“The same instinct — an unwillingness to allow anyone but those seen as most loyal to the regime to flourish economically — can be seen in the Iranian government’s response to the latest round of protests.”

Exposing Foreign Involvement in Sudan’s Evolving War, by Husam Mahjoub – 15 February 2026 leftrenewal.org/articles-en/...

Latest from me on Substack (please subscribe - it's free!).... on the SEND reform clock reaching 11.59, and the prospect of precious rights being torn away just as Reform UK might take power maybeimamazed.substack.com/p/noise-worr...

Amplified: The Exportation of the Culture Wars will release globally, in all English speaking countries, on Feb 20. We worked incredibly hard over a period of years on this. I hope you’ll check it out youtu.be/CaFJw71Kyo4

Here's a plaque in memory of his speaking in Dublin in 1845.

Sighle Humphreys married Donal O'Donoghue on 19 February 1935. This writer wishes Donal had 'waited until this unfortunate country was free' before marrying, as many married patriots 'eventually ignored the ills of the Motherland in the tranquillity of the domestic hearth.' #ValentinesDay

“[The FAI] could show a real bit of balls and refuse to play Israel. They should stand up in my view for the Palestinian state, the Palestinian people and the Palestinian football organisation.” - Brian Kerr, former Republic of Ireland manager

A trickle of Palestinians have passed through Rafah Crossing since its partial reopening. Those returning face intimidation by Israeli soldiers and the Abu Shabab gang, as well as the confiscation of their belongings. By Ruwaida Amer. Read more: www.972mag.com/gaza-rafah-c...

This selective solidarity always reveals just how superficial many of these people’s support for Palestine actually is. For many Western anti-imperialists, the Palestinian cause has become a “progressive” mask to conceal deeply held pro-authoritarian sympathies. (1)

To confront Israeli fascism, we need a new Jewish-Arab party I have seen firsthand the limitations of existing Arab parties. If we want to bring about real change in this land, an entirely new political model is required. By Dr. Basheer Karkabi. www.972mag.com/jewish-arab-...

This is the horrific reality we’re up against. Violent crime in Palestinian towns and cities is at a record high — fuelled by government and police policy of deliberate neglect.

Threads director Mick Jackson has expressed worry over the upcoming remake’s focus on finding “hope even in the most challenging of times.” “That one phrase worried me,” he tells Empire. “Hope is not part of nuclear war.” Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...

Suffering does not make you a moral authority Being a victim does not make you righteous Pain does not make you wiser

Really good article on the diversity of historic Zionism, the gap between it and contemporary Zionism, and how US Jewish public opinion has shifted on this question as a result. [The dynamic is similar in the UK, but hasn’t moved so fast.]

Standing up to the far right is good, actually

To think everyone used to hate Martin Edwards. A saint compared to this creep. I'd point out that immigrants built Manchester to him but I suspect this Monaco resident wouldn't give a damn. Another nail in the coffin etc ... news.sky.com/story/the-uk...

The 2nd chapter of my book Solidarity and Pressure, on the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, has been made free to read. Looks at overlaps with the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland, trade unions, and the efforts of John Hume, Seán MacBride, & the Belfast branch academic.oup.com/book/61377/c...

Paperback cover of The Last Ditch published by Hachette and coming out in May. Very fond of it, looks like the poster for a 1953 film noir about a retired safecracker trying to rebuild his life only to be dragged back into crime by an old colleague. 'There is no place to hide in THE LAST DITCH.'

“To read the files is to realize that class solidarity is real – just not within the class where Marxists might hope to find it.”

Documents from a rally in support of strike action by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO), which took place outside Leinster House #OnThisDay, 9th February 2019. www.leftarchive.ie/demonstratio...

On Ed Moloney, 'truth' and the Troubles brianhanleyhistory.wordpress.com/blog/

the Irish government aren't going to say or do shit about ICE flights of Palestinians going through Shannon because the Irish government is still issuing deportation orders against Palestinians

Through daily harassment, killing, house demolition and eviction, the Israeli government is trying to provoke a Palestinian uprising in the West Bank. Their aim is to repeat in the West Bank what was done in Gaza, and, if possible, orchestrate mass expulsion to Jordan. 1/

THREAD 🧵: The Epstein files are real. The antisemitism they're fueling is also real. And right now, the second part is getting almost no attention.

By popular demand, we are removing the paywall from this informative and prescient article by @adambienkov.bsky.social from last July's print edition The Myth of Morgan McSweeney subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/75/t...

Great piece

This is the same mentality Tracey used when his preferred authoritarians were confronted over documented human rights violations. If you’re shocked by his statements on Epstein, then you weren’t paying attention to the many times he applied the same framing to victims of Assad/Putin’s crimes. (1)

Forget 'reprehensible'; this is a stain on the Irish state. Of course, the issue is not new, but if we are serious about human rights, we need to stop the use of Shannon for these flights. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

On December 28, 2024, the IDF kidnapped Dr Hussam Abu Safiya from his post as pediatrician and director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza. He had refused to abandon his patients. He has been held in Israeli prison without charges ever since, tortured, starved, refused family visits.

I was delighted to discuss my research on the Ulster Special Constabulary with the Irish History Podcast podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/i...

6 FEB: @msp-archive.bsky.social will be releasing over 2,580 new files in the public domain. The files relate to 1,089 individuals/veterans who served during the Irish Revolution (1916-1923). This release brings the total nominal entries on our database to 22,032. share.google/fodhyupD9nE7...

At #LeftRenewal, we continue to update our dossier on the Iranian uprising and its repression, with voices from trade unions and activists from the region and its diaspora. Recent content from @sia-shahabi.bsky.social @sepehrhaghighi.bsky.social @radiozamaneh.bsky.social @chowmak.bsky.social + more.

“8 in 10 people believe that everyone should be able to access a trade union in their workplace for help with employment issues 99% of SDLP voters 96% of Sinn Fein voters 92% Alliance voters along with 6 in 10 DUP & UUP voters” @LucidTalk polled 2,975 www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politic...

This is terrifying: A group of Palestinian students and teachers who are citizens of Israel were brutally attacked by Israeli settlers during a school trip. (1/3)

shocked, shocked to find this person lied

These are the people many in anti-imperialist/leftist circles were taking foreign-policy analysis from. The Epstein case proves yet again that their politics is simply contrarianism with no substance. (1)

Our next seminar is on Mon. 9 Feb. - Niall Whelehan will speak about ‘Radicalism, colonialism and the life of an Irish doctor in Argentina at the fin de siècle’. All welcome www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

Most of this story was run in the FT a long time ago. Most of the media ignored because they all loved Mandelson. Now they are all pretending to be surprised.

Great stuff here from Paddy Mulroe and Fin Dwyer open.spotify.com/episode/1ga6...

Dr. Intissar Shamlakh Al-Rubaie was killed today in an IDF airstrike on her home in Gaza City in northern Gaza, reports the Palestinian Medical Association. She leaves behind her husband. Today and every day, healthcare workers are not a target.

Weird and almost universal revisionism today. Even at the time, it was pretty clear that Mandelson wasn't appointed *despite* his dodgy links but *because* of them. Trump's Washington is a dirty swamp. Mandelson was deemed a man able to swim in it. This wasn't a secret. Everybody said it out loud.

A government that isn’t interested in governing with @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social is out now wherever you get your podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

FF & FG have had literally over 100 unbroken years of governance to do something. Yet they constantly act like they popped into existence five minutes ago and throw a strop if you suggest otherwise. Refuse to govern, refuse to take responsibility, refuse to do anything except say "DONT BLAME ME"

In Hebron’s hyper-militarized Old City, a Palestinian cinema opens its doors The city's first movie theater in nearly a century is defying Israeli movement restrictions and settler attacks to screen political films for locals and activists. By Basel Adra www.972mag.com/hebron-hyper...

my first article of the year is about how Alan Shatter is not in the Epstein Files, obviously, despite a circulating hoax claim to the contrary leftinthelurch.net/2026/02/01/a...