Lessons of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA)

andrew
Sat, 11 Mar 1989 12:47:20 +0000
NICRA, Republicanism, Sectarianism, Community, Imperialism, Repression, Ulster, Newspaper, Analysis

The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) was formed in 1967. Many of its early members were drawn from the Dungannon based Campaign for Social Justice, a middle class grouping who had been collecting data on discrimination since 1964, along with some members of the Republican Movement and the Communist Party of Northern Ireland. Its demands were: one man - one vote; allocation of housing on a points system; redrawing of gerrymandered electoral boundaries; repeal of the Special Powers Act; abolition of the B Specials; and laws against discrimination in local government.