Articles from left wing Irish republican
Tommy McKearney
writing about politics, trade unionism and history
Tommy McKearney is a former member of the IRA who now works as an organiser with the Independent Workers Union and as a freelance journalist. He contributed a weekly article to Daily Ireland and many of the articles available on this site were first printed in that newspaper
Earlier this month, NATO sources reported the death of a security contractor in Afghanistan. The dead man, a former member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, was part of a group supplied by private security firm New Century.
Is this practice different from the recruiting of Black & Tans in an earlier era?
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