Ellen Fearon

From DIY roots to the Olympic podium, our expert guests Dave Camilleri and Liam Healy take Glenn into all things BMX. Give it a listen here: shorturl.at/zSCi0

A bit of everything in this episode - Free Climbing, Olympic Climbing, all the many varieties of competition and sport climbing. If you like the idea of scaling things, getting out in nature or finding out about something completely new, this is for you. open.spotify.com/episode/2rfoGX…

I'm so excited that @Left_Field_Pod, a podcast a year in the making, is finally released! Join me, @EllenFearon, @AliyahDavies1, and @snoopyinabook and discover your new favourite niche sport (mine is roller derby 🛼) Listen🔽 open.spotify.com/show/6oVHNis4m…

Mythical dogs, rich cultural history, local rivalries, and a complex scoring system, hurling's got it all! Join Glenn and Ellen for episode one of the Left Field podcast as they discover more about one of Ireland's most popular sports. Listen here: shorturl.at/I8WZj

🚨🎙️ New podcast alert! 🚨 Bored of the same old mainstream sports? Looking for one that's a little... different? We've got you covered. Here at Left Field we talk about all the wonderful, niche sports that don't make it to your TV. Listen now: shorturl.at/Yi5c7

Our co-director @fortuashla just went on Politics Live to discuss this government’s disgraceful proposed cuts to disability benefits. We will never accept a two tier system which plunges 150,000 disabled people into poverty, whilst the super rich stash away millions every day.

We’re building a movement to take on the 1% — and win. Because there is enough money to fund schools, hospitals and climate action. It’s just being hoarded. It’s time for the super rich to PAY UP. 📢Under 35? Join our campaign launch call at the link in our bio.

Putting the burden of a broken university system on students is not the answer. Join us Students' Unions from across NI in condemning calls for fee increases, at a time when student poverty is out of control. Sign the petition and share widely: nus-usi.org/dont-increase-…

The hatred, fear and division required for the far right to thrive is fuelled by gross imbalances in wealth, income and power - and the sense of powerlessness it gives way to. Now isn’t the time for timidity. We need an economic system that isn’t hardwired to create inequalities.

Michael Murphy will maybe get home at lunchtime on Tuesday

This photo made my day. Solidarity with #GiselePelicot and all survivors.

I don’t know how to start unpacking the emotions I’m feeling as I watch the liberation of Syria from the Assad regime. There will be time to process, but one thought that keeps echoing in my mind: I can go home now. We all can go home. The refugees can go home. Home.

Today, we brought 70+ young people into Parliament and spoke to over 40 MPs, demanding they fight for a Green New Deal - face to face.  We told the story of our generation - of austerity, climate breakdown, stagnating wages and rising prices. And demanded bold solutions. 🧵

This is every meeting you have when you work in nonprofit

In Valencia, ay least 100,000 people have showed up to demand the resignation and, in some cases, arrest of Mazón for his negligence in managing the catastrophic Valencia floods. In Madrid & across Spain, hundreds of thousands more chant and whistle in solidarity with Valencia.

Politics is not something you "have." It's something you DO. If your "politics" doesn't involve building and wielding collective power, it's not politics.

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point. Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it.  It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this. But these are all just symptoms.  The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned. Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even *basic* steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future. Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment.  At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development. The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital. And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism.  They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative. So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.

BREAKING 🚨: We’re outside Downing St ahead of #Budget24 calling for taxes on extreme wealth. Because we can’t afford tweaks to the economic status quo. We need a government that delivers solutions at the scale of the crises we face.