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Rory Hearne: Tackling Housing Crisis & Far-Right in Ireland | European Elections
Link : Rory Hearne – We need Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to be decimated
“We Need Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to be Decimated”
Readers can note a welcome statement here in solidarity with Ukraine against the Russian imperialist far-right invaders :
In terms of the broader issues facing Europe, the EU has largely gone for a containment strategy against Russia in the Ukrainian war. It’s difficult to see too any other viable approach, given that the continent is faced with such a dangerous – not to mention nuclear-armed – adversary in Vladimir Putin. It truly is an absolute nightmare.
“It is,” nods Hearne. “Europe has responded in the best way it could. We rightfully absolutely opposed the horrific invasion of Ukraine. There’s no question the Russian invasion is imperialist, and it was horrific watching it. I would support how the EU has responded, and I’m proud of Ireland taking in Ukrainian refugees. What I’d say is we have to continue to support Ukraine. I think we also need to find ways of peace, and ways of not creating a permanent war there.”
See also : Ukraine and Palestine: building real solidarity is hard work
The left in Ireland needs to commit itself to a policy of no governmental coalition with the political right in any circumstances. See here : Vote left transfer pact June 7 2024 – positive PBP proposal
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May 16, 2024 at 1:17 pm
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British SWP Promotes Marxism 2024 in London: Parody Politics – Ukrainian Left and AntiWar Russians Excluded
On February 24 2022 the biggest war in Europe since World War 2 began : Russia invaded Ukraine.
In London The British SWP promotes Marxism 2024 – like the fictional insular Brit Basil Fawlty, Alex Callinicos (and a supporting cast including Jeremy Corbyn,Tariq Ali, and Yanis Varoufakis) offer parody politics.
This event is planned as 100% free of Ukrainian left and social movements and antiwar Russians. No debate here and no solidarity with victims of imperialism unless it is western imperialism.
For a different perspective, on Tuesday May 14 join socialists from Ukraine, Russia and elsewhere who are campaigning for the freedom of a political prisoner Maksym Butkevich.
John Meehan May 11 2024
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May 11, 2024 at 12:51 pm
Posted in Anti War Movements, Arts and Culture, Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS), Britain, British Empire, Campism, England, Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (ESSF), European Network Solidarity with Ukraine and against war Basic consensus, Fawlty Towers, International Political Analysis, Ireland, Irish Left With Ukraine, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Left Evasionism, Migration in Europe, NATO, Neutrality, Russia, Socialist Workers' Party (Britain), Tariq Ali, Ukraine, Ukraine Russia War 2022, Westplaining
Palestine, Ukraine and the crisis of empires – Simon Pirani
Simon Pirani’s article is recommended. Unfortunately many Irish left-wing organizations and activists, such as People Before Profit and Clare Daly MEP, have adopted the policy advocated by the British Stop the War Coalition. In the conclusions section of this essay Pirani observes :
In May [2021], you wrote that Stop the War is “supporting the people of Palestine, who have a right to resist occupation”. I agree with that. But why no such statement about Ukraine?
And if Ukrainians, or Palestinians, have a right to resist, what does it mean? Does it only mean standing up to tanks with your bare hands, as Ukrainians have had to do? Does it mean throwing stones, often the only weapons that young Palestinians have? What about proper weapons? Do you think Palestinians have a right to those? And Ukrainians?
About the Author :
Simon Pirani is a British writer, historian and researcher of energy. He is honorary professor in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Durham.[1] From 2007 to 2021 he was senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (with a period as senior visiting research fellow in 2017-19).[2]
In 2018 Pirani published Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption, in which he portrays consumption growth as a result of world capitalist economic expansion.[3] He argues that the relationship between technological systems that account for most fossil fuel use, and the social and economic systems in which they are embedded, is paramount. His articles and presentations on this theme are collected on his website.[4] He also writes about these themes on a blog, People & Nature Link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Pirani
Palestine, Ukraine and the crisis of empires
On the Easter weekend, on the latest gigantic march in London against UK complicity in Israel’s war on Gaza, a group of us took a banner that said “From Ukraine to Palestine, occupation is a crime”. We were welcomed by marchers around us, and people took up our slogan.
But beyond a slogan, what can we, in the labour movement and social movements in the UK, do about these conflicts that are transforming the world we live in, and heightening fears of bigger, bloodier wars?
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Apr 8, 2024 at 3:07 pm
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“Are there two international courts?!!” – Post published by the Cedar Lounge Revolution Blog
A very welcome post by Des Derwin, first published on the Cedar Lounge Revolution blog. Source : https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2024/01/16/are-there-two-international-courts/
Last week the left – alongside all decent people – was blaring a fanfare for the referral of Israel by South Africa to the International Court of Justice. And rightly so, of course. It is to be welcomed and it should be supported by the Irish government. All platforms and publications of the left are buzzing with it. South Africa is being commended effusively for their initiative and congratulated wholeheartedly for their solidarity with the people of Gaza. The left has, obliviously, great respect and faith in the International Court of Justice. The left sees it as very significant that a state should be brought to the International Court of Justice to answer for its crimes.
The BBC reported: ‘evidence submitted by South Africa claims “acts and omissions” by Israel “are genocidal in character because they are intended to bring about the destruction of a substantial part of the Palestinian national, racial and ethnical group”’. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67922346
The Irish government and many other governments are being accused, not least by the Irish radical left, of double standards, inconsistency and hypocrisy in their attitudes and responses to Russian crimes in Ukraine and Israeli crimes in Palestine.
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Jan 16, 2024 at 9:40 am
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The Irish Government and Gombeenish Elected Representatives are igniting their own bonfire by conceding to racist protests
We owe the headline to an excellent Justine McCarthy column in the January 12 2024 edition of the Irish Times :
Recent migrants found locked in a ship at Rosslare were Kurds and Vietnamese, people on the sharp end of global warming. This trend will only increase
This article, very commendably, gives us all stark truth. Here is a key extract :
The latest anti immigrant protest is happening in the Tipperary town of Roscrea and was the subject of a 24 minute RTÉ radio discussion on the January 12 2024 Today with Clare Byrne Show.
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Jan 12, 2024 at 2:04 pm
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“Ireland could and should join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel” – Maeve O’Rourke (Galway Human Rights lecturer) plus several members of the Irish Oireachtas (Houses of Parliament)
“Ireland must make decisions for itself – as a state party to the Genocide Convention, with a responsibility to act to protect humanity” – Maeve O’Rourke
Dr Maeve O’Rourke is a lecturer in Human Rights at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway
Left wing members of the Dublin Dáil and Seanad (Irish parliamentary Institutions) are supporting South Africa’s case against Israel under the 1948 Genocide Convention.
Direct Comparison Between Russia and Israel :
Matt Carthy TD, Sinn Féin, made a direct comparison between Israeli genocide in Gaza and Russian genocide in Ukraine :
Some say “But” when presented with the Ukraine-Gaza-Genocide comparison.
The writer Fred Leplat gives us a very clear answer :
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Jan 11, 2024 at 7:13 pm
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Tagged with Gaza, Genocide, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine
The War in Ukraine: Agenda for the Left – the most serious war on the European continent since the end of World War 2 in 1945 has not gone away, you know
Here are the latest articles published on the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine website ukraine-solidarity.eu in English.
For more information, write to the network at info@ukraine-solidarity.eu.
Israel’s genocidal war against Palestine has pushed Putin’s genocidal invasion of Ukraine off the national and international headlines, but the most serious war on the European continent since the end of World War 2 in 1945 has not gone away, you know.
In a rational left-wing political ecosphere, all forces across the left would be promoting the information below, and seeking collective action in solidarity with the workers and social movements of Ukraine against Moscow’s sinister far-right invasion. It is time to step up solidarity with Ukraine, before it is too late. One of the articles linked below is reproduced at the end of this blog post : The War in Ukraine: Agenda for the Left . We also reproduce the latest news report written by the outstanding Irish Times Eastern Europe correspondent, Daniel McLaughlin.
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Jan 3, 2024 at 4:30 pm
Posted in Anti War Movements, Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS), Campism, Crimea, Daniel McLaughlin (Irish Times), Double Standards, Dublin Governments, Eastern Europe, Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (ESSF), European Network Solidarity with Ukraine and against war Basic consensus, European Union, Fortress Europe, Fourth International, Free Russians Ireland, Genocide, International Political Analysis, International Viewpoint, Irish Left With Ukraine, Israel, Israel Assault on Gaza, October 2023, Left Evasionism, Left Wing Organisations, Media Sources - Reliable Versus Unreliable, Migration in Europe, Posle Magazine, Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement), The Irish Times, Trade Unions, Ukraine, Ukraine : Women Raped by Russian Invaders, Ukraine Russia War 2022, War
Norma Barzman, Screenwriter Who Was Blacklisted During McCarthy Era, Dies at 103
I came across this fascinating obituary because Norma’s son, John Barzman, is known to me – although we never properly met in person. John is a longtime activist in and around the Fourth International – he participates within the European Network in Solidarity with Ukraine (ENSU). Link : European Network for Solidarity With Ukraine
Until today, I knew nothing about John’s family background – many condolences to John, and all friends and family of Norma Barzman.
More about John Barzman here : He is professor emeritus at the University of Le Havre in Normandy where he teaches contemporary history and American civilization. He is a member of Ensemble! and the Fourth International. Link : John Barzman
A correspondent, Walter Lippmann, writes : “I met her a year or two ago at her home. What a wonderful person she was and I’m so sorry it was not possible for me to take a picture of her that day. She was still working at the age of 101 or so. Totally articulate and very radical. Her interview in the collection Tender Comrades is excellent, as is her blacklist memoir.”
John Meehan December 31 2023
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Dec 31, 2023 at 11:22 am
Posted in Anti War Movements, Arts and Culture, Ensemble! (Revolutionary Left), European Network Solidarity with Ukraine and against war Basic consensus, Fourth International, France, Hollywood Blacklist, McCarthyism, International Political Analysis, Ireland, John Barzman, Marilyn Monroe, Norma Barzman, Revolutionary History, Russia, Trotskyism, Ukraine, Ukraine Russia War 2022, USA
Tagged with cinema, film, marilyn-monroe, movies, review
Ukraine Needs Extra Aid – Everywhere, far-right forces are trying to facilitate Putin’s genocide – Oppose genocide in Ukraine and Palestine
Dublin City Council has voted unanimously to fly the Palestinian flag at City Hall on Dame Street for seven days. Great decision.
The Ukrainian flag should flutter alongside the Palestinian flag. Solidarity with the people of Palestine and Ukraine – under genocidal bombardment from the states of Israel and the Russian Federation.
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Dec 5, 2023 at 1:40 pm
Posted in Anti War Movements, Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS), Dublin Governments, European Network Solidarity with Ukraine and against war Basic consensus, Genocide, International Political Analysis, Ireland, Irish Left With Ukraine, Israel, Israel Assault on Gaza, October 2023, Joe Biden USA President, Racism, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Russia War 2022, War
Tagged with imperialism, Israel, israeli-apartheid, Justice, Palestine, solidarity, Ukraine
From Ukraine to Palestine – Occupation is a Crime
This statement comes from the USA Ukraine Solidarity Network. We thank Joan McKiernan for supplying the information.
Howie Hawkins, who was the Green Party Presidential Candidate in the 2020 General Election which Joe Biden won, explains the meaning of the demonstration photographed below :
Note the Ukrainian-themed flag in the center of this picture from the Palestine solidarity demonstration in Washington, DC on Saturday. It is not the official Ukrainian flag, but it has the same blue and yellow colors and the Ukrainian trident symbol. Apparently, somebody was trying to express solidarity with the Ukrainian as well as Palestinian liberation struggles. This picture is from a Green Party page of pictures and videos from that demonstration and others last weekend at https://www.gp.org/ceasefire_now.
From Ukraine to Palestine: Occupation Is a Crime!
Statement from the Ukraine Solidarity Network
We Stand with Ukraine. We Stand with Palestine.
End the Genocide in Gaza!
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Nov 6, 2023 at 11:27 pm
Posted in Anti War Movements, Apartheid, Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS), Crimea, Crimean Tatars, European Network Solidarity with Ukraine and against war Basic consensus, Howie Hawkins Ecosocialist Candidate, USA Presidential Election 2020, International Political Analysis, Ireland, Israel, Israel Assault on Gaza, October 2023, Left Wing Organisations, Tempest (USA), Ukraine, Ukraine : Women Raped by Russian Invaders, USA