It's Christmas buying time, so why not buy someone Marc Mulholland's 'At the Rising of the Moon: The Peasantry and Ireland from the Tudor Conquest to the Fall of Landlordism'? (Or order for your library). Tweet summary of the book below.

If you made a dollar a sec you’d have $1 million in 12 days, you’d have $1 billion in 32yrs & $1 trillion in 31,710yrs or 5X longer than human civilization. New rightwing thing is acting like there’s an incremental difference between 5X longer than human civilization and 12 days

Delighted that the @thejournal_ie published my piece on cremation and memorialisation jrnl.ie/7064897

btw few will appreciate how grimly funny it is that this judge both issued a gagging order so that the filton 4 could not explain their motivation to the jury, and then also sentenced them according to a specific intent provision requiring them to have had a specific motivation

This is by far the best writing on the Ulster riots I have seen, from local journalists who know what they are talking about and have real sources: pressreader.com/uk/sunday-li…

‘Our research shows that Musk used the Belfast tragedy to amplify anti-migrant narratives to millions of users, prompting endless calls for violence’ lemonde.fr/en/international/…

"Almost 80 per cent of America’s production is called “services”. ... Countries that provide public health care, and which do not have an active financial sector in the same way ... do not have the same large component of reported GDP in the form of payments to rentiers."

The Government is to introduce a new Derelict Property Tax in 107 cities and towns across the State rte.ie/news/2026/0614/157829…

How Brexit & Boris changed the migration picture in Northern Ireland. Many fewer people coming from the EU with most new arrivals now from South Asia and an increasing number from Africa. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8j2…

#OnThisDay 1984. The National Union of Mineworkers claimed that soldiers are involved in the #MinersStrike The NUM official journal, The Miner, published photographs on its front page that showed an army sergeant driving a police van during a miners rally in London.

RT @BelTel: Knife attack victim Stephen Ogilvie — whose stabbing sparked two days of race-hate rioting — was previously tortured by a UVF-l…

The tricksiness of class politics is that, yes, mass immigration is indeed calculated to weaken and dissipate the proletariat, & that yes, the working class as remade, as it is, remains the only agency that actually challenges Capital. The left seeks to organise & solidarise it.

Today four activists face terror-related sentences for taking direct action against an Elbit Systems weapons factory in Filton, Bristol - a factory that makes drones sent to the genocidal apartheid state of Israel to kill Palestinians in Gaza. Back in April, I warned in Parliament that jurors would not be told terrorism sentences could follow a criminal damage conviction. No terrorism charges were ever brought. The proscription against Palestine Action has since been ruled unlawful. The defendants were even prevented from telling the jury they acted to stop genocide. This is a Labour government defending Israeli death factories and stripping away all of our fundamental rights. Everyone who cares about our democracy should be outraged.

A small but important segment of the New Left “turned to industry,” getting jobs in steel, auto, and elsewhere to build a militant current in the US labor movement. The Rank-and-File Project is aiming to build a similar current of democratic, militant unionism today. jacobin.com/2026/06/rank-and…

The enormity of the Filton 4 outcome is hard to overstate. 3 of the 4 were found guilty of criminal damage, and that alone. No terror-related charges were involved. But they have, for the first time, been *sentenced* as terrorists. I suspect this will become more & more common.

🍌On December 6, 1928, Chiquita slaughtered up to 2,000 striking Colombian farm workers.🇨🇴🩸The Masacre de las Bananeras is a key chapter in the bloody history of repression by the United States and its monopolies in their Latin American banana republics.🧶1/10⬇️ #MonroeDoctrine

Yes, defence has a weak multiplier but at least the money is always well spent and delivers world class kit.

Since I was born, Italy has ran primary surpluses every single year but seven, which coincided with the global convulsions of 2008-11 and 2020-23. During much of that period it was the worst performing G7 economy by a substantial margin. The last years have surely shown that what the Italian economy needed was a spending impulse, not further arson to its social fabric. Even for the Taliban of Neoliberalism at the IMF this should be clear now.

I think most of this country’s ruling class will not tolerate a revamped Labour government that is basically Ed Miliband Plus Mates, and I include at least a third of the PLP in that. Especially if the incoming replacement cabinet actually tries to fix things that are broken.

Anthony Eden as the first modern PM: "Churchill once commented that he used every cliché except 'God is love'. That was deliberate; Eden often struck out original phrases from speech drafts and replaced them with clichés." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthon…

Healey wanted to increase defence spending by £28bn/year from £61bn to approx £89bn. That's an increase of 40%! It was an ABSURD ask - UK would be the fourth largest military spender in the world after US, China and Russia. Vast amounts of that would be siphoned off by rapacious, price-gouging contractors in the most corrupt industry in the world. And none of it would help - in fact, it would mostly worsen - the biggest threat to global security, which is climate change. The right wing press will try and present Healey's ask as eminently reasonable, but it was a ludicrous cash grab at the same time that were cutting overseas aid, climate change mitigation and welfare spending.