Niall Mulholland, from the Committee for a Workers’ International, discusses a socialist approach to the national question and how that applies to Northern Ireland today.

Useful further reading:

• ‘Ireland North - Brexit crisis and the role of the workers’ movement’: http://socialistworld.net/index.php/international/europe/ireland-north/10157-ireland-north-brexit-crisis-and-the-role-of-the-workers-movement

• ‘Belfast ‘Good Friday Agreement’ – what has it delivered 20 years on?’: http://socialistworld.net/index.php/international/europe/ireland-north/9748-ireland-s-good-friday-agreement-what-s-it-delivered-20-years-on

• ‘Beyond the Troubles’ by Peter Hadden: http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/ireland/

• ‘The real ideas of James Connolly’: http://www.socialismtoday.org/100/connolly.html

• ‘Scotland’s referendum – a working class revolt’: http://www.socialismtoday.org/182/scotland.html

• ‘National liberation, socialism and imperialism’, a collection of Lenin’s work: http://leftbooks.co.uk/epages/950002679.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/950002679/Products/LENI0003

• ‘The Permanent Revolution’ and ‘Results and Prospects’: http://leftbooks.co.uk/epages/950002679.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/950002679/Products/TROT0003