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.
Prince Charles has refused to apologise on behalf of the Queen for the assimilation and genocide of Canada s schoolchildren - but admitted failures of the Crown in the latest Royal tour colonial row.
The trip to Canada will see Prince Charles and Camilla travel more than 2,000 miles from Newfoundland and Labrador to the Northwest Territories over three days from May 17 to 19.