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NORTHERN IRISH civil servants’ union Nipsa voted yesterday to back a Leave vote in Britain’s European Union membership referendum.
The union’s annual conference in Enniskillen voted by 68 to 58 in favour of the motion, backed by the outgoing general council (GC), with five abstentions.
GC member Patrick Mullholland said the EU was “openly supportive of privatisation,” adding that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) being negotiated in secret by Brussels was “a gift to the US.”
FRANCIS DEVINE introduces a new collection of essays that draws on Pease McKenna’s example to indicate future paths for the movement
AARON SMITH discusses why the Protestant diaspora are still part of Yeats’s ‘Indomitable Irishry’, and an integral part of any future united Ireland.
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