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@S_O_Nuallain

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Ceardcumannaí, Marxach, Gobán Saor ⭕TradeUnionist, Marxist, Unemployable, JEFE @TrademarkBF @LeftBlocIreland

Liatroim, Contae an Dúin, Éire
Joined February 2012
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@S_O_Nuallain
Stiofán Ó Nualláin
3 years
1988 Stranraer,  just off the ferry from lovely Larne, getting bus to London, got stopped, peeler clearly not impressed with Irish passport as ID & London accent, points at guitar case says what's in it, I says, a fucking piano, missed the bus, worth it...
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When talking 'royalty' as Gaeilge, some useful words: seadán - parasite diúgaire - leech, sponger plucsheadáinín - parasite, thief súmaire - parasite; scrounger trumpa - Sponger, parasite.
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Let no Irishman throw a stone at the foreigner; he may hit his own clansman. Let no foreigner revile the Irish; he may be vilifying his own stock…..
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Stiofán Ó Nualláin
2 years
Commentators putting Alliance growth down to people being "fed up with green vs orange", give it up ffs, the SF vote is up, people are getting fed up with orange 🍊 politics
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EU to Brazil: We'd like cheap beef in return for cars Bolsonaro to farmers: Get fucking burning lads Farmers: Aug10th will be fire day! EU: Er lads, people can see... Brazil: But you want beef for cars thing? EU: Yeah but with less burning, bad press Brazil: FFS make up your mind
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Stiofán Ó Nualláin
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How it started.....how it's going
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"There were six men in Birmingham In Guildford there's four That were picked up and tortured & framed by the law. And the filth got promotion, But they're still doing time For being Irish in the wrong place And at the wrong time" Ní bheith a leithéid arís ann...
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If you're not in a union.....
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We've lost one of the best, a true working class hero, a friend and loyal comrade, always there for us, never complained, just did the fucking work that needed doing. Croí briste 💔👊
@TrademarkBF
TrademarkBelfast
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Our hearts are breaking, our friend & comrade Mel Corry @melcorry48 has passed away after a battle with Covid. Mel was a committed trade unionist & communist and remains an exemplar of the incorruptible working class. Gone too soon comrade ❤💔👊 Ní bheidh a leithéid arís ann!
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Ireland doesn't have an immigration problem, it has a fash problem...and fascism is not a working class phenomenon it's a ruling class project...the ruling class is the enemy...
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Bigí reidh! 🦇👻
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So are we agreed that the green party is not a party of the left and that transferring left should not include the green party?
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Seems appropriate to resurrect...
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At every opportunity, up the workers! @CWUnews
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British melts: First PM to break the 'law' (hand wringing etc) Former 'empire': 👁 🧐 👀😶 The sun never set and the blood never dried...
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@eucopresident “Anyone who loves freedom owes such a debt to the Red Army that it can never be repaid.” — Ernest Hemingway
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Tiresome now, 15 years of being asked why we raise kids bilingually, I’ve stopped with the usual history, heritage, linguistic diversity responses & now respond thusly: Punter: Why did you send your kids to a Gaelscoil? Me: Why didn’t you, are you fucking stupid or something?
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The fash aren't interested in the actual causes of homelessness, poverty, a collapsing health service, mass emigration, they are the useful idiots of the capitalist class....
@rtenews
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The richest 1% of the population in Ireland holds more than a third of the entire Irish financial wealth of the country, according to Oxfam
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Could anyone, absolutely anyone with FBPE in their bio please refrain from any 'told you so' commentary on Northern Ireland and Brexit, your total fucking ignorance of everything related to Ireland is showing...
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The Irish language is not contentious, the continued denial of the rights of Irish language speakers is....
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Naomi Long MLA
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@danielbakersf You heard the legal advice. There's no point having a policy which is wide open to challenge. And yes, sadly, Irish is contentious. It shouldn't be so: that's why Alliance has pro-actively sought to change perceptions. It's also why we need progress that's robust & defensible.
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@roy_kinsella We look forward to your sacrifice on the front lines....
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@BelTel Written by Garet Fitzgerald's son. The 'economist' who said "the fundamentals of the economy are sound" about a month before the global financial crash....
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Stiofán Ó Nualláin
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It does matter because when our best mate and comrade @melcorry48 died of Covid we didn’t get to say goodbye or attend his wake or funeral because of restrictions designed to keep us all safe. But it's no surprise because all Tories are scum. #ToryScum #Dr íodarnanDaoine
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@carlalockhart The entire world stands with Palestine 🇵🇸 ✊
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@michaelmagee__ I've always found that liberals (and indeed some leftists) raised in the imperialist core understand the world as imperialists
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50 years ago and the cover up continues. #DomhnachNaFola #BloodySunday50 The British Government has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland, and never can have any right in Ireland.” - James Connolly (1916)
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@rtenews Written by Garet Fitzgerald's son. The 'economist' who said "the fundamentals of the economy are sound" about a month before the global financial crash....
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From fascists to heads of state the far right has gone international and social media is the battlefield, one in which they are increasingly sophisticated, disciplined and well funded. They are years ahead of the left....
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Fuck productivity, fuck efficiency, fuck being on time, fuck the clock-in machine, fuck wage slavery, fuck bosses and owners, fuck a five day week, fuck working 50 years then dying...fuck capitalism There is no dignity in labour, until labour knows no master!
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If @greenparty_ie understood anything about global political economy they 1.Wouldn't impose punitive taxes on the poorest of us & 2.Realise that climate breakdown is a consequence of capitalism's reckles exploitation of labour & nature. I find reading books helps, here's one....
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Merch ar fáil gan mhoill ó @nuallnanog Nollaig shona a chomrádaithe!
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Capitalists and their boot lickers are slowly becoming aware that there is no economy, no profits without workers. It's as if workers create all the wealth and do all the work.
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@DarranMarshall Written by Garet Fitzgerald's son. The 'economist' who said "the fundamentals of the economy are sound" about a month before the global financial crash....
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Shocking scenes from Hong Kong...
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CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt
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Minnesota police arrest CNN reporter and camera crew as they report from protests in Minneapolis
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The French establishment has begun its attack on the Popular Front using anti semitism, this to ensure the victory of a party established by a member of the Waffenn SS and popularised by a holocaust denier...
@LCI
LCI
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🗣️ "C'est une évidence" que le poison de l'antisémitisme infuse dans une partie de l'extrême gauche. Eric Dupond-Moretti ( @E_DupondM ), invité de @DariusRochebin ⤵️
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@OxfordUnion Creideann an teach seo nach mbíonn barúil ar bith agaibh faoin tír seo, trasna oraibh!
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Thatcherism in action, the increased use of private provision undermines the core values of health as a common good...
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Belfast Telegraph
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Private intensive care unit to open in #NorthernIreland
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England waking to discover its monarchy is a white supremacist institution with a history of brutal colonisation, slavery and genocide...
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Is there a chance that the rise of the far right is not despite the EU but because of its neo liberal treaties that are driving inequality, precarity and climate breakdown?
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Solidarity with the @RMT in their ongoing struggle against "her majesty opposition".
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Had a group of German trade unionists in the office not too long ago, mostly SPD, one of them noticed a bust of Lenin on the table Him: "Why do you have the bust of a mass murderer on your table?" Me: "He's staying, you however are more than welcome to leave"
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Northern Ireland 🤭
@GMcK2012
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What’s something that’s clearly a scam but Irish people have been conditioned to believe it’s “normal”?
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Partition created a "carnival of reaction", a divided island, a sectarian statelet & a reactionary confessional state, ending it is a necessity & an inevitability
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Irish Times Politics
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Border poll ‘divisive and counterproductive’, says Greens’ Eamon Ryan via @IrishTimesPol
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Chin up....
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Viva Bolivia! Viva MAS!
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This is Bolivia. Quite extraordinary, considering that an unelected regime tried to exterminate this party, through massacres, persecution, racism, hunger. It didn't work. These people are facing down the coup and the most powerful country in the world, the US, all at once.
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Dog: What ye doin? Me: Re-spraying kitchen doors Dog: Wanna play a bit of hurling? Me: Too busy Dog: Wanker
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@AmmarKazmi_ When news of Connolly's execution arrived in the British houses of Parliament, Labour party MP's stood and applauded
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What an absolute stroke of luck!
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Scores in: @RMTunion 10 - 0 Media
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@BBCNewsNI Maybe knock it down and build some more student accommodation or perhaps another hotel, ooohhh or what about some permanently empty 'grade A office space' ?
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Dog knows the score...
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Apologies for the technical difficulties, normal service will commence in the morning....
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Bolivia is about lithium, gas & oil and the threat of what capital calls "resource nationalism" which translates as them not owning it #ElMundoConEvo #imperialism
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A fascist international is growing, within five years, the majority of Europe will have far right parties in government, and you can't blame shadowy external interference, the emergence of an authoritarian neoliberalism comes from the heart of Europe.
@EoghanGilmartin
Eoghan Gilmartin
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Beyond the spectacle of last Sunday's Vox convention in Madrid is a serious project to organise the far-right internationally. And the Spanish extremist party is taking on a coordinating role within this 'Reactionary International'. Me in @tribunemagazine
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Not an accident, not bad luck, policy.... #PrivateProfit #ShareHolderValue #FreeMarket
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@JohnnyWas8 In my experience comrade the trade union movement here is full of protestants socialists and communists, a long and proud tradition of Protestant radicalism ✊🏾
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@vincentbrowne That's a shite idea
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"Northern Ireland was literally designed, its borders were designed, so that wouldn't happen" Career ending analysis from this geezer at the BBC 😂
@BBCPolitics
BBC Politics
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"Northern Ireland was literally designed, its borders were designed, so that wouldn't happen" @lewis_goodall explains why the 2022 Stormont elections "already are historic"
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God was spotted walking round Donegal and when he was asked what he was doing he replied: "working from home"
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Liberals, forever the midwives of fascism....
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@eu_comission and @guyverhofstadt have recognised Jamiroquai as interim US President
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@Independent_ie Is it because they're not committing a genocide?
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"Postmodernism is bollocks" - Me
@wokal_distance
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"Postmodernism is a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality in which traditional values of depth, coherence, meaning, originality, and authenticity dissolve amid the random swirl of empty signals" -Marni Gauthier
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Daughter's A-Level homework is to watch 'Wind that Shakes the Barkey' and identify the ideological positions of the revolutionary forces. We approve of this homework 👌
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20 years ago, me and the indomitable Joe Law (1946-2016) handed in our notice at work because someone had accepted an MBE, Joe suggested our position should not be accepting imperialist baubles from Buckinghman Palace but rather to #burntheplacetothefuckingground
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Titles, trinkets & baubles for services to imperialism "Fellow-workers, stand by the dignity of your class. All these parading royalties, all this insolent aristocracy, all these grovelling, dirt-eating capitalist traitors, all these are but signs of disease in any social state"
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@davegibney Siri, find a picture of three nonces
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@XRebellionUK Thinking that you will achieve any kind of transformative change by ignoring the history, theory and praxis of the world's only truly liberating philosophy is so achingly fucking stupid it deserves a special 'I'm a fucking idiot' award 👏
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These are my principles if you don't like them I have some others....
@ClaireHanna
Claire Hanna
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Good luck #GE2020ers . My political home is @labour but been v happy too to support excellent @FineGael & @fiannafailparty friends & admire candidates beyond. PR voting encourages thought beyond political silo! For sure we need TDs in all parties who know challenge & dynamic of NI
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More than 240 activists have been assassinated in Colombia 🇨🇴 in 2020...
@JFColombia
Justice for Colombia
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Social activist Juana Perea has been murdered in Nuquí, western Colombia. She worked in eco-tourism was a member of a hotel workers' union and publicly opposed a port development near protected zones. More than 240 activists have been murdered in 2020, according to @Indepaz .
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"Fascism is the iron hoop that holds together the collapsing barrel of capitalism."
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@EoinDrea @POLITICOEurope We look forward to your bloody and ultimately pointless sacrifice on the front lines
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Crapitalism...
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Venceremos!
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@BelTel Sammy has already submitted plans
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Remember when liberal melts backed the US invasion of Afghanistan for women's rights....
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I must say the Greens are doing very, very well in government, just goes to show how grown up pragmatic politics and the abandonment of principle can achieve absolutely fuck all and ensure the total wipe out of your party at the next election.
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British Labour Party betrayal of the union movement not unlike their betrayal of the miners in the 80's, its like there's a pattern or something?
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