IRISH trade unionists and communists urged have urged workers to defy the Establishment and vote Leave next week.
Former Irish Congress of Trade Unions Northern Ireland Committee (NIC-Ictu) chair Joe Bowers went head-to-head with Ictu assistant general secretary Peter Bunting in a debate organised by Craigavon Trades Council on Thursday night.
Mr Bowers criticised the support of Ictu and the British TUC for the Remain campaign.
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
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT


