Paul O’Connell

socialist | trade unionist | legal academic | foghlaimeoir Gaeilge | denouncing the abyss | ✊@This_is_Rise

[Paul O’Connell @pmpoc]

I’m really proud to be part of this new initiative - we desperately need independent working class organisation and power, get involved and help build the better world we need and deserve ✊

[Rise @This_is_Rise]

On International Workers’ Day, we are proud to launch Rise! A movement dedicated to building independent working class power to change the world - on this May Day we must recommit ourselves to building a better world for all, find out more here: https://t.co/zmEpkhuMtd

[Paul O’Connell @pmpoc]

This promises to be an excellent book - looking forward to reading it

[MCFC Fans Foodbank Support @MCFCfoodbank]

Hi all, Alex here! I am pleased and proud to announce my new book, 'For the Love: How Football Supporters Can Change the World' 🎉!

It's about football supporters, community activism and hope at a time when that can feel hard to come by.

[Brendan Ciarán Browne @brendancbrowne]

It is AMAZING how quickly certain people have been allowed back into Palestine solidarity spaces.

Academics who broke the PACBI call, now hosting Palestine events at QUB.

Emily Thornberry addressing an MAP event in the UK parliament.

Our organising really is unserious.

[Mark Curtis @markcurtis30]

Join us later today at 6.30pm where we'll be discussing our new campaign to end impunity for Brits fighting for Israel, and growing restrictions on civil liberties in Britain with @LauraPidcock, @jmcevoy_2, @daniaakkad and guest @pmpoc.

[Paul O’Connell @pmpoc]

I'll be joining the excellent team from @declassifiedUK this evening, to discuss their important new campaign and the assault on civil liberties in Britain - tune in at 6:30pm 👇

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Join us this evening (Tuesday) for a special Declassified Live launching our campaign to demand the UK government investigate Britons returning from serving in the IDF.

Free event, link here at 6.30pm
👉 https://t.co/LAAffLXUCl

[Paul O’Connell @pmpoc]

Solidarity and victory to the Bolivian working class - stalwarts in the fight for a better world ✊

[Ollie Vargas @Ollie_Vargas_]

Bolivia's workers unions held a congress yesterday and confirmed that they will not take part in any dialogue or negotiations.

The general strike against neoliberalism continues, the number of barricades erected along highways is now 90, a record breaking number.

[Paul O’Connell @pmpoc]

While not at all surprising, it’s still worth pointing out that the sane government that has banned two streamers from entering Britain because of their criticisms of Israel, moved heaven and hell to try to let violent Macabi Tel Aviv fans into the country

[Paul O’Connell @pmpoc]

If you’re going to the Durham Miners’ Gala this year, join us on the 10 July to discuss the past, present and future of working class struggle 👇✊

[Rise @This_is_Rise]

Class shapes every part of our lives.

So how do we come together as a class today? How do we build power again?

Join Rise in Durham on Friday 10th July. Durham City Methodist Church, 8 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HL

Link to tickets 🎟️ https://t.co/sdF7hEx1m1

[Paul O’Connell @pmpoc]

While not at all surprising, it’s still worth pointing out that the sane government that has banned two streamers from entering Britain because of their criticisms of Israel, moved heaven and hell to try to let violent Macabi Tel Aviv fans into the country

[Rafeef Ziadah @RafeefZiadah]

Thinking with the many workers, unions, organisers who have responded to Palestinian calls to stop arming Israel. This piece reflects on labour internationalism in a time of genocide & how we might move from sporadic solidarity to collective power. https://t.co/KCuTEWmWka

[Coll McCail @MccailColl]

As Hasan Picker and Cenk Uygur are denied entry to the UK, it’s worth remembering that Isaac Herzog — accused of “direct and public incitement to commit genocide” by the UN Commission of Inquiry report — was welcomed by Keir Starmer on the steps of No10 in September.

[Paul O’Connell @pmpoc]

If you’re going to the Durham Miners’ Gala this year, join us on the 10 July to discuss the past, present and future of working class struggle 👇✊

[Rise @This_is_Rise]

Class shapes every part of our lives.

So how do we come together as a class today? How do we build power again?

Join Rise in Durham on Friday 10th July. Durham City Methodist Church, 8 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HL

Link to tickets 🎟️ https://t.co/sdF7hEx1m1

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

Oh this was beautiful to watch. Just beautiful. Never let these ghouls have a moment of peace.

[Dublin Airport @DublinAirport]

Lost on penalties. Obviously he is English after all.

[Reel News @ReelNewsLondon]

Longstanding Royal College of Art cleaners, Diana and Ricardo, have been sacked for speaking out about the sexual harassment and abuse they and others have suffered in the workplace.

But the @IWGBunion is fighting back.

[Ollie Vargas @Ollie_Vargas_]

Bolivia's workers union confederation official statement: "There is only one demand: Resignation of the government. There is no turning back"

[Amal Saad @amalsaad_lb]

I have been a scholar of Hizbullah for over three decades, and throughout that time I have been repeatedly asked when, whether, or how, it will disarm. Yet in the context of Israel's daily terrorism in the south and the Bekaa, and beyond, the question today has become even more absurd, because those who pose it somehow still fail to grasp that they aren't simply asking about an organisation, but about whether an entire people — the people of the south, the Bekaa, and Dahyeh, Lebanon’s Shia community, and a constitutive part of the Lebanese state — should willingly surrender the only means through which they have resisted their own genocide. And the answer to that is something that rings even more true today than it has in the past--there will be no disarmament of Hizbullah's Resistance, with a capital R, or of any other popular resistance that may emerge with a lower case r, so long as the genocidal Israeli entity exists.

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

“We embrace AI as not something we simply do…AI is part of who and how we are.”

I’m going to say it for the thousandth time: the problem is not the cheating students. They are a symptom of a problem. The problem is that academic administrators are at war with education itself.

[Paul O’Connell @pmpoc]

📢Please sign and share this open letter - my employer, @SOAS , is engaged in victimising two of my fellow workers, who are stalwart trade unionists and leading fighters for workers rights - SOAS must change course immediately - https://t.co/Db1OMYMzdx

[Laura Pidcock @LauraPidcock]

Link to the article below 👇🏻