Seamus O’Riordan argues for greater trade union intervention in the current situation in Colombia that has left trade unionists and their families mudered and maimed by right-wing paramilataries on the payroll of Coca Cola.

An Glór, the news sheet of the RSYM caught up with IRSP activist Gerard Foster recently to discuss the striking murals that have sprang up in Belfast and Derry over the past two years and to discuss the reasons behind the murals and prospects for the future.

Here we are publishing a piece by Ewan Gibbs from the International Marxist Tendency on the Winter School held in Belfast recently by the RSYM. Comrades from the IMT, amongst other organisations attended the event. The continued international participation from other Socialist organisations can only serve to streghten the role our organisation has yet to play.

Founding IRSP member Jim Daly argues in his presentation at the RSYM Winter School that Green and Orange are incompatible, and that the traditional failure of Republican leaderships left and right to recognize this is part of the reason for the present debacle. Jim argues that only Republican socialist leaders such as Connolly and Costello were free of the illusion of their compatibility.

A particular and very popular quality of her style, which perhaps came from her father's background, was that her genuine outrage did not take away her Olympian contempt for the forces of repression. Jim Daly presents here a short biography of the outstanding Republican Socialist and Revolutionary Miriam Daly.