Michael Pierse

Notions: the Lives of Irish Working-Class Academics, edited by Iona Burnell Reilly, Stephen Baker and yours truly, will be published in May: www.hive.co.uk/Product/Iona...

#OtD 5 Mar 1943 a strike broke out at the Fiat Mirafiori plant in Turin. The strike spread and, within a week, 100k workers were out. Authorities arrested 850 workers but were forced to concede. Learn more about the Italian resistance to fascism here: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-...

This takes courage.

Colour me shocked, wonder what state that specialises in genocide, colonial land theft & complex spook operations could POSSIBLY be involved in launching these attacks?

It Is a Real mystery alright.

Paraphrase of very long text; The Iranian ship that was just sunk by the US off Sri Lanka was unarmed, and part of a training exercise. The US knew this, and torpedoed them anyway before leaving the crew to die.

New level of performative depravity unlocked

While Trump wages war abroad, working Americans are barely treading water at home. “We now have a government that cannot manage even a simple crisis at home, while, at the same time, stumbling into a continuing catalogue of catastrophic events abroad.”

The Iran chaos distracts from trump's failures at home. Rising prices. ICE’s violence toward US citizens. Epstein files. Americans want safety and justice. They want to be able to pay their bills. Instead, they’re getting cover-ups, corruption, and chaos.
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It’s astonishing how British newspapers and Tory and Reform politicians line up behind a clearly demented American president to attack the British Prime Minister. I’m an Irishman and have no dog in the fight, but it’s really weird (treacherous?) to constantly back a foreign country ahead of your own

US strikes on Iran ‘outside international law,’ says Macron Macron joins Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez in calling the legality of the strikes into question.

After four days of hesitating, the president of France has joined the prime minister of Spain in saying that the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 attack on Iran is a violation of international law.

But they are still the only 2 EU leaders to have done so. Will others join?

“The purpose behind the release of herbicide on the villages remains unclear.”

Israel has been dumping herbicides throughout southern Lebanon as part of a concerted ecocide campaign to render the region uninhabitable. This has been going on for months with Lebanese journalists & environmentalists regularly reporting on it.

The BBC: we don’t know why the Israelis are doing it

Officers of the UCU at QUB branch proudly displaying bright pink flags emblazoned with the slogan “We are the university”

What a beautiful day on campus for a trial run of our new flags! 😍🌸🌞 #WeAreTheUniversity

UK to allow US to use British bases for defensive strikes against Iran Keir Starmer says the UK has not been involved in the US-Israeli strikes, but warned that 200,000 British people are in countries being targeted by Iran

Propaganda works by repeating lies. 'Defensive' is the operative lie here. I feel ashamed to be British. 🇮🇷🇵🇸🇾🇪🇱🇧
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They’re really trying to do drive-thru colonization

It’s defensive when we do it, but offensive when they do it.

Trump has undermined NATO, ripped up treaties and laws.
He has threatened Iran, Greenland, Canada, Venezuela, Panama and Cuba.
He’s illegally removed the leaders of 2 sovereign states.
We need to fully comprehend what a world with no respect for sovereignty means.
No one is unaffected by this

Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton | Sadiq Khan The threat to the party in some parts of our country is now existential. But we can progress, as we have in London, by being bold and strong in our core beliefs, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

"Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton" says London Mayor Sadiq Khan

Khan now publicly going against comments by Mahmood and others in the Labour party as they continue to pander to the right.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Record number of journalists killed last year, with Israel responsible for two-thirds of the deaths Israel was also responsible for nearly two-thirds of the journalists killed in 2024.

Record number of journalists killed last year, with Israel responsible for two-thirds of the deaths jrnl.ie/6967411

RTÉ journalist Vincent Kearney spied on by PSNI, MI5 and Met Police over eight years Wife and mother-in-law caught up in snooping scandal

Irish News: RTÉ journalist Vincent Kearney spied on by PSNI, MI5 and Met Police over eight years
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Armed police flood Iran’s universities to crush student protests Campus clashes provide uneasy backdrop to third round of talks on nuclear programme in Geneva Plainclothes police and security forces, many of them armed, have tried to flood Iran’s remaining open universities in an attempt to crush a fourth day of student protests against the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. Running battles were reported on some campuses, with videos showing fistfights between the Basji state-backed militia and students at the University of Science and Technology in Tehran. Pick-up trucks with machine-guns were photographed parked outside the University of Tehran, with demonstrations also in Mashhad. Continue reading...

Armed police flood Iran’s universities to crush student protests

Record number of journalists killed last year, with Israel responsible for two-thirds of the deaths Israel was also responsible for nearly two-thirds of the journalists killed in 2024.

Record number of journalists killed last year, with Israel responsible for two-thirds of the deaths jrnl.ie/6967411

Witness told FBI Trump threatened to ‘disappear’ girl and have her ‘whole family killed’ Under penalty of perjury, a witness told the FBI back in 2016 that they had “personally witnessed” President Donald Trump threaten to “disappear” a girl and have her entire family killed, according to...

A sworn FBI tip alleges Donald Donald Trump threatened to “disappear” a girl and have her family killed—testimony given under penalty of perjury, not a tweet. Democracy demands scrutiny of power; silence protects predators. Law, not intimidation, must rule. #EpsteinFiles #AccountabilityNow

Keir Starmer calls on Andrew to testify in US over Jeffrey Epstein links Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who was stripped of his royal titles last year, features heavily in the latest tranche of the Epstein files

Wouldn't it be wonderful, if this was the beginning of the end of the monarchy?
#AbolishTheMonarchy
#Epstein #AndrewTheNonce
#Mountbatten #EpsteinFiles

We have new totals, folks
#EpsteinFiles

Konaté maybe the unsung hero tonight. #LivNew

Remember this if they bomb Iran and create the mother of all distractions.

DOJ has since killed this link. This is what was there:

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Military Tells Key Middle East Ally to Prepare for Attack on Iran In addition to military targets, Trump is considering strikes on senior Iranian leaders with the aim of spurring the overthrow of the Iranian government.

not enough terrifying/awful news for one day? well... www.dropsitenews.com/p/united-sta...

Very happy with this cover for ‘Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955’, which features a detail from Evie Hone’s stained glass window 'Four Green Fields'. This window was originally shown at the New York's World Fair in 1939, but is now found in Government Buildings on Merrion Street

Reform UK proposed a British ICE to "to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal immigrants" last August...

Their 'Operation Restoring Justice', a slimmed-down version of Trump's 'Project 2025', also promised mass deportations, new detention centres, and the disapplication of human rights laws