As Scotland heads to the polls, the main parties offer variations on the same script, says MATT KERR
The Life and Times of James Connolly
C Desmond Greaves
(Manifesto Press)
Earlier this year, while designing an exhibition for the TUC on relations between the British and US labour movements, I came across a 1908 photograph of James Connolly speaking at a May Day rally alongside local leaders of the revolutionary syndicalists of the Industrial Workers of the World and the Jewish Bund and other trade unionists and socialists.
Reproduced on the back cover it shows Connolly in a typical pose, authoritative and forthright in communicating advanced ideas to workers.
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
NICK MATTHEWS previews a landmark book launch taking place in Leicester next weekend



