strongly critical of Mary McAleese. McAleese claimed the article was libellous and took legal action against the publication with the help of her lawyer, QC Donal Deeney.The case was eventually settled out of court in September 1990; as a result of the undisclosed settlement, A Belfast Magazine ceased publication for several years The B&ICO's British branch, the Ernest Bevin Society, continued to agitate for Workers' Control throughout the 1980s. It also took unconventional positions, such as defending the British Monarchy and, most controversially, opposing the UK miners' strike (1984–1985). Nationalist turn, de-activation, and afterlife as Athol Books The B&ICO was never officially disbanded, but came to work solely through Athol Books, the Aubane Historical Society and the Ernest Bevin Society. Their chief outlet in Ireland became the magazines Irish Political Review (1986–present). In the United Kingdom it is the Labour and Trade Union Review, journal of the Ernest Bevin Society. This continues as Labour Affairs.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://labouraffairsmagazine.com/ |title=Labour Affairs' magazine |access-date=29 March 2017 |archive-date=23 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170423155923/https://labouraffairsmagazine.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In the 1990s, B&ICO former members decided that the Irish nationalism that they had originally opposed had collapsed and that it was necessary to oppose the new, globalist forces that came to dominate the Republic of Ireland. The group called for a United Ireland based on a revival of the "traditional" Irish Nationalism. B&ICO's successors decided to advocate the extension of the Irish Labour Party to Northern Ireland. This project was however stymied by the Irish Labour Party in its 21st Century Commission report published in January 2009. It said, "we are not at all convinced that parties based in either Dublin or London have any real or significant contribution to make to Northern Ireland politics by organising there. ... We are also far from convinced that there is sufficient demand at present within the North itself for a single, all-Ireland, social-democratic party." B&ICO criticised the Western response to Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, stating that Saddam had been given no chance to back down. At one time, B&ICO was pro-Israeli, but, since the late 1980s, it has become pro-Palestinian. Mark Langhammer, the ex-Newtownabbey Labour Party councillor is affiliated with this political tradition. One writer associated with Athol Books, Dr. Pat Walsh, has denied that there was an attempt to exterminate the Armenian people by the Ottoman authorities during World War I, arguing responsibility for their deaths rests with the British