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Fighting for workers and eco-socialism.

12/10/2026

While ultimatley the Secretary of State made the correct decision to ban the parade down Garvaghy Road, the community who live there should never have been subjected to their rights & security being up for debate.

Regardless of the legal outcome, the lived reality of people on & around the Garvaghy Road has been increased fear. Fear that after years of progress, the rug can be pulled from under their feet. That they could find themselves 30 years in the past, holding onto loved ones for dear life while waiting for the PSNI to drag them off of their own road. To be used as political pawns by Unionism trying to distract from their deep failure in governing for all working class people across this statelet.

Increased surveillance of the Garvaghy Road is ongoing, with multiple PSNI cars driving up and down it every day. In the week leading up to the standoff and throughout, the families around the Garvaghy Road grew accustomed to hearing helicopters overhead at night, seeing riot vans placed along the walk to the train station, being surveilled during the day by drones.

With flashpoints of resistance breaking out across the world, efforts to normalise state violence against communities will only continue to increase. From ICE to France’s National Police to the IDF to the PSNI, use of force against civilian populations is becoming more brutal and viable in the public eye.

We cannot allow the use of force and violence from the state against people who are standing up for their basic human rights, to become normalised.
Residents of the Garvaghy Road refuse to go back to times of state harassment, intimidation and violence. Be that through the laws, the courts or the PSNI.

05/10/2026

Yesterday hundreds of people who had gathered to support the Garvaghy Road, had the honour of holding the Blanket of Remembrance, 2,600 six-inch granny squares representing 26,000 murdered children in Palestine. Made by

Three years of genocide, armed and aided by both Irish and British governments and institutions. Billions spent on violent Zionist domination, ever expanding brutality on neighbouring countries such as Lebanon. While at home, increasing numbers of people are made homeless, families struggle to put food on the table, and our public infrastructure suffers cut after cut.
“They got money for wars but can’t feed the poor.”
By October first, the cost of policing the 2026 reignition of the Drumcree Dispute sat at 3 million pounds. Money that could have been used on housing, climate security or food sovereignty, was instead utilised to try enforce a supremacist march.

Make no mistake, the people power we’ve seen rise out of Garvaghy Road is the exact reason Britain wants to keep the north of Ireland - we are stronger together. Forging a new Ireland means building democracy that actually listens to the public, who for the last three years have been vocal and visible in their opposition towards funding and arming genocide.

We must ensure any future we build is one that resists all forms of supremacy, occupation and genocide.

04/10/2026

The 2026 reignition of the Drumcree Dispute could have ended with the Garvaghy Road community retraumatised & forced off their street. With the community used as a diversion from the deep failures of Stormont & scandals of Unionist politicians.

Instead, for the first time ever, Irish music is playing openly on the streets of Portadown, Gaeltacht pop up tents have appeared to teach the community Irish, and solidarity has been shown by the whole of Ireland.

are committed to seeing a new, united Ireland forged with Garvaghy Road as an inspiration. Through peace & people power, where fáilte roimh chách & can hear music filling their streets.

04/10/2026

A week since the proposed Orange Order march down the Garvaghy Road last Sunday, and still the community with support from across Ireland have prevented the efforts to march since.
People Before Profit have been on the ground every day, doing night shifts, playing music with the community and providing consistent solidarity.
We will remain until the community feels safe from the threat of the march and can return to their normal lives.

03/10/2026

Amazing turnout for the Garvaghy Road again. Unlike the TUV’s crowd this one hasn’t been ai generated. We aren’t going back.

02/10/2026

‼️Tomorrow 3pm
All out to show support to the community on and around the Garvaghy Road who stood steadfast in the face of sectarianism, and who continue to hold the line!

28/09/2026

Chris Bryant talks about finding a compromise where everyone walks away with their honour intact. Residents of the Garvaghy Road have nothing left to compromise. They have already given 28 years of quiet, and this week they were asked to hand over their safety and their dignity as well.

There is no halfway house between a community’s right to live in peace and an attempt to dominate it. Describing this as mediation doesn’t change the outlandish ask of residents. The Secretary of State says nobody has asked him to use his powers, but he could act tonight if he wants to.

Residents are standing on their road again this evening in the cold, because every institution that was supposed to protect them has failed them. Their courage and their discipline have been extraordinary. They have asserted their rights themselves when nobody else would, and People Before Profit will keep standing with them for as long as it takes - Gerry Carroll MLA

27/09/2026

The moment at Drumcree Community Centre when news came through that the High Court had ruled against the planned Orange Order march up the Garvaghy Road tomorrow.

The Orange Order is now launching an appeal, but this is a significant and positive result for the Garvaghy Road community.

24/09/2026

When regressive Unionism threatens to set the community of the Garvaghy Road back 30 years, to times of suspicion, fear and murder - It’s the work of local volunteers at the Drumcree Centre that pushes the community forward, ensuring that everybody between the eldest to the youngest in this area, have somewhere safe to go during times of anxiety and crisis.

This summer, during the race pogrom in Portadown, while the authorities looked away. It was the Drumcree Community Centre that mobilised to ensure the safety of our black and brown communities. If disorder breaks out this weekend in Portadown, it will be the Drumcree Centre the community turns to again for safety and support.

There’s no praise high enough for the volunteers at this community centre, who have spent the last month organising relentlessly to prevent the proposed Orange Order march down the Garvaghy Road. Any support, monetary or otherwise, especially over this coming weekend - would go a long way in ensuring the centre keeps running, and that both the nationalist and migrant communities in always have a safe haven.

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