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.
“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: 👉
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!
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👉
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!
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
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
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. ✊
🚛
@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
📢 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
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
#LeftBloc
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!
#ScoilChoisCla
í2022
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"
🚨 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:
#InisO
írr2022
#ScoilChoisCla
í
A powerful reminder of the brutality of imperialism and that "Capitalism IS crisis and always has been for the global south" from comrade
@vijayprashad
#ScoilChoisCla
í2022
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!
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!
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
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 ✊
#scoilcoischla
í2023
#inisO
írr2023
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!"
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
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
"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"
@ipsc48
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
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
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"
#ScoilChoisCla
í2023
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
@Farrell_Mairead
#AppleTax
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
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
#Llibertatpresospolitics
"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"
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
#Kerala
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
#ScoilChoisCla
í2022
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 ✊✊✊
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
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
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.
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)
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
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’
#ScoilChoisCla
í2022
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.
✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊
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 ✊
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:
Please share…. ✊
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
"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...
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.
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
@VoteHollandSF
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"
Mental health has a social context – neoliberalism breaks down communities, isolates individuals and privatises services by
@Diarms_
#YouthMentalHealth
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
@dreamdearg
@CnaG
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
@corporateeurope
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
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
@hellobrigitta
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 👉
#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:
"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
#ScoilChoisCla
í2023
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.
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"
#MakeAMove
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
🇪🇺
To anyone who thinks that state racism is a problem of other countries.
How about the EU systemically preventing sea rescue off Libya? Letting people drown in thousands? Sending them back to civil war, kidnappings and torture?
Racism is a root of that.
#BlackLivesMatter
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