A great buzz this weekend at the Cork summer show where we in @labour.ie were discussing transport in Cork and how we get Cork moving

youtube.com/watch?v=zorR... the left is in a mess in Ireland. Red brown alliance. Supporting reactionary regimes and attacking unions. This is my answer to them.

🌈🇺🇦 Kyiv Pride, today. Just imagine, we are under martial law, but the gathering is allowed, because we live in a democracy and people show up to advocate for their basic human rights. Not something you could see in Moscow.

youtube.com/watch?v=zorR... the left is in a mess in Ireland. Red brown alliance. Supporting reactionary regimes and attacking unions. This is my answer to them.

I miss that the Workers Solidarity Movement is gone. I have met members of that movement over the years. Lovely people to meet too. The weakness of the left in Ireland is that we don't hear real anarchist voices. My practical politics is social democratic. My vision is libertarian socialist

Seriously, if we're gonna "reform" police, one major one needs to be prohibiting behavior by undercover cops in the course of a sting operation -- like either offering or soliciting drugs or sex -- that is illegal for ordinary citizens.

Check out the Freedom Anarchist news Review livestreaming now! It’s by-election jabbering time! Plus thoughts on the week's events including the Iran deal, Palestine Action, Defence budget, repression in Geneva and a neoliberal panic about techno-feudal underwater colonialism ...

irishfabian.wordpress.com/2026/06/17/w... part 2 next week.

Another zine we'll have at the book launch for Enough Is Enough in Toronto (June 24, 6:30pm, Knox College). It features the full text of the interview we did with Leonardo Boff for the book. Come pick up a copy!

Astra Taylor: "I think AI in this economic model, in this political economic paradigm, is veering towards inherently bad. You cannot separate the technology from the economics." ino.to/WyNeTXy

Having become the world’s first trillionaire, Elon Musk is wealthy at a level that the human mind can scarcely comprehend. But one idea is simple to grasp: no functioning and humane society would produce inequality of this magnitude.

JD Vance Gets Humiliating Fact-Check to His Face on The View ino.to/A8DVshd

"Data centres now account for 21 per cent of Ireland's total metered electricity and are projected to grow to 30 per cent by 2030, according to a report by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health."

Locals affected by Ireland's AI data centre boom share 'cautionary tales' - ABC News share.google/W6ojo0YTj8m7...

"The embezzlement of £400,000 of Scottish National Party funds by Peter Murrell, the party’s former CEO, is proving an endless source of entertainment. Helpfully, the BBC has even provided a full list of what the money was spent on." workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

#OtD 16 Jun 1937 the anti-Stalinist Marxist party the POUM was declared illegal in Republican Spain by the Communist Party-run authorities. Many were rounded up and arrested. More info in our podcast episodes on the Spanish Civil War: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e39-...

I seem to be busy writing and selling books.

Absolutely huge crowds in Belfast to reject the far-right, paramilitarism, racism and border violence. A loud message to the politicians who pandered to violent paramilitary groups this week

People need to wake up to the influence of the Collison billionaire-backed 'Progress Ireland' think tank. We must fight for a left government that takes on these billionaire interests, instead of this government that puts forward the interests of those who profit from people's misery.

"I'm making this speech to warn anyone who's watching that what we're experiencing right now is a key moment of corporate takeover." Shed-sits, gutting democratic oversight in planning, pushing nuclear power... The corporate capture of the Irish government is real. #NoShedSits #ProgressIreland

Did ICE mercenaries kidnap your neighbors this week? If not, you can thank the demonstrators outside Delaney Hall Detention Center—and in the Twin Cities, Chicago, LA, and elsewhere—for keeping them busy. The more boldly we resist them, the less harm they can do. crimethinc.com/DelaneyStrat...

This person is an advisor on how to grow companies, with a verified Xitter account to prove it. I'm not sure I'd trust her DCFs.

Elon Musk incited pogroms in Belfast.

Respect for Simon’s shirt game. www.patreon.com/tortoiseshac...

Heyor, tell no one, but @tupped.bsky.social is back on the shack and Humpty Dumpty is getting thrun off the wall!

The Swiss electorate really is the NIMBY final boss. If they actually do this it will be one of the most spectacular national suicide moments of our age.

Always striking in these situations who the police choose to mobilise to protect.

Abolish AI – before it abolishes us Comment, Jun 11th Evidence of the existential threat posed to humanity by artificial intelligence accrues day by day ~ Bill Weinberg ~ freedomnews.org.uk/2026/06/11/a...

I find it interesting that @freedompress.bsky.social has dealt with a Papal teaching. It is an interesting response. I think the Pope doesn't want to be seen as anti technology per se. He pointed out the exploition of the workers in hardware and software.

Shit, even if you're a billionaire you can avoid being an "elite" if you don't read for curiosity or use the fancy mustard

GOP is a coalition of extractive industry "Sagebrush Rebels," Confederate state Eric Endicotts, big agribiz industry employers ("fArMeRs"), and small town Main Street petty bourgeoisie.

irishfabian.wordpress.com/2026/06/03/m.... I will be writing 3 posts on my faith, the need for a secular state and the economy.

Outreach is honored to publish this important article by Archbishop John Wester of on the church's pastoral care of LGBTQ Catholics: outreach.faith/2026/06/arch...

I was going to say that it is a pity @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social is not on here. But I found his account.

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#OtD 10 Jun 1927 in Italy, the trial of anarchist Gino Lucetti concluded for attempting to assassinate Mussolini. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison; two others received 12 years. He was killed by shelling in 1943 before the end of the war stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1248...

Please share. Councillors have called an emergeny Council meeting in SDCC for a motion to stop the Council hiking rents for 20,000 families starting in July. Please contact your Councillors to get them to support this morion. #StopTheRentHikes #CostOfLivingCrisis

As Archbishop Tutu said about apartheid with regards to the Truth and Reconciliation hearings: "Those who claimed they did not know cannot very well say so now. They know.” Except we have internet. We have social media. People know now. We know. We cannot claim otherwise.

We should not come to Mass because of some custom or out of curiosity, but we should be motivated to come each Sunday in order to encounter this great mystery of the presence of the Lord —St Oscar Romero, Corpus Christi 1978 #StOscarRomero

Radical Reprint: World Cup (fascist) fever Features, Jun 7th This week we turn back to 1978, and another international football tournament legitimating a dictatorship ~ punkacademic ~ freedomnews.org.uk/2026/06/07/r...

All books belong in every library. Pay no attention to any argument by loo lahs presenting themselves as concerned parents that *any* book is inappropriate in a library. Ireland was famous for its avid censorship of books throughout the 20th C, the same time it is now famous for abusing children.

If Christians are nourished by communion in the Eucharist and their faith tells them that they are united to the life of Christ, how can they worship the idol of money, or power, or their own ego? —St Oscar Romero, Corpus Christi 1978 #StOscarRomero

GNU Anthony Head. And a wail to the heavens. 💔

A century ago, farmers in the Prairie Provinces fought to treat communications infrastructure as a public necessity instead of a private luxury. A new analysis of the historical data proves they were right to do so: public telecoms build better networks.

Let freedom reign

I guess Bezos had second thoughts about a show where the villains are powerful leaders infected with brainworms..

The Irish government spending years screaming "Putin's puppets!!!" at anyone who disagreed with their foreign policy rings a bit hollow in retrospect when they're telling the Ukrainians to fuck off and the rest of us that it's ok to sell raw materials to Russia, actually

When you adjust for inflation, hourly wages have risen 3 percent since the end of 2019. Corporate profits have risen 50 percent. Workers’ share of the nation’s income has now dropped to the lowest it’s been since records began in 1947. Profits’ share is the highest since 1950.