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Jeremy Corbyn speaks at Queens University Belfast
WE can usually count on Jeremy Corbyn to approach complex and sensitive issues in a clear and principled way, and his speech today in Belfast was a good example of this.
Much of the recent public discussion, in Britain at least, about Northern Ireland has been dominated by those willing to use the territory as a tool to advance their particular view of how, or whether, Brexit should be carried out.
People who had not previously taken an obvious interest in the wellbeing of the people of Ireland, north or south, have grasped their megaphones to declare what a disaster this or that might be, and how the Irish are doomed unless things are done a certain way.
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
The independent TD’s campaign has put important issues like Irish reunification and military neutrality at the heart of the political conversation, argues SEAN MacBRADAIGH
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