 1998
SDLP: The Slowest Learners?, Editorial
Imperial Ireland Coming Home? And A Constitutional Innovation, Angela Clifford
Fifth Column: The Second Wickedest Man In The World?; A Place In Belgium; All Singin', All Dancin' Uncle Stalin!
"FF's Neutrality Defences Crumbling", Report
Poppycock On Remembrance Day, Brendan Clifford
Index for 1998
Northern News Digest: SDLP Place Race; Provis In Community; RUC To Go; NI Tories Soldier On; UN Pressure On RUC; Union First Meeting; Orange Volunteers; Blair Blind Eye; SDLP Escapes Again; Trimble Crumble; Paisley Gives Figures
NATO Military Adventurism, Report by E. Courtney
Kosovo, E. Courtney
The Last Word: World War One; Clinton, John Martin
LABOUR COMMENT edited by Pat Maloney: Ned Should Know! The State of Irish Farming