Our Stiofán Ó Nualláin giving the annual BelfastTradesCouncil May Day lecture, talking about the factors behind the rise of the far right and how trade unions can respond.

This was as certain as night follows day, you’d have to be delusional not to have expected it. The only reason it has taken this long is that the Starmerites have depended upon right-wing trade union votes on the NEC for their forever war against the left. ft.com/content/fe1608…

Join us this Friday 3rd May from 7pm. We'll be downstairs in the ICTU offices

We're launching our new Safe Secure Homes Campaign to organise towards the abolition of no-fault evicitons.

We'll be joined by like-minded orgs as we continue the fight for better housing in our city

#MayDay4Palestine 🇵🇸

🎬FILM SHOWING🎬

“Rent Strike 1970-73: Reclaiming the History of Irish Tenants’ Struggle” followed by a panel discussion

Organised by CATU Ireland as part of #FNGG24

🗓️6.30pm, Friday 17 May
📍Raidió Fáilte
🔗Link to register below

#Community #Solidarity #Wellbeing

The emperor has no clothes. The entire world knows it is Israel destabilising the region, committing genocide and lawless acts of aggression against its neighbours. But the European Parliament wants to tell a fairytale in which Iran's the aggressor. Cop on. Nobody is buying it.

Two more sleeps until this event! Get along for an important debate. TrademarkBelfast Stiofán Ó Nualláin

Don’t miss a week of packed events for #MayDayBelfast24 #MayDay2024

#WorkersMemorialDay2024 ✊💗

We're honoured once again to speak at #TUC Black Workers Conference about the global threat of the far right and it's emergence as the preferred partner of authoritarian neo liberalism BelfastTradesCouncil
Stiofán Ó Nualláin Seán Byers @ #heretofightheretostay

'As EU policymakers mobilize against their external rivals, the bloc’s internal rifts – between industrial core and underdeveloped periphery – continue to widen.'

Excellent stuff by Scott Lavery

May Day programmes dished out across the city today, pick one up in your local haunt or have a kneb here…. capartscentre.com/2024/04/may-da… #MayDay2024 #MayDayBelfast24

A group of masked men attacked an #antifascist public meeting in #Stockholm , #Sweden , on Wednesday night, assaulting participants with punches, kicks, pepper spray, & a smoke bomb.
They filmed themselves doing it.
3 people were hospitalised.
#Gubbängen
1/3
redox.dk/nyheder/masker…

UPDATE: German police are using extreme violence to evict the pro-Palestine camp outside the German parliament. The brutal eviction of the non-violent activists comes as police have banned the two-week-long camp with no legal basis. The activists are calling on Berliners to leave…

87 years ago today the #Basque town of #Gernika was bombed by the #Nazi Luftwaffe's Condor Legion & #Mussolini 's #fascist airforce on #Franco 's orders.
It was market day. 1500 civilians were killed.
From #Guernica to #Gaza , we say #NeverAgain !
#NoPasarán #Gernika 87 #Gernika 87urte

This is why they’re banning TikTok… they don’t want you to know their bombs were used to hit refugee camps…🇵🇸💔

700 bodies now discovered at Nasser hospital alone (1,500 uncovered at Al Shifa), patients, some with catheters still attached, children, with hands still bound, doctors and nurses, still wearing their scrubs, many shot in the back of the head at point blank range execution-style

Italian communists led the anti-fascist resistance that overthrew Mussolini and helped end WW2. Today, Italy celebrates “Liberation Day” to commemorate the resistance’s victory.

'At least 20 people may have been buried alive at the medical complex. Children were also amongst the bodies recovered'

‼️📢 May Day Gig 📢‼️ As part of our family fun day after the march and rally this year we are delighted to announce Blind Dog Floyd as our main live music act, bringing the rock and blues to Larkins Square! 🎸🎤🎵🥁 #MayDayBelfast24 Prog: bit.ly/MayDay24Prog