Sinn Féin MEP Chris MacManus outlines the changes in the new CAP plan and shows how the Irish government can improve the situation for small Irish farmers. Free article

Marking the anniversary of internment, the so-called ‘Operation Demetrius’, executed by the British Army in August 1971, has been an important moment in the conflict in Ireland for Irish republicans to commemorate and remember. Free article

Being a Sinn Féin MLA comes with what can often be an onerous level of constituency work. Carál Ni Chuilín, a party MLA for North Belfast, has just opened a new constituency office and gives a flavour of the daily life of an activist MLA. Free article

Illegal drug trafficking is a multibillion euro business and business is growing fast. The facts are startling. According to a March 2017 Global Financial Integrity report, titled ‘Transnational Crime in the Developing World’, drug trafficking is worth between €360 billion and €551.9 billion annually. That is 1% of the world’s GDP. Free article

The ‘Postcards from the New Republic’ series is a hat tip to British designer, artist, entrepreneur, and Socialist William Morris’s News from Nowhere series of articles from 1890 published in the Commonweal, the newspaper of the Socialist League and set in a distant future where Morris’s socialist and romantic utopia has been secured. Our story’s protagonists are Willa Ní Chuairteoir and Lucy Byrne, accompanied by their four children James, Afric, Banba, and Alroy who together enjoy and endure the equity and exigency of the future’s New Republic. Free article