The Starmer project is going up in smoke – but if the left cannot swiftly build a viable alternative, the country faces the grim reality of a hard-right takeover, says ANDREW MURRAY
WHEN Angela Davis addressed a group of over 700 people in the Whitla Hall at Belfast Queen’s University in 2017, I was immensely proud. This was her second visit to Belfast, her first being in 1994.
She told the audience how she received that invitation when she met women from Ireland in Moscow at the World Congress of Women.
In 1987 a delegation of 42 women from the length and breadth of Ireland went to Moscow — trade unionists, community activists, communists, all were thrilled to meet Angela.
The unifying victory of Irish progressive forces in the presidential campaign should be a salutary lesson to the left in this country, argues MARY GRIFFITHS CLARKE
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



