IRISH communists expressed scepticism yesterday after the UUP and SDLP vowed to offer an alternative to the Stormont power-sharing government.
Nationalist SDLP leader Colum Eastwood addressed the unionist UUP conference in Belfast on Saturday, accusing the DUP-Sinn Fein executive of “all guff and no government.”
The Foyle MLA claimed the “cosy establishment” running the executive had failed the people and eroded trust in the effectiveness of the devolved institutions.
Despite Andy Burnham’s declaration defending the continued partition of the island, all major international and internal trends are converging to make Irish reunification inevitable
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



