Featuring prominent trade unionists, politicians, political activists, academics and researchers, a book was published this week by Scottish Labour’s Red Paper Collective, focused on the constitutional debate, but with a wider application in the battle of ideas for a fairer Scotland. Class, Nation and Socialism, available now at £7.99, takes an unashamedly class-based perspective, but has […]
Posts under ‘Nationalism/Unionism’
A radical alternative for Scotland with lessons for the rest of Britain
Sep 15th, 2013 by Jon Lansman.
Adams and Powell to address Ireland conference in London
Sep 4th, 2013 by Newsdesk.A conference in London next month will see Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams and others address a series of themes relating to the place of Ireland in the twenty-first century. Titled “Towards a new Ireland – a new phase of the peace process”, the conference, hosted by Sinn Féin, will consider the economic future of the […]
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Austerity is hurting Ireland, north and south
Jul 19th, 2013 by Conor Murphy.People in Ireland are struggling under the impact of austerity policies. So too are people in Britain. We often have more in common than we think. In many countries in the Euro Area the ‘Troika’, the EU Commission, the European Central Bank and the IMF have imposed very harsh austerity measures. But in 2008 the […]
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Belfast, riots and class: a tale of two cities
Jul 10th, 2013 by Jilly Luke.The arrival of Swedish students to my Northern Ireland school was cheerfully described as an ‘exchange’ trip. But the closest we ever got to Stockholm was a jaunt down the road to IKEA. No – the icily beautiful Swedes would breeze into our lives, ruffle everyone’s feathers by saying our blazers and ties were “like […]
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Scotland: lament Lamont?
Jan 28th, 2013 by Pauline Bryan.Johann Lamont, the Labour leader in Scotland, has established two commissions. The first was a means of forestalling a motion that called on the Party to explore other options for constitutional change in Scotland rather than settling for the status quo. The second arose out of a speech Lamont made suggesting that all universal benefits […]
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A border poll – let the people decide
Jan 23rd, 2013 by Gerry Adams.Who would have believed it? Sinn Féin holds a conference in Dublin on Saturday and calls for a border poll in the next term of the Assembly and Oireachtas, and by Tuesday the DUP are supporting it! Of course Arlene Foster backs the idea because she’s convinced that it will deliver the answer she wants. According […]
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I’m up for a sensible debate on British and Irish identities
Jan 22nd, 2013 by Martin McGuinness.The last few weeks have been bad weeks for the political process, bad weeks for the peace process and bad weeks for the vast majority of people who are absolutely wedded to building a new society on this island. I have listened very carefully to the various reasons being put forward by those involved in […]
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No Going Back
Jan 14th, 2013 by Gerry Adams.Belfast 2013 is not the City I grew up in. In my youth and for much of my adult life Belfast was a place in which nationalists had no rights; a place where sectarianism and discrimination, injustice and inequality were commonplace and exercised as a matter of institutional and political practice.
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Full public inquiry needed into Finucane murder and state collusion
Dec 13th, 2012 by Andy Newman.Sinn Féin West Belfast MP, Paul Maskey, after having sight of the de Silva Report into the murder of Belfast Solicitor Pat Finucane, said that its conclusions only serve to reinforce the need for a full Independent Public Inquiry. Paul Maskey said: We fully support the demand by Geraldine Finucane, Pat’s widow and her family for […]
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Scotland: at least Labour could oppose independence independently
Oct 19th, 2012 by David Osler.In a part of Britain in which the population still gets overly excited about the ideological alignments of its football clubs, the British flag is not just a neutral patriotic symbol. Thirteen-year-old Lee Heron was earlier this year sent home from his high school in Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire, for wearing a Union Jack T-shirt his mum […]
