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Expert says Belfast paramilitaries forced children into pogroms to clear drug debts

Post author:Robert Freeman
Post published:19 June 2026
Post last modified:19 June 2026

Belfast — The Commissioner for Children and Young People in the north of Ireland has said loyalist paramilitaries pressured children to engage in violent racist pogroms, in return for writing off money owed to those same gangs. Chris Quinn was speaking to the Irish News. He said the money owed might be “drug debts” or “could be loans”. He gave examples of what he came across first hand when present at racist disorder in Glengormley. Quinn said: We have been informed by reliable people working with these young people, that some of those were brought there to clear debts. I heard an…

20,000 gather in Belfast to denounce violent racist pogroms

Post author:Robert Freeman
Post published:14 June 2026
Post last modified:14 June 2026

A massive crowd of around 20,000 people turned out in Belfast on Saturday June 13 to show support for people driven from their homes by racist mobs earlier in the week. The rally, entitled Together Against Hate, was organised by United Against Racism (UAR). Speaking on Instagram, the group said: This was the biggest anti-racist mobilisation Belfast has ever seen. It reflects the revulsion felt at the 3rd consecutive year of racist pogroms. Speakers from the trade union movement, community groups, anti-racist organisers and political parties addressed the crowd. The riots that took place this week were encouraged by those at…

Belfast pogroms show loyalism is ideal vanguard of a future brownshirt Britain

Post author:Robert Freeman
Post published:13 June 2026
Post last modified:13 June 2026

By now, there has been extensive coverage of the fact that the Belfast pogroms took place almost entirely in loyalist areas. This should surprise no one. Loyalism has always been an exclusivist ideology, predicated on the notion that one population deserves to dominate another that is dismissed as less deserving. Historically of course, this viewpoint dictated that Protestants must be allowed to lord it over Catholics. However, violent sectarianism has largely faded in the north of Ireland, following 1998’s Good Friday Agreement. Instead, loyalism has now applied to immigrants, people of colour and Muslims the bigoted mindset it incubated over centuries.…

Belfast burns, while Met chief points finger at Iran and Russia

Post author:Maddison Wheeldon
Post published:11 June 2026
Post last modified:12 June 2026

On 11 June, Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley appeared on Sky News to discuss the Belfast ‘race-based pogroms,’ following a horrific stabbing attack days earlier. Far-right politicians and pundits, with the help of tech mogul Elon Musk, love nothing more than turning tragedy into a PR stunt. They whip up fear and hate across the UK towards Black and Brown people. Meanwhile, white supremacist thugs have taken to the streets of Belfast, setting fire to the homes and terrorising local residents. It is clear that the situation in Belfast has implications far beyond the city’s limits. When asked about the…

GB News host denies there were ‘riots’ in Belfast

Post author:Willem Moore
Post published:11 June 2026
Post last modified:11 June 2026

On 9 June, an uprising of far-right agitators took to the streets of Belfast. These white rioters burned vehicles and houses, fought with the police, and targeted the homes and businesses of people of colour. According to GB News host Bev Turner, however, you wouldn’t call this a “riot”: A GB News presenter repeatedly insists "there weren't riots" in Belfast last night… This is what GB News advertisers are aligning with pic.twitter.com/lHAiC1SJO3 — Stop Funding Hate (@StopFundingHate) June 10, 2026 Shocking from GB News We’re not sure who Bev Turner’s guest was, but the interview on GB News went like this:…

Politicians and commenters condemn white riots following Belfast stabbing

Post author:The Canary
Post published:10 June 2026
Post last modified:10 June 2026

Politicians and social commentators from across the UK have taken to social media to condemn the racist riots that have swept Belfast – and the shameless far-right agitators who helped fan the flames. As the Canary previously reported, rioters carried out a wave of pogroms in Belfast and nearby towns over the last two days, carrying out arson attacks on homes belonging to people of colour. The racists also attacked businesses they perceived as the property of ‘foreigners’, blocked roads, and set fire to vehicles. The hate crimes followed a knife attack, reportedly perpetrated by a Sudanese man, on the evening of…

Belfast human rights activist could be deported due to Home Office incompetence

Post author:Robert Freeman
Post published:5 June 2026
Post last modified:9 June 2026

Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. In Belfast, Home Office incompetence is threatening Nina Briggs, head of the Migrant Workers’ Union Northern Ireland, with deportation. They insist that Briggs’ active appeal against the unfair Home Office decision does not exist. That is despite an immigration tribunal confirming the department submitted documents in her case in December 2025. Briggs has spent the last 14 years living in Britain or the North of Ireland. Born in the US, she came to Britain to study at St Andrews University in Scotland back in 2012, at age 16. She subsequently entered…