For centuries the Irish have emigrated, built the world and supported families and communities back home. This Christmas new communities from all over the world proudly call this island home. Often torn away from the land and the people they love, just as centuries of Irish have been. [1/7]

For centuries the Irish have emigrated, built the world and supported families and communities back home. This Christmas new communities from all over the world proudly call this island home. Often torn away from the land and the people they love, just as centuries of Irish have been. [1/7]

On our last days flying before a bad weather front was coming up, we've learned of a wooden boat that disappeared in the Mediterranean. About 100 people are missing now. We are flying to search for traces of them. Our thoughts are with their families & friends.

A new report documents how far-right disinformation in Ireland is driving real-world violence, as 13 active extremist groups fuel attacks that are amplified as propaganda by global networks. Read our report:

Imagine rebuilding your whole life in 28 days. Finding a home, getting a job, setting up a bank account. Sounds impossible, right? But that's what the Government expects from newly-recognised refugees.

If you read one thing today, let it be this. www.bigissue.com/opinion/vuln...

Far right scum have been out harrassing the homeless on the streets & they are proud of it. The folks at @calaisappeal.bsky.social are doing everything they can to stand up to the hate 🙏 please stand with us 🙏 www.youtube.com/shorts/bxFVG...

From yesterday: Court of Appeal upholds right to appeal in asylum support cases where Home Office withdraws claim | Sonia Lenegan

Napier should have been closed years ago. It set the, low, standard for the conditions we see elsewhere though. Nobody should be being stuck in these camps. Instead of closing them we are seeing proposals to increase their use. There are better alternatives. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Today, actions are taking place across Europe against the expansion of Frontex and the EU border regime. Frontex is building its first permanent training centre in Warsaw, set to open in 2026, to train hundreds of border guards each year. #AbolishFrontex [1/3]

Frontex, the EU’s border guard agency that enforces the militarised policies of Fortress Europe, has led to 10s of thousands of deaths. Drowned in the Mediterranean; shot at borders; died by suicide at detention centers, tortured and killed after being deported. Frontex are now providing … [1/n]

It’s International Migrants Day, and let’s never stop fighting for a world where anyone can move if they want to, and no-one is forced to move if they don’t want to

Because our politics is in such a terrible place, I think we downplay quite how awful Kemi Badenoch has been. In any other era the leader of the Conservatives saying 'only migrants commit sex crimes - mass deportations now' would have not just been career ending but would've sunk the whole party

The critical condition of the eight hunger strikers whose actions seek to draw attention to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, remind us of British colonialism, which is a structure of domination that continues to this day 🇵🇸⤵️

Frontex, the EU’s border guard agency that enforces the militarised policies of Fortress Europe, has led to 10s of thousands of deaths. Drowned in the Mediterranean; shot at borders; died by suicide at detention centers, tortured and killed after being deported. Frontex are now providing … [1/n]

Expanding Frontex’s training infrastructure means expanding a system built on deterrence, deportation, and racialised exclusion — and the denial of safety to people on the move. #AbolishFrontex Read joint statement in full. [3/3]

The UK is effectively criminalising a sentence because has an Arabic word. Intifada just means uprising. The Warsaw Uprising, for example, is just ‘Intifadat Warsaw’ in Arabic. Our very identities are being effectively criminalised. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In case there was any doubt, the Department of Justice's classification of "safe" countries is a farce. Excellent, if bleak, reporting from @shamimmalekmian.bsky.social in @dublininquirer.com

Lotts of that kind of scumbags around the world now novaramedia.com/2025/12/18/m...

Today, actions are taking place across Europe against the expansion of Frontex and the EU border regime. Frontex is building its first permanent training centre in Warsaw, set to open in 2026, to train hundreds of border guards each year. #AbolishFrontex [1/3]

From End Deportations Belfast 'Disinformation on migration and the creation of the ‘other’ serves fascism well. The criminalisation of migration after all, is thinly veiled white supremacy. The endgame? To make border guards of ordinary people and divide communities.'

Today is the International Day to End Violence against Sex Workers. National Ugly Mugs maintain a memorial map that allows you to read about sex workers who have been killed around the UK and Ireland. #Dec17 nationaluglymugs.org/about-num/me...

The key facebook group which was helping narrow down a list of houses to attack and has been unrepentant in supporting the rioting is run by people from Ballymena. It is still up and nobody behind it facing any charges, of course.

From End Deportations Belfast 'Disinformation on migration and the creation of the ‘other’ serves fascism well. The criminalisation of migration after all, is thinly veiled white supremacy. The endgame? To make border guards of ordinary people and divide communities.'

The criminalization of migration is nothing but population control and white supremacy. This requires reflection and few of those anti-immigration figures bother, but it helps consolidating power by also spreading fear and distrust. They are not genuine. They do not care.

This was always the endgame - to make border guards of ordinary people.

So many people trapped in asylum limbo have suffered in Northern Ireland in Mears Accommodation. Accommodation should be Home Office funded but provided by state and local authority bodies where there are standards, transparency and accountability.

Left: Chief Rabbi says chants likes 'from the river to the sea incite hatred' Right: Is Netanyahu inciting hatred when he says from the river to the sea?

11% of Britons say they feel 'very negatively' about trans people which just highlights how much this is a top-down hate project with around 95% of the media hating trans people and a high percentage of MPs.

“A universal system of human rights was built to make sure that we could never end up in that nightmare scenario [of hierarchisation of rights in the Nazi era] again. We have to be very cautious and careful about the ultimate consequences of the paths we might embark on.”

Immigration detention, including Larne House immigration detention centre in Northern Ireland is state mandated violence against women. The Home Secretary's call to half violence against women while she is implementing extreme harm to women is galling. [1/2]

These are British people likely without EU free movement privilege travelling internationally to commit acts of transnational extremism with no intervention or action from British Government. This is state sanctioned impunity. www.france24.com/en/france/20...

'Keir Starmer & Danish counterpart, Mette Frederiksen, argued that an update of the convention on human rights was needed to help see off the rise of the populist right. O’Flaherty rejected the link. “For every inch yielded, there’s going to be another inch demanded. Where does it stop?"'

These are British people likely without EU free movement privilege travelling internationally to commit acts of transnational extremism with no intervention or action from British Government. This is state sanctioned impunity. www.france24.com/en/france/20...

The ECHR is a fundamental and foundational pillar of our peace process and peace agreement. No one who believes in a values-based present and future for our shared island should be undermining it.

We're hiring! Anti-capitalist researcher #vacancy 👉Would you like to use strategic research skills to support movements fighting inequality, war and ecocide? Would you like to work for a small workers' coop? Then get in touch! Closing date 1st Feb. corporatewatch.org/corporate-wa...

Once again, the Labour government shows it has no red lines over Israel. The latter uses banned cluster bombs in Lebanon and foreign minister Hamish Falconer just says he's "concerned". The UK has torn up international law to protect Israel. #DCUKparliament

Deeply worrying to see the Foreign Secretary demand more "force" on our border, and support dangerous 'pushbacks' which make crossing attempts more deadly. State violence on the border already costs lives. We need to stop the deaths, not incite more violence.

"Migrants who came to the UK on skilled work visas in 2022-23 will make a net contribution of £47bn to the public finances over their lifetime, according to new estimates from the government’s Migration Advisory Committee." Not surprising, but some observations (1/n) www.ft.com/content/10da...

The IRC is no substitute for an Independent Assessment of Paramilitary Activity in the North with full powers. We advocate for a full independent assessment and the formation of an independent international body to monitor compliance with disarming, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR). [1/2]

Big jump in outstanding asylum appeals - nearly 70,000 waiting to be heard at the end of September. More than the initial decisions backlog. 60 weeks the average time to disposal. 37% of disposals now due to withdrawals - presumably as the Home Office realises how bad the decisions were.

Keir Starmer is urging other European countries to “go further” in undermining or as he claims ‘modernising the interpretation’ of the European convention on human rights (ECHR) to prevent people seeking asylum from using it to remain in a country. In the 6th largest economy in the world .. [1/n]

2/ Today, Keir Starmer marked Human Rights Day by beginning discussions about potential changes to these long-standing protections. Alongside the wider erosion of refugee rights and the Government’s proposed “one in, one out” system, people’s lives have been reduced simply to numbers.

If Starmer's so willing to blithely surrender rights to freedom from torture or to live your life privately without government interference, all in the name of "democracy", then Farage will try the same with the death penalty and freedom from discrimination. Anyway, happy Human Rights Day 😬

Keir Starmer is urging other European countries to “go further” in undermining or as he claims ‘modernising the interpretation’ of the European convention on human rights (ECHR) to prevent people seeking asylum from using it to remain in a country. In the 6th largest economy in the world .. [1/n]

So the plan is to close one ‘fundamentally unsuitable’ barracks… only to open more? The same prison-like, isolating conditions that harm people’s health and wellbeing don't magically improve with a new postcode. #CloseTheCamps

The IRC is no substitute for an Independent Assessment of Paramilitary Activity in the North with full powers. We advocate for a full independent assessment and the formation of an independent international body to monitor compliance with disarming, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR). [1/2]

We must support each other to navigate this hostile asylum & immigration system to secure our safety. The Right to Remain Toolkit is an important resource that can equip ppl going through the system. ow.ly/ozhi50XGktB #NoOneisIllegal #MigrationisLife #TheseWallsMustFall

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New research from CAJ & Rabble Cooperative examines how social media & misinformation fuelled racist violence in Ballymena in June, & how political and community responses shaped events @enddbelfast.bsky.social @netpol.org Sat 6 Dec, 1pm @museumfreederry.bsky.social www.eventbrite.ie/e/inciting-a...