By the weekend bootleg dvds of these videos will be available from hawkers in pubs and markets across the English speaking world and probably outselling pirate copies of the Simpsons film. Here are some extracts from the forum John Mc Anulty did in London for Socialist Resistance last night. I’ll post others in the next day or so.In them he offers a distinctively anti-imperialist Marxist explanation of how Martin Mc Guinness ended up in government with Ian Paisley and explores the scale of the defeat inflicted on the Republican Movement by the British.

In this clip John replies to questions on why Republicanism collapsed, why Britain remains in Ireland and what he thinks of the unity of Protestant and Catholic workers. Is he for it oragainst it?