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“Once it was Ireland, Now it is Kenya”: anti-colonialism and internationalism in the pages of the Connolly Association’s Irish Democrat in the 1950s–60s Irish Democrat was the paper of the Connolly Association, a diaspora organisation established to build support for Irish republicanism within the British labour movement. The Connolly Association a...

A year ago, my article with @jimmywintermute.bsky.social was published OA in Irish Studies Review

‘“Once it was Ireland, Now it is Kenya”: anti-colonialism and internationalism in the pages of the Connolly Association’s Irish Democrat in the 1950s–60s’

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“You can build all the dick rockets you want to go to Mars while you try to leave the rest of us on the burning Earth. We’re gonna take control. This is our world, and it’s our government, and it’s our money.”

— Sara Nelson, Association of Flight Attendants president

Powerful front page from L'Humanité on Jean Marie Le Pen: 'His Profession Was Hatred'. The dagger pictured was recovered at the scene of the brutal torture and murder of Ahmed Moulay in Algiers in 1957. One of multiple pieces of evidence showing Le Pen was a torturer.

Happening now: Amazon Labor Union workers and supporters are rallying outside JFK8 on Staten Island ahead of a midnight strike due to Amazon refusing to come to the bargaining table following a Dec. 15 deadline.

#STRIKEMAS

“Ration the Queen’s veges”: Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the poetics of erasure - Overland literary journal In Te Waka Hourua’s intervention, I read a refusal of this binary. By using black spray paint to erase all but a few words and phrases, the activists transform the figuratively white “backdrop” into t...

On the day of Hīkoi mō te Tiriti, here's an encore presentation of Toyah Webb's wonderful article from last April on the guerrilla redaction of the English text of the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand's national museum. overland.org.au/2024/04/rati...

Toitū Te Tiriti 🖤🤍❤️

1/5 I’ve decided* to create a new 3rd year elective for the 2025-26 academic year at UoE on “Fascism, Sexuality & Resistance since the Nineteenth Century” (working title), combining intellectual, political, queer & global history.

Far-right leaders are winning across the globe. Blaming ‘the economy’ or ‘the left-behinds’ won’t cut it | Richard Seymour The economy matters, but the likes of Trump succeed by offering voters revenge for problems both real and imagined, says author and Salvage founder Richard Seymour

Richard Seymour: economic issues like the cost of living matter. But they are mediated through other emotional currents - lone wolf shootings or conspiracy theories about the Great Replacement and paedophile elites. The left must deliver on the economy, but we also need a new social vision.

I continue to update!

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Starter pack for Queer & Trans History (modern & contemporary)! This is a very incomplete work in progress - suggested additions welcome :)
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#4: On passing through Fatigue, arrhythmia and the psychogeography of drifting

New blog post - on flight attendant drifting, via Debord, Lefebvre and social reproduction theory.

#3: On Gender Panic and Fascist Barbarism More notes from this uneven present.

A new blog post on the two recent reactionary moral panics

Dispatch #2: On Ecocide Some incomplete reflections and possible openings

A new Substack post on fossil capital, the climate crisis and aviation
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Dispatch #1: Some Initial Perambulations On writing about capitalism from the (non-)place of flight attendant labour.

After some thought, I've decided to give Substack a go. I'll be writing intermittently on my days off as a flight attendant. Sign-up for free to my newsletter for musings on capitalism, wage labour, subjectivity and whatever else interests me.
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Irish Studies Review All journal articles featured in Irish Studies Review vol 32 issue 3

Our special issue of Irish Studies Review, co-edited by me, Sharon Crozier-DeRosa and Jimmy Wintermute, is out now. It has 5 articles on transnational activism, solidarity and Ireland and a 'snapshots' piece on the current field of transnational Irish studies.

tandfonline.com/toc/cisr20/3...

“Once it was Ireland, Now it is Kenya”: anti-colonialism and internationalism in the pages of the Connolly Association’s Irish Democrat in the 1950s–60s Irish Democrat was the paper of the Connolly Association, a diaspora organisation established to build support for Irish republicanism within the British labour movement. The Connolly Association a...

Very excited to see this new open access article by myself and @jimmywintermute.bsky.social for our special issue of Irish Studies Review (co-edited with Sharon Crozier-De Rosa) on the Connolly Association's Irish Democrat and anti-colonialism in the 1950s-60s

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

With news of my upcoming book out, I have lifted the embargo on my PhD - it's a few years old now but it stands up, I reckon.

A history of Irish women and international communism in the 1920s and 1930s: ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...

A reading list of 15 articles, made open access by Journal of Palestine Studies. Articles provide historical context and analysis of the 17-year Israeli blockade of Gaza.

#Polisky

www.tandfonline.com/journals/rpa...

U.A.W. Expands Strike to Ford Plant in Kentucky The factory employs 8,700 and makes some of Ford’s most profitable products, including pickups and sport utility vehicles.

The United Automobile Workers union expanded its strike against Ford Motor on Wednesday, calling on 8,700 workers to walk off the job at a critical plant in Kentucky.