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Divisions between the major imperialist powers over the Northern Ireland protocol remain after a US delegation’s visit to Ireland ended in acrimony, a massive security breach and loyalist threats of political violence.
So, some unionist politicians have taken offence at US Congressman Richard Neal’s use of the word ‘planter’ when referring to unionists in Ulster, and this reveals a festering sore that goes to the heart of division in these six counties
Ireland is one of the most important issues facing the British labour movement. For a quarter of a century the Six Counties of north-east Ulster have been in a state of latent, and sometimes open, civil war. In all this time, the left in Britain has been able to do nothing to help our working-class brothers and sisters, the majority of the people in both the Catholic and the Protestant communities, find a way out of the bloody cul-de-sac into which sectarianism, the conflict of national identities and an irrational partition have forced them.
This series: The Northern Ireland crisis of 1968-9 and the left (Part 5, section 2) Next article in this series: Part 6: SWP (IS) and Northern Ireland in 1968-9: Advocating civil war — until it starts! McCann: We have failed to get our position across. We keep saying parrot-like that we are fighting on working-class issues for working-class unity, that our objective is a workers’ and farmers’ socialist republic.
Following the last-minute cancellation of a seven-day strike, bus workers in Northern Ireland’s Metro, Ulsterbus, Goldline and Glider services are voting this week on another below inflation pay offer.