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JAMES CONNOLLY “should forever be remembered as a son of Scotland,” his great-grandson said in a message read out to a weekend conference in Glasgow marking the 150th anniversary of the Irish revolutionary’s birth.
James Connolly Heron said his great-grandfather’s vow to create “a full, free and happy life for all or for none” remained the challenge today.
He said the trade unionist and Easter Rising leader offered an analysis that “remains a valid description of the way governments continue to marginalise, ignore and abandon great numbers of citizens, leaving them in desperate circumstances.
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
