Trade Union & Community activist. President Galway Council of Trade Unions. Mandate NEC.
Galway, Ireland
Joined September 2019
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Eoghan Fox retweeted
Hundreds of thousands of workers strike in Spain, carrying placards shaped like houses, chanting "We have no home".
EU summit in Dublin discusses competitiveness and war.
Worlds apart.
rte.ie/news/europe/2026/1111…
Eoghan Fox retweeted
The driver who got his train to make an unscheduled stop at Huntingdon that allowed police to stop the knife attacker and others to escape had just ten seconds to contact a signaller and switch tracks. Don’t you dare say train drivers ‘just push buttons.’ bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm5y…
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There is a Major Govt Misinformation Campaign Aimed at Manufacturing Consent to Abolish (Not ‘Reform’) Our Triple Lock Safeguard -The False Narrative is that this will ‘Protect UN Peacekeeping’ -FALSE -Its Removal is to Permit NON-UN EU ‘Peace Enforcement’ -Ending Our #Neutrality
Govt Misinformation #101 1. Rush Abolition Of Triple Lock Debate Thru Dàil & Cttee Stage 2. Announce Deployment of Irish Troops to #Lebanon on Non-UN Mandated EU ‘Peace Enforcement’ ‘Support’ Mission to Assist ‘Disarmament’ of #Hezbollah 3. Accuse Opposition of ‘Misinformation’🤷
Eoghan Fox retweeted
"An Dream Dearg said the DUP “should be ashamed”.They claimed it is a “sectarian, anti-Irish veto that will hurt over 7,000 young people attending Gaelscoileanna”, adding “The DUP should be ashamed”."
DUP bid to block legislation around Irish-medium education an ‘act of blatant sectarianism’
irishnews.com/news/northern-…
Eoghan Fox retweeted
"We are the party that represents the person who gets up early in the morning and does a good, decent day’s work" says leader of party who refuses to properly tax those whose main 'work' is living off the gains of accumulated wealth.
Eoghan Fox retweeted
Govt Misinformation #101 1. Rush Abolition Of Triple Lock Debate Thru Dàil & Cttee Stage 2. Announce Deployment of Irish Troops to #Lebanon on Non-UN Mandated EU ‘Peace Enforcement’ ‘Support’ Mission to Assist ‘Disarmament’ of #Hezbollah 3. Accuse Opposition of ‘Misinformation’🤷
Eoghan Fox retweeted
The Soviet Union dragged a feudal backwater into the industrial age, crushed fascism, and gave millions rights the West still treats as privileges. You call that a murder machine because your history books start the body count the day the working class took power.
Eoghan Fox retweeted
The long-term unemployment rate (unemployed for 12 months or more) in Q2 was 1.3%, up from 1.1% a year earlier. That’s fewer than 40 thousand (38,900) people out of 2.99 million in the labour force. #FGAF26
Eoghan Fox retweeted
Late stage capitalism:
A supermarket throws perfectly good food in the dumpster, pays its workers so little they can barely afford groceries, then asks customers to donate to the food bank at checkout.
And we're supposed to admire how fucking efficient this system is.
Eoghan Fox retweeted
Ahead of Saturday's protest, as part of the Europe-wide Day of Action on Data Centres, Gerry McGovern finds that "AI’s devouring mouth doubles every day" – and "it wants more and more and more water..."
hotpress.com/opinion/drought…
Eoghan Fox retweeted
Due to housing, Irish 25-34 yr olds are 10* more likely than Danes to live in their childhood home, where household income is counted
As there are fewer actual young adult households, (lower average incomes=start of careers) the distribution seems more equal, but it's artificial
Income inequality has declined across the EU over the past decade. In Ireland it is now lower than Sweden and Denmark. This and more discussed in this week's column.
thecurrency.news/articles/24…
Eoghan Fox retweeted
Government's proposed legislation is not a 'reform' of the Triple Lock, it is the *removal* of the Triple Lock.
There is only one side misinforming.
Eoghan Fox retweeted
Every level of the trade union movement can become an Apartheid Free Zone: national offices, trades councils, individual branches.
We are calling on workers to put a motion to your next branch meeting. Declare your union branch an AFZ by 26 November #BDS
apartheidfree.ie/trade-union…
Eoghan Fox retweeted
Wow! The Democrats won!
Their first order of business will certainly be to investigate and prosecute US officials responsible for complicity in genocide in Palestine, the crime of aggression in Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Somalia, Nigeria, and Venezuela, the murder of boaters in the Caribbean, and the abduction of the Venezuelan president.
They will also dismantle the lawless, political militia known as ICE, end the persecution and harassment of human rights defenders opposing genocide on college campuses and in US cities and punish the perpetrators. The excesses of the AUMF and Patriot Act will be immediately repealed and our rights restored. Israel regime proxy control of US institutions will be ended and punished, the First Amendment restored, and universal healthcare will finally be provided as a human right.
Right? ……. Right??
Of course not. They are accomplices in the same criminal enterprise.
Sorry, I can’t make it to the party. I have to work.
Eoghan Fox retweeted
The far right grows in the soil of neoliberal crisis. Yesterday in Leicester with @CWUnews ULRs we talked about why democratising economic knowledge matters. You can't challenge the far right without challenging the system that feeds it. ✊
#leftpoliticaleconomy @S_O_Nuallain
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Okay, another basic, incurious liberal - marvellous
Q: Were you ever a socialist?
Abdul El-Sayed: No. I'm too much of a scientist to actually believe in any sort of ideology.
I just don't do ideology. I'm a person of faith, and everyone else brings evidence.
The idea that you should have guaranteed healthcare in the country, anybody who tells you that's anti-capitalist is not really understanding how capitalism works.
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Marxism isn’t an political system or an ideology that you have to follow blindly. It’s a way of understanding the world, processes of change, and the oppressive systems that we live under. That’s why the ruling class is terrified of it.
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'Time and time again, people spoke of how the dominant narrative served to silence, to other, to label, to exclude and to stifle critical thinking.'
President Connolly's inauguration speech in which she called out that centre right reflex to label dissenting voices 'hysterical'.
He has become hysterical about what is a common-sense move by government to get rid of an anachronistic measure. The removal of the TL will have no impact on our neutrality. I can remember the 1972 referendum when our neutrality was said to be threatened by EEC membership. 54 years later, we remain militarily neutral.