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FOUR labour movement figures put the case for and against leaving the European Union before a packed audience at Queen’s University Belfast on Thursday night, writes Lynda Walker.
Irish Congress of Trade Unions assistant general secretary Peter Bunting and Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action’s Lisa McElherron claimed leaving the EU could prompt job losses and attacks on workers’ rights.
But Leave speakers John Hilary, director of War on Want, and Trade Unionists Against the EU chair Doug Nicholls pointed out that the EU was a barrier to socialism.
AARON SMITH discusses why the Protestant diaspora are still part of Yeats’s ‘Indomitable Irishry’, and an integral part of any future united Ireland.
A new group within the NEU is preparing the labour movement for a conversation on Irish unity by arguing that true liberation must be rooted in working-class solidarity and anti-sectarianism, writes ROBERT POOLE
JIM JUMP looks forward to the International Brigade Memorial Trust AGM taking place in Belfast later this week where the spirit of solidarity will be rekindled
Why not pay a visit to Feile an Phobail, a people’s festival of community arts with roots in the days of internment without trial, and where the spirit of solidarity remains undimmed, says LYNDA WALKER