United Ireland, politics and "economism"
Kieran Allen’s latest book, 32 Counties: The Failure of Partition and the Case for a United Ireland , is a valuable polemical addition to the debates surrounding Ireland, Brexit, the prospect of a “Border Poll”, and Irish unification. It is most useful as a crisp historical account of partition and its political effects but less convincing as a justification for Allen’s current political perspectives. Allen is a leading figure in the Socialist Workers Network (SWN), the largest component of People Before Profit (PBP). The PBP coalition has elected representatives in the Dail, Stormont and...