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Fantastic to see the Lajee Cultural Centre teenagers from Palestine performing Dabke on Grafton Street. From the River to the Sea 🇵🇸
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We are proud to stand with the Palestinian people and support the global day of action against Puma. Solidarity from Inis Oirr #FreePalestine #BoycottPuma #ScoilChoisClaí2022
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Far right lies help Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. Conor McCabe explains why. Share this video far and wide.
#ireland #IrelandisFull #irelandimmigration #housingcrisis
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Clare Daly talks about how the EU is already in the process of Militarisation, its plans to build a new force of 20,000 troops, and the threat this poses to Irish neutrality.
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“50% of Travellers don’t make it past the age of 38. For half of us, 19 is middle-aged. 10% don’t reach their 2nd birthday, 70% don’t live past 59 and only 3% live longer than 62.”
Important article from @amyward82 here: 👉 leftbloc.ie/structural-racis…
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Irish Broad Left has reprinted the excellent speech by Dublin Central TD Neasa Hourigan to the Green Party special convention on the #ProgrammeForGovernment on why she will vote no. Please read and share! irishbroadleft.com/2020/06/2…
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More than 100 trade unionists have signed a statement in support of refugees
“It wasn’t migrants who left 166,000 homes empty during a housing crisis.
It wasn’t refugees who forced almost one million people onto hospital waiting lists.”
Sign & share👉 leftbloc.ie/trade-unionists-…
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Solidarity from Inis Oírr to Palestine - we will be free when we own everything from the plough to the stars ✊⭐️
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We're really excited to be part of a new left communications & political education project, Left Bloc, that will bring together @irishbroadleft & podcasts from @TheWeekatWork @TrademarkBF @nuallnanog. Our Patreon is launching this Friday, stay tuned!
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The EU Court's verdict on #AppleTax is a win for the second-wealthiest corporation in the world. It is a win for Ireland’s tax-haven economic model, and for the government. But it is not a win for the people of Ireland irishbroadleft.com/2020/07/1…
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There are no ‘UK abortion laws’🪡🧵
‘A dark day for women in the UK’ is the sort of earnest, well meaning statement British feminists are making on twitter in regard to the horrendous ruling in England, where a woman was sentenced to 28 months in prison for inducing an abortion
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This week the British government passed the legacy bill regarding Ireland - it is unfair, unaccountable and undemocratic. There is no British Justice - from all of us at the festival we extend our solidarity to all those fighting for truth and justice. ✊
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🚛 @LeftBlocIreland is part of #TrucksForPeace, a global fundraising initiative to help build peace & co-operativism in Colombia 🇨🇴
In the 2016 peace agreement FARC guerrila members established 150 worker coops, but they need our support, they need a truck
tinyurl.com/TrucksForPeace
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📢 Bernadette McAliskey at #ScoilCoisCle
‘We don’t intend on joining you’
‘If you think we spent 2 generations, & traumatised 2 more yet to come, by what we’ve been through to live in this godforsaken state, you have another thing coming'
#NewIreland
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Left Bloc's Patreon is live! Sign up to support this hub for left media and political education in Ireland, including a news website and a series of podcasts: @TheWeekatWork, @TrademarkBF, Offshore, @nuallnanog and Climate Justice patreon.com/LeftBloc #LeftBloc
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Tadhg Hickey | Thoughts on #ScoilChoisClai22 @TadhgHickey
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As @jeremycorbyn could not join us, we have @vijayprashad reading out his message to the crowd.
‘We must come together and build a united movement for change and peace around the world’
We will see you next year Jeremy!
#ScoilChoisClaí2022
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Read the #VoteNo open letter from young #GreenParty representatives: "Adequate housing, a decent healthcare system, economic security and workers’ rights all constitute the building blocks for the transition our society must make to a zero-carbon future" irishbroadleft.com/2020/06/2…
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🚨 1st ever #LeftBloc festival 🚨
⏰9/11 Sept 22
🌎Inis Oírr/Inisheer island
💡Workshops, lectures, debates, music and creamy pints of Guinness
Speakers: Bernadette McAliskey, Jeremy Corbyn, Vijay Prashad, & more...
Tickets: leftbloc.ie/scoil-chois-clai…
#InisOírr2022
#ScoilChoisClaí
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Standing ovation for Bernadette on her incredible speech and on her recent retirement - we are so lucky and honoured to have you in the movement ❤️
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A powerful reminder of the brutality of imperialism and that "Capitalism IS crisis and always has been for the global south" from comrade @vijayprashad
#ScoilChoisClaí2022
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People are angry & frustrated, people are right to be angry & frustrated, but let's not be angry at the wrong people, our enemy is the ruling class, the 1%, the capitalist class, not other workers, not immigrants, not the weak or vulnerable...punch up not down!
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Michael Taft writes that a USC tax cut included in the #ProgrammeForGovernment is "a significant tax windfall to the highest income groups in the economy" irishbroadleft.com/2020/06/2… #PfG @notesonthefront
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In advance of a new website combining #IrishBroadLeft with a series of left political education podcasts we're changing over our Twitter and Facebook accounts to #LeftBloc. A podcast introducing Left Bloc will be out shortly
We're really excited to be part of a new left communications & political education project, Left Bloc, that will bring together @irishbroadleft & podcasts from @TheWeekatWork @TrademarkBF @nuallnanog. Our Patreon is launching this Friday, stay tuned!
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Big turnout at the United Ireland - has our day come - event in the Adelphi hotel as part of a fringe event at the @TWT_NOW festival. The debate is on. It’s about what kind of United Ireland we will have. #UnitedIreland
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Thank you to everyone who came and made this weekend an incredible and inspiring occasion. If you love what we do then sign up to our patreon and if you’d like to collaborate with us on podcasts or projects then get in touch ✊#scoilcoischlaí2023 #inisOírr2023
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'There's no united Ireland on a dead planet' @Sean_Fearon kicks of this morning's panel..
#ScoilChoisClaí2023
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James Connolly, Ireland's foremost revolutionary socialist, was executed by firing squad in Kilmainham jail on this day, 12 May, 1916, for his part in the Easter Rising.
"And our victorious rallying cry shall be we want the earth!"
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AND WE ARE LIVE! Irish Broad Left is up and running - your new platform for all left perspectives. Follow for articles on politics, society, history, economy, climate, international news and culture! #irishbroadleft #news #stayposted irishbroadleft.com
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Us young people from “my generation and those that come behind us” remember all these things.
But we also remember austerity, being forced out of the country, water charges, not being able to afford a deposit, and getting told that we should be “excited” about sharing a kitchen
If you remember Tamagotchis, Polly Pocket and wanted to be a member of B*Witched, then this video is for you!
On Friday, please vote No. 1 Maria Walsh.
#MariaWalshEU #EE19 #EP19
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"Despite @FineGael opposition to the #OccupiedTerritoriesBill, we can push it across the line. With Israel’s annexation plan going virtually unopposed by the international community, we cannot abandon the #Palestinian people at this critical time"
irishbroadleft.com/2020/06/1… @ipsc48
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Building an all-Ireland public health service: @andreemurphy writes for #IrishBroadLeft on the need to develop a detailed plan for building a truly national #health service and the role it can play in persuading for a #UnitedIreland irishbroadleft.com/2019/02/0…
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Well done Bristol.
In Brussels, police riot squads have just been sent to the Leopold II statue to protect it from vandalism.
Leopold II, as in the murdering king of Belgium who ordered the chopping of arms for violent coercion into forced labour ✊🏿
#decolonizethisplace
► VIDEO: Protesters pull down statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol irishtimes.com/news/proteste…
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Médb McDaid sets a wee reminder "the republic has had 100 years of independence and look at the condition of the labour moment here now - the whole island needs another revolution"
#ScoilChoisClaí2023
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Mairéad Farrell: Tax avoidance is not a victimless crime – #Ireland is helping to fuel a race to bottom on corporate tax, where working people have to make up the shortfall irishbroadleft.com/2020/07/2… @Farrell_Mairead #AppleTax
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🎙ANNOUNCEMENT📣
And the winner's of the @C_Lapavitsas 'State of Capitalism' are @RonanODalaigh Sarah Cundy @Sean_Byers84 and magically....@step_bee
#ScoilChoisClaí2023
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Leftbloc’s first event has started with @ClareDalyMEP saying ‘Preparation for war, ends in war!’ - we need to end the drive towards militarisation ✊
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Today's terrorist atrocity is the inevitable brutal consequence of hatred against Muslims and immigrants put forward by conservative politicians and the far-right, platformed by a complicit media. Racism kills. Islamophobia kills. Zero tolerance for hate #Solidarity #Christchurch
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Political leaders & campaigners from across Ireland & Britain have signed a manifesto demanding the release of nine #Catalan political prisoners who face sentences of up to 25 years for organising the #independence referendum freecatalanpoliticalprisoner… #Llibertatpresospolitics
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"The new coalition government may help the development of this right-left politics in Ireland. But it is bad for the climate movement, which, through the Green participation in this government, will undoubtedly be associated with painful austerity" irishbroadleft.com/2020/06/2…
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Communist-run Kerala has shown how sustained public investment in health, combined with a massive social mobilisation involving all sectors of society, can stop the spread of Covid-19 irishbroadleft.com/2020/05/2… #Kerala
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The brilliant @S_O_Nuallain is introducing the weekend and we are about to kick off with our first session. The room is packed and ready for Bernadette McAliskey #ScoilChoisClaí2022
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This morning we are with the brilliant @HelenYaffe on ‘Cuba’s life task: Combatting Climate Change’
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Get along to this event next Friday if you're in Dublin! #Catalonia #FreeThemAll
Top class panel discussion with @ClaraPonsati, @enricstern, @albertllussa & Ed O'Donovan Head of Protection at @FrontLineHRD to discuss if Spain is infringing on fundamental #HumanRights. #Catalonia
📆 Fri 29 Mar
🕖 7pm
📍 @TheTeachersClub
Join us here: bit.ly/2TNXK3x
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"The left here get confused about the difference between nationalism and national sovereignty" @step_bee #BernadetteMcAliskey
#ScoilChoisClaí2023
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"Workers need to set the terms for reunification, not capital" @davegibney speaking at #ScoilChoisClaí2023
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Our first ever Summer School taking place in just over a week. Really looking forward to hearing from some of the worlds leading experts on eco-socialism ✊✊✊
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So, who here’s up for a good aul socialist revolution tomorrow?
#MichealNotMyTaoiseach
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A new podcast series by @TrademarkBF aims to provide an overall view of the historical development of the capitalist system – a ‘people’s history’ of the world. The episodes so far have travelled from 1315 to the 1980s, with more to come irishbroadleft.com/2020/05/2…
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Lois Brooks-Jones reflects on her personal experience of coming out as LGBT+ in her Gypsy Roma Traveller community for #IrishBroadLeft: "When we begin to accept hatred towards others based on identity, we comply with our oppressors" @TravellerLGBT #Pride #GRT
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Now up @ChrisHazzardSF talks about how partition subverted democracy in Ireland. What power will the people have in a #UnitedIreland while thousands are forced to emigrate. We need a republic of the people, for the people, with material improvements.
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Who can we shoot? Who do we blame? The Far right blame the weak and the powerless to deflect from the powerful.
#IrelandisFull #eastwall #IrelandForAll #irelandimmigration #HousingCrisis
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Ag súil go mór le seo; so looking forward to this! ✊🏾
#ScoilChoisClaí2022
#InisOírr2022
@vijayprashad
@TrademarkBF @nuallnanog @TheWeekatWork @AbcsGreen
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However, the criminalisation of women for having abortions is not new within the ‘UK’ & phrases like this speak to an ignorance of experiences we continue to face in the North of Ireland, which for the time being, remains legally part of the UK (despite entirely different laws)
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Oíche mhaith a chairde - ag súil go mór le 2023!
Goodnight comrades - we’re looking forward to 2023! #ScoilChoisClai2022
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Solidarity with those in Belfast today protesting the #BillOfShame
It’s #TimeForTruth 🤝
Walk with the families of the #TimeForTruth Campaign today in protest against Britain's Legacy #BillOfShame
🗓 Sunday 11th of September
⏰ 12 noon
🏴 Wear black
📍 Divis Tower, #McGurks Memorial or Cromac Square
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Kicking off today with a talk from @SandinoVictoria chaired by our own @ProfJohnBarry
‘The fight against climate change is an anti-imperialist struggle…it is class struggle on a global level’
#ScoilChoisClaí2022
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“I’m not longer accepting the things I cannot change... I’m changing the things I cannot accept.”
The legend, Angela Davis.
💪🏿✊🏾✌🏿
Our solidarity to everyone on the streets for justice #JusticeForGeorgeFlyod
#BLACK_LIVES_MATTER #mineapolis #GeorgeFloydProtests
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Join us at #ScoilChoisClaí2023 on Inis Oírr - a 3 day political festival of workshops, debates, music & craic focusing on climate breakdown, next systems, anti-fascism & anti-imperialism.
TICKETS 👇
leftbloc.ie/scoil-chois-clai…
@AbcsGreen
@TheWeekatWork
@nuallnanog
@RosaluxLondon
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Happening next week
We’re already organising next year’s festival. Details to be announced in the coming weeks. But, like this event, tickets will go to patrons and supporters first.
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"As the host of the new I4C Trouble podcast, I have the fun role of moderating a weekly conversation with Europe’s two biggest troublemakers, Clare Daly and Mick Wallace" irishbroadleft.com/2020/05/2… @dmacthomais @i4ctrouble @ClareDalyMEP @wallacemick
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We are wrapping up the #ScoilChoisClai2022 weekend with the fabulous @ProfJohnBarry - thanks for leaving us motivated and inspired to take the struggle for climate justice onwards ✊
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𝑵𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏
Left Bloc has set up a community announcement group on WhatsApp. Get your podcasts, articles, events and other news by clicking here:
chat.whatsapp.com/GrpI1ETKXH…
Please share…. ✊
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Alice McLarnon of the @BFCleanCoop extolling the virtues of worker ownership and economic democracy...
#ScoilChoisClaí2023
#InisOírr2023
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For the day that's in it: Here's IBL editor Emma Clancy in 2018, outlining that Ireland is still #Apple's favourite #taxhaven – Apple, along with other tech/IP companies, is now using the #GreenJersey tax trick socialeurope.eu/apple-irelan…
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Eoghan Ó Garmaile | Smaointe ar #ScoilChoisClaí22 @o_garmaile
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"Building a strong sense of collective aspiration is an essential part of any successful leftist movement." Excellent article by @UnionsTheo - and our own #ScoilCoisClai gets a mention... leftbloc.ie/political-festiv…
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This is why it is so essential that feminists from across Britain and Ireland do not clumsily refer to a ‘UK abortion laws’. It has never been universal. It has become so widely accepted that abortion laws were ‘UK’ wide that we, people from the North of Ireland, became erased.
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Nativism is racism’s ugly precursor: Sarah Holland writes on the rise of racism towards migrants and refugees. "No-one knowing our history should ever think of trying to ground another person underfoot." irishbroadleft.com/2019/02/0… #IrishBroadLeft @VoteHollandSF
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Lovely message from @jeremycorbyn for our own @melcorry48. He will be sorely missed. 😢✊
Thanks so much @jeremycorbyn for this heartfelt message about the sudden loss of our friend and comrade @melcorry48, a great comfort to his family @seanzi1 and those who knew and loved him
#gonetoosoon #uptheworkers #dontmournorganise ❤✊🏼
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A message from Down to Derry this morning for management: fair pay and conditions for the posties #StandByYourPost ✊❤️
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Mandate's @davegibney writes for #IrishBroadLeft on secure-hour legislation enacted in March. "This law is the most significant win for the trade union movement in decades & will enable unions to win better pay increases without fear of recrimination" irishbroadleft.com/2019/04/2…
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Mental health has a social context – neoliberalism breaks down communities, isolates individuals and privatises services irishbroadleft.com/2020/06/2… by @Diarms_ #YouthMentalHealth
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Ciarán Mac Giolla Bhéin outlines An Dream Dearg's determined campaign for an Irish Language Act over the past two years, and deals with the question of who 'politicised' the Irish language irishbroadleft.com/2019/03/0… #IrishBroadLeft @dreamdearg @CnaG
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The Big Four accountancy firms – Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC – are the goliaths of the #taxavoidance industry, selling their schemes to multinational corporations. @vicky_cann from Corporate Europe Observatory writes for #IrishBroadLeft irishbroadleft.com/2019/02/0… @corporateeurope
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Kicking off the @RosaluxEuropa Winning a Socialist Green New Deal Sunner School in #LustyBeg2022 is @LNBDublin from @sinnfeinireland. She’s joined by @LukaMesec, @lenaguengoer @jemilos. Lots of interesting debates to come…
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Listen to our special podcast introducing the new radical media and political education project, Left Bloc, here! anchor.fm/the-week-at-work/e…
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Always encouraging to see a massive turnout in Dublin in support of the Palestinian people. #Gaza_under_attack #FreePalestine #EndIsraeliApartheid
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Conal Mac Mathúna | Thoughts on #scoilchoisclaí22 @MacMathunaConal
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Zoë Lawlor from @ipsc48 outlines the growing Irish support for a boycott of this year's Eurovision contest to be held in #Israel. ‘Dare to Dream’ of freedom and justice in #Palestine irishbroadleft.com/2019/02/1… #BoycottEurovision #IrishBroadLeft
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Our first episode of #Offshore is coming out on Thursday! It's a new podcast exploring finance, economics and power from a Left perspective, part of @LeftBlocIreland. Follow @offshorepod
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A remarkable letter from a remarkable woman: Brigitta Balogh exposes not only illegal discrimination against #Roma, #Gypsies & #Travellers but also the legally institutionalised discrimination enshrined in law to this day irishbroadleft.com/2019/04/1… #IrishBroadLeft @hellobrigitta
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Important article by @ciarannugent :
“We have one of the highest rates of low wage workers in Europe and we subsidise the low wage economy and low wage employers more and more every year.”
Read 👉 leftbloc.ie/the-way-we-measu…
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System change not climate change!!! The young people of Ireland are not fooled by neoliberal climate policies.
#FridaysForFuture #SystemChangeNotClimateChange #climatestrike #ClimateEmergency
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#IrishBroadLeft has committed to gender-equal publishing. For Feb 2019, 62% of articles were written by women. The lesson? It's really not that hard to achieve #genderequality in progressive publications. See our February statistics here: irishbroadleft.com/2019/03/0…
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"In the move towards unification we need to be honest about the very real structural limitations of EU membership and the absence of popular sovereignty" @Sean_Byers84 at #ScoilChoisClaí2023
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One Bloody Sunday March the ‘extend the act’ banner was met with glares from around us. ‘What does abortion have to do with Bloody Sunday?’ people asked. Well, the British Govts denial of rights to those who wish to end a pregnancy is a huge injustice & one that must be fought.
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MEP @MattCarthy condemns EU leaders for their silence as the political show trial of 12 Catalan leaders begins: "When it comes to the serious breaches of the fundamental rights of people in #Catalonia, EU leaders are deathly silent" irishbroadleft.com/2019/02/1… #MakeAMove
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Niamh Ní Bhriain: Canadian company #DalradianGold wants to develop a gold mine in the hills of #Tyrone, which may use cyanide & mercury - while protestors face intimidation from the #PSNI irishbroadleft.com/2019/08/2… @SaveOurSperrins @TNInstitute #IrishBroadLeft
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I’m sorry but anyone waving EU flags and mindlessly priding themselves on United in Diverstiy yada yada... no, just no.
Unless you’re vocal against the racist policies of the EU, you’ve taken the whole package.
#FortressEurope 🇪🇺
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More confirmation for what we already knew. . .
Seems like FG never even had the slightest intention to attempt to reach our 2020 climate targets.
Easier to pay a fine than to challenge the vested interests of course.
“While EU as a whole has cut emissions by 23% since 1990, Ireland's have grown by 10% - from 55.5 to 61m tonnes”
Devastating indictment of political failure on #climate & power of vested interests
via @codohertynews independent.ie/news/environm…
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