The Week at Work Left Bloc

This week Dave and Clare talk to Conor Reddy about the ongoing Trinity College Dublin encampment and protests against complicity with Israel’s genocide in Palestine.

Conor is a member of the Postgraduate Workers' Organisation of Ireland and a People Before Profit candidate in the upcoming local elections.

Also discussed:


Threats from Amazon Ireland if we don’t allow more data centres
Shortages of energy and water
Leila Doolin skydiving for Gaza on her 90th birthday (https://tinyurl.com/LeilasJump)
Decriminalising drugs

And much more…

This Week Clare and Michelle discuss

Stardust Verdict

Bloody Sunday

Palestine
- West Bank violence increasing -
- Protests against weapons through Shannon for Israel.
- Columbia students encampment
- Banning of people speaking languages at protests - Google workers sacked for protesting Googles role in apartheid.
- Communication Workers Union motion on An Post members not handling Israeli mail.
- Eir and An Post workers pay rises
- Unite policy conference
- Labour Party Councillor brought to WRC
- Josip Strok, Roderick O Gorman, IPO, policing, elections and the far right Hands
- Ireland seeking to abandon ‘triple lock’

In this special episode Councillor Dean Mulligan hosts a public discussion with Clare Daly MEP and Palestinian activist Aseel Marabeh. The event took place on 3rd April in Swords. Dean introduces the event explaining the resistance at local council level to pro-Palestinian initiatives, while Clare Daly explains what is happening in the EU. Aseel gives a horrific breakdown of what is facing Palestinians, particularly in Gaza.

This week, Dave, Michelle and Stiofán Ó Nualláin discuss:


Jeffery Donaldson
Bertie Ahern
Easter rising commemorations
Dublin - a failing capitalist experiment?
The Shannon 3 protest US Military use of airport
Stripsearching and Special branch.
Israel embassy trade threat
BDS actions in the workplace
Palestinian banking
Defunding RTE
The James Connolly Festival (www.jamesconnollyfestival.com)
The Robert Tressell Festival (www.tressellfestival.ie)

And much more...

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This week Dave, Clare and Conor discuss:


A workers' rights Taoiseach
All hail our new overlord
Gannon gets salty with Pepper
Unite victory in the Supreme Court
Calls for suspension of EU Trade Agreements with Israel
Genocide Joe and the continued attacks on Palestinians

And much more...

This week Michelle and Dave discuss:


Palestine & the ongoing genocide
Industrial Relations Act 1990 and Boycotting goods
Sally Rooney:  ‘good
friend’ in the White House.
“the situation in the middle east”
Two state solution
Mary Robinson on RTE
NI open for businesss
SWSW festival
Criminalising peaceful protesting
Investor “activists”
94% of Forsa members voted yes to pay deal. 19 unions with
public service members.
SaveJobs – a coalition to preserve profits