The Loyalist Association of Workers (LAW) was a militant unionist organisation in Northern Ireland that sought to mobilise trade union members in support...
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Ulster loyalism (redirect from Loyalist paramilitaries)
(approximately 80%) were held by loyalist marching bands. Third Force Loyalist Association of Workers Ulster Workers' Council Ulster Political Research...
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Loyalism (redirect from Loyalist point of view)
county formed a Loyalist Association of Workers in an effort to counter a perceived threat from radical societies. The first such association was founded...
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Workers' Council was a loyalist workers' organisation set up in Northern Ireland in 1974 as a more formalised successor to the Loyalist Association of...
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The Ulster Defence Association (UDA) is an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland. It was formed in September 1971 as an umbrella group...
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former leading loyalist in Northern Ireland. He was sometimes known by the nickname 'Coco'. White was a leading figure in the loyalist paramilitary group...
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mobilisation of the loyalist working classes was taken over by more militant groups such as the Loyalist Association of Workers and the Ulster Workers' Council...
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Ulster Young Militants (category Ulster Defence Association)
Militants (UYM) are considered to be the youth wing of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland. Commonly...
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Billy Hull (category Ulster Defence Association members)
during the early years of the Troubles. He is most remembered for being the leader of the Loyalist Association of Workers, a loyalist trade union-styled movement...
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former loyalist paramilitary. A leading figure within the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), Barrett was involved in collusion between loyalists and the...
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Association of Workers, a militant Unionist organisation in Northern Ireland that sought to mobilize trade union members in support of the Loyalist cause...
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Ulster Loyalist Central Co-ordinating Committee (ULCCC) was set up in 1974 in Belfast, Northern Ireland in the aftermath of the Ulster Workers Council...
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Ulster Protestant Volunteers (category Ulster loyalist militant groups)
delegation of representatives from Larne-based loyalist organisations including the UPV, Loyalist Association of Workers (UPV), Ulster Defence Association (UDA)...
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Aboriginal cotton workers in Wee Waa, Australia. One-day Loyalist Association of Workers Day of Action in Northern Ireland. Wave of students strikes in...
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Woodvale Defence Association (WDA) was an Ulster loyalist vigilante group in the Woodvale district of Belfast, an area immediately to the north of the Shankill...
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Matt Kincaid (category Ulster Defence Association members)
Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary leader and activist. Kincaid is the head of the West Belfast Brigade of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA). Kincaid...
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Jimbo Simpson (category Ulster Defence Association members)
a Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary. He was most noted for his time as Brigadier of the North Belfast Ulster Defence Association (UDA). After falling...
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The Troubles (redirect from RUC-loyalist collusion)
the part of loyalist paramilitaries and workers, who formed the Ulster Workers' Council. They organised a general strike, the Ulster Workers' Council...
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Jackie Thompson (redirect from Jackie Thompson (loyalist))
Jackie, is a Belfast-born Northern Irish loyalist activist who was a senior member of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA). Thompson was close to Johnny Adair...
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1981 – 28 May 2003) was a leading Northern Irish loyalist and a member of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA). He served as the organisation's military...
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loyalist paramilitary. Millar was a leading member of the West Belfast Brigade of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) until 2003 when he was one of a...
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Baird, the group included representatives from loyalist paramilitary groups the Ulster Defence Association, Down Orange Welfare and the Orange Volunteers...
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Loyalist Association of Workers, a joint UVF-Ulster Defence Association (UDA) front organisation which was eventually merged into the Ulster Workers'...
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Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party (category Ulster loyalist organisations)
was one of the only parties to support the two-day general strike organised by the Loyalist Association of Workers in protest at the internment of Protestants...
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John Freeman (trade unionist) (category Presidents of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions)
Irish republicans in 1971, and faced intimidation from the Loyalist Association of Workers. He was forced to leave his job, but the ATGWU found him full-time...
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Irish former loyalist activist. Spence became notorious for his time in the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), serving two spells in charge of the West Belfast...
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between and within the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) as well as, later, the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF). Although...
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Tommy Herron (category Ulster Defence Association members)
14 September 1973) was a Northern Ireland loyalist and a leading member of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) until his death in a fatal shooting....
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of Beechmount Avenue & the Falls Road while manning a vehicle checkpoint. 22 August 1972: The IRA shot dead a member of the Loyalist Association of Workers...
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Irish former loyalist paramilitary leader. Robinson held the rank of "Brigadier" in the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and was leader of the organisation's...
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