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NORTHERN IRISH trade unions will campaign to stay in the European Union (EU), their federation the ICTU said yesterday.
The Northern Ireland Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (NIC-ICTU) called on workers to vote In and fight for a “social Europe.”
The announcement came two days after the Communist Party of Ireland called for an overwhelming vote for Northern Ireland and Britain to leave the EU, calling it anti-democratic and imperialist.
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
Investing the £75 billion slated for defence spending on a green new deal, healthcare and education would create jobs and help communities far more than weapons spending, argues UCU general secretary JO GRADY
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
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