 Hello and welcome to Belfast. My name is Steph on the new line and we are Trademark Belfast. Behind the camera is our office and behind me is one of Belfast's largest interfaces. A physical and a very hard border that separates the predominantly Irish and Republican community from over this side the British and Unionist community. And it's our job in part to challenge those narrow nationalisms and introduce a heavy dose of class politics. But this unfortunately is not the only border we have to worry about because there's another border which is slightly problematic and it has been since this island was partitioned almost 100 years ago. And that of course is the border between the north and south of Ireland or more formally between the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom and potentially in the next month or so between the United Kingdom and the European Union. However because of the peace process and the Good Friday Agreement that border is reasonably frictionless and almost invisible and you cannot underestimate how important the invisibility and the frictionless of that border is to the people of this island. Always at the centre of Irish politics, sometimes at the centre of British politics that border is now at the centre of European politics and I think you know why. In response to Brexit its impact here in Ireland, in Britain and across Europe and of course in response to the ongoing and deep systemic crises within capitalism I'm here to announce a new small but perfectly formed initiative between the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and Trademark Belfast in the guise of an online blog that will encompass articles, video segments and podcasts. Over the next 12 months we're going to be inviting grassroots left activists, journalists and political thinkers to contribute to a comradely debate about the future of the European Union, the Eurozone, electoralism and social movements, trade union and labour politics, alternative economic and political strategies and of course the small task of building left power. We hope it's a useful contribution, we hope it's an enjoyable contribution, we hope you come along for the journey. And that's it, that's the pitch of nothing more to say except Chief of my shove, I've a slung a foil.