Mayday 🚩

This afternoon the Mayday organising committee met with chair of @labour @JOConnorTweets - a great discussion on socialism and the future of Labour. @MaydayIrl presents us with a huge opportunity. Join Labour - join Mayday - ourmayday.ie

Congrats to @ivanabacik and most especially to @Labour members who've campaigned over the last weeks and months to amplify the voice of workers in the Dáil. There's clearly a huge appetite for change and for an end to the duopoly. Now on to the Trinity Seanad byelection...

#OnThisDay 1916 James Connolly was taken from the State Apartments in Dublin Castle, taken to Kilmainham Gaol, tied to a chair & executed. Before he was shot Connolly said to his wife Lillie, “Hasn’t it been a full life, Lillie and isn’t this is a good end?” #Ireland #History

‘The Cause of Labour Is the Hope of the World.’ - A #MayDay garland from Walter Crane, 1895.

From 1987 "Mayday! Galway and the Origins of International Labour Day" with introduction from Michael D Higgins irishelectionliterature.com/2012/09/16/fro…

❝ 61% childcare workers are earning under the living wage. Through the @BigStartIreland campaign we have found our voice. During #Covid we had taste for what a nationalised childcare scheme can look like. There should be #NoGoingBack. DM for link to our #MayDay webinar 🌹

This Covid crisis has shown us work life balance for many is all out of kilter. We need to push for a four day week. Fight for a living wage. Most of all, we need to encourage Trade Union membership in every area of society to win for workers. #MayDay2021 #NoGoingBack ✊

These are awesome. Get them! All the cool kids will be wearing them in two months and you don’t want to have missed out.

"I don't have to put on a political costume and a caricature to pretend I'm working class like some" Labour's @DuncanSmithTD criticises the contributions of @MHealyRae & Danny Healy Rae after they accused Labour of not understanding workers or how to run a business @rtenews

Last Oct. EU commission unveiled draft directive that would represent biggest step forward for employment rights in 🇮🇪 in decades Would ensure that workers here could collectively bargain for their wages Now we learn Tánaiste is actively undermining it rte.ie/news/2021/0207…

To the over 20,000 people who responded to our Leaving cert survey, we wanted to say thank you. We have heard what you said and will continue to bring your views to the government Two years of #Leavingcert confusion is not good enough, we need clear communication now!

CETA will undermine ability to tackle climate change & to implement a just transition for workers. It will stifle efforts on #LivingWage & grant greater power to the free market to dictate our climate policy! We urge our comrades in @labour & @PES_PSE to #StopCETA 🌹🌿

#SocialistSunday followables: @Mancyia @Mrswinnie @thehodge116 @RehanaAzam @PJCNDP @AmyNormanNL @cara_hilton @MaddyKirkman @KatrinaFaccenda @BerishaArta @JoventInter @RPDXR @pbpdublin @MaydayIrl @ClonLabour @LabourCfS @LmeBranch @BLAT_Labour @EUproForum @comuns_info @CatEnComuINT

Jim Larkin stood up for the poor and oppressed of Ireland, and around the world. The 1913 strike and Lockout was an event that shaped class consciousness, and taught us: “the great only appear great because we are on our knees... Let us rise.” ✊🍞🌹🇮🇪 #JimLarkin

This day 74 years ago, Ireland lost one of its most forward-thinking and inextinguishable figures, Big Jim Larkin. A socialist, trade unionist, docker, activist and co-founder of the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union and @labour, his legacy will forever endure.

The Labour Party stands with Deliveroo drivers. #DeliverooRidersStrike labour.ie/news/2021/01/2…

Solidarity with Deliveroo drivers- don't cross the picket line! ✊

For those who need reminding, incl those in the Labour Party, below are the party’s policies on Direct Provision and Quarantining for international travellers during COVID. Neither policy is comparable. Direct Provision is in violation of human rights and should be abolished.

“There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of the working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life.” #Inauguration