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  1. March 7, 1965 - 525 civil rights advocates began a 54-mile march on a Sunday morning from Selma, Alabama, to the capital of Montgomery, to promote voting rights for blacks. Just after crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the outskirts of Selma, the marchers were attacked in what became known as Bloody Sunday.

    Enforcing an order by Governor George Wallace, the group was broken up by state troopers and volunteer officers of the Dallas County sheriff who used tear gas, nightsticks, bullwhips and rubber tubing wrapped in barbed wire. John Lewis, then head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and a leader of the march, suffered a fractured skull.

    ABC television interrupted a Nazi war crimes drama, “Judgment at Nuremberg,” to show footage of the violence in Selma, confusing some viewers about who was beating whom.

    #BloodySunday

  2. 2.30pm assemble at the Creggan shops on February 1st 2026 for the 54th annual Bloody Sunday march

    bloodysundaymarch.org/

    #BloodySunday

  3. "What Happened in Derry?"

    Written by Eamonn McCann in 1972, and published by the International Socialists (later SWP).

    leftarchive.ie/document/319/

    #Ireland #BloodySunday

  4. To mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in 2022, we spoke to Dr. Brian Hanley about the reaction in the Republic of Ireland to the events in Derry on 30th January 1972, when British soldiers opened fire on civil rights marchers, killing 14 and injuring several others.

    The reaction in the South saw walkouts and strikes, a national day of mourning, the burning of the British embassy in Dublin, and mass protests around the country.

    podcast.leftarchive.ie/@ILAPod

    #Ireland #BloodySunday

  5. A 1972 poster from the Revolutionary Marxist Group (RMG), then Irish section of the Fourth International.

    #Ireland #BloodySunday

  6. #resist #resistauthoritarianism #resistfascism #BloodySunday

    The Irish have been where we are now.

    On 30 Jan 1972, soldiers of 1 Para (1 Battalion, Parachute Regiment) opened fire on unarmed, nonviolent protestors in Derry, demonstrating against internment without trial. 14 died of the 26 shot. Others were injured by shrapnel, rubber bullets, or beatings. Several were run over by Army vehicles. 1 Para was also involved in killing 11 individuals in Belfast in Aug 1971. All were UK citizens.

  7. January 30, 1972 - In Londonderry (aka Derry), Northern Ireland, unarmed civil rights demonstrators were shot dead by British Army paratroopers in an event that became known as "Bloody Sunday." The protesters, all Catholics, had been marching in protest of the British policy of internment without trial of suspected Irish nationalists.

    British authorities had ordered the march banned, and sent troops to confront the demonstrators when it went ahead. The soldiers fired indiscriminately into the crowd of protesters, ultimately killing 14 and wounding 17. By the end of the year 323 civilians and 144 military and paramilitary personnel would be dead.

    #BloodySunday

  8. #BloodySunday took place #OTD 1920. Between 1948 and 1954, Ernie O'Malley interviewed c.400 of his revolutionary colleagues, some of them IRA men who were involved in the killings of the British intelligence officers that day. Here Matty MacDonald describes the killing of Captain G.T. Baggally.
    1/2

  9. "#BloodySunday is the most notorious example of #stateViolence in the north — but it is not unique. Across the north of #Ireland, hundreds of families bereaved by the British state faced the same brick wall: no investigation, no disclosure, no accountability." - John Finucane

    "The #BloodySundayMurderTrial Shows the Reality of #BritishJustice": tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/the-b

    #SoldierF #NorthernIreland #UKpol #UKpolitics #UKjustice

  10. "#BloodySunday is the most notorious example of #stateViolence in the north — but it is not unique. Across the north of #Ireland, hundreds of families bereaved by the British state faced the same brick wall: no investigation, no disclosure, no accountability." - John Finucane

    "The #BloodySundayMurderTrial Shows the Reality of #BritishJustice": tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/the-b

    #SoldierF #NorthernIreland #UKpol #UKpolitics #UKjustice

  11. "#BloodySunday is the most notorious example of #stateViolence in the north — but it is not unique. Across the north of #Ireland, hundreds of families bereaved by the British state faced the same brick wall: no investigation, no disclosure, no accountability." - John Finucane

    "The #BloodySundayMurderTrial Shows the Reality of #BritishJustice": tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/the-b

    #SoldierF #NorthernIreland #UKpol #UKpolitics #UKjustice

  12. "#BloodySunday is the most notorious example of #stateViolence in the north — but it is not unique. Across the north of #Ireland, hundreds of families bereaved by the British state faced the same brick wall: no investigation, no disclosure, no accountability." - John Finucane

    "The #BloodySundayMurderTrial Shows the Reality of #BritishJustice": tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/the-b

    #SoldierF #NorthernIreland #UKpol #UKpolitics #UKjustice

  13. @DerekHolly7
    Shot in the back while trying to escape and yet the soldier didn't intend to kill?
    No justice at all
    #bloodysunday

  14. Thinking of the victims murdered in cold blood on Bloody Sunday, and their families. The Bloody Sunday families continue to endure with dignity in the face of colonial impunity.
    #BloodySunday

  15. So, multiple soldiers "totally lost all sense of military discipline"  and peaceful protestors ended up dead.

    Yet no one is held accountable.

    I can't really call that justice.

    #NorthernIreland #BloodySunday #SoldierF

    BBC News - bbc.co.uk/news/live/cglgk5p1l3
    Reaction as Soldier F found not guilty of all charges in Bloody Sunday murder trial - BBC News

  16. So, multiple soldiers "totally lost all sense of military discipline"  and peaceful protestors ended up dead.

    Yet no one is held accountable.

    I can't really call that justice.

    #NorthernIreland #BloodySunday #SoldierF

    BBC News - bbc.co.uk/news/live/cglgk5p1l3
    Reaction as Soldier F found not guilty of all charges in Bloody Sunday murder trial - BBC News

  17. So, multiple soldiers "totally lost all sense of military discipline"  and peaceful protestors ended up dead.

    Yet no one is held accountable.

    I can't really call that justice.

    #NorthernIreland #BloodySunday #SoldierF

    BBC News - bbc.co.uk/news/live/cglgk5p1l3
    Reaction as Soldier F found not guilty of all charges in Bloody Sunday murder trial - BBC News

  18. So, multiple soldiers "totally lost all sense of military discipline"  and peaceful protestors ended up dead.

    Yet no one is held accountable.

    I can't really call that justice.

    #NorthernIreland #BloodySunday #SoldierF

    BBC News - bbc.co.uk/news/live/cglgk5p1l3
    Reaction as Soldier F found not guilty of all charges in Bloody Sunday murder trial - BBC News

  19. @bbcnews And Dave Cleary, aka "Soldier F", is somehow found not guilty for murdering multiple unarmed civilians during Bloody Sunday...

    #SoldierF #BloodySunday

  20. @bbcnews And Dave Cleary, aka "Soldier F", is somehow found not guilty for murdering multiple unarmed civilians during Bloody Sunday...

    #SoldierF #BloodySunday

  21. @bbcnews And Dave Cleary, aka "Soldier F", is somehow found not guilty for murdering multiple unarmed civilians during Bloody Sunday...

    #SoldierF #BloodySunday

  22. @bbcnews And Dave Cleary, aka "Soldier F", is somehow found not guilty for murdering multiple unarmed civilians during Bloody Sunday...

    #SoldierF #BloodySunday

  23. Families march to a Belfast court as the Bloody Sunday trial begins.

    Families of the victims of the 1972 Bloody Sunday killings marched to Belfast's courthouse on Monday ahead of the trial of the only person ever charged.

    They carried photos of the 13 people killed and walked behind a banner reading “Towards Justice,” marking more than 50 years of efforts to hold someone accountable.

    mediafaro.org/article/20250916

    #Belfast #BloodySunday #NorthernIreland #UK #Court #Legal #Troubles #History

  24. Thank you #HeatherCoxRichardson for putting things into perspective...
    " On August 6th, Dr. King and Mrs. Boynton were guests of honor as President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Recalling the outrage of Selma, Johnson said, this right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies."
    Let's not forget that of all the rights Americans enjoy, the #RightToVote is the most consequential!
    #LyndonJohnson #BloodySunday #GOPVoterSuppression
    heathercoxrichardson.substack.

  25. Fourteen people died: thirteen were killed outright, while the death of another man four months later was attributed to his injuries. Many of the victims were shot while fleeing from the soldiers, and some were shot while trying to help the wounded. 2/2

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #BloodySunday #Bogside #Derry #OnThisDay

  26. On 30 January 1972 British soldiers from the 1st Battalion of the Parachute Regiment shot 26 unarmed civilians during a march in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland. The march had been organised to protest against the introduction of internment without trial. The massacre became known as 'Bloody Sunday'. 1/2

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #BloodySunday #Bogside #Derry #OnThisDay