At the last EU election, in famously "world's least corrupt" #Denmark, the Social Democrats "bought" 65,000 votes from small green party The Alternative for DKK1.75 million.
The votes ensured the Social Democrats another MEP seat, despite an historically bad election.
www.altinget.dk/artikel/soci...
At its national congress on the weekend, #Sweden 's left party, #Vänsterpartiet (V), raised the stakes for September's national election.
V will vote against any govt it is not part of, setting it on a collision course with the Centre Party (needed for a left govt but has ruled out working with V).
One of the great revolutionary writers, Victor Serge lived through the Russian Revolution & Stalin’s Thermidor before fleeing to Mexico where he died in exile
His life & work, caught between hope & despair, can help us understand Europe’s turbulent 20th century, & our own
jacobin.com/2026/04/vict...
65 years ago, on 17-20 April 1961, #Cuba defeated a US invasion at #PlayaGirón (the #BayofPigs).
It consolidated the Cuban Revolution as socialist. On April 16, #FidelCastro declared it a revolution "of the humble, by the humble, and for the humble"
#GirónEsHoy
cuba-solidarity.org.uk/news/article...
Immer vorwärts #FCBayern...!
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#MiaSanMia #BayernMünchen #FCB #Bayern
Amazing how white men whether Australian, British or American, are given extensive airtime by media to deny war crimes. Where are the victims families? Two don’t even have names. Mere Afghans.
The critical Atlantic current system, #Amoc, is significantly more likely to collapse than previously thought.
This would have catastrophic consequences for Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
How people can ignore the unfolding #ClimateCatastrophe is mind-boggling.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Today marks 150 years of one of the most daring episodes in Irish history.
The #CatalpaRescue of 6 #Fenian #politicalprisoners from Fremantle Prison to the US was a major political coup for the cause of Irish freedom.
#IrishAustralia #Catalpa #SpéirGhorm
hintadupfing.blogspot.com/2026/04/a-vo...
“irony of Ireland’s #fuelprotests is that they may turn out to be more effective than any #climate protest in driving us away from #fossilfuels… but #Ireland still lacks a serious plan to leave that system behind, with no serious timeline”
#SpéirGhorm #Renewables
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
"European Commission President Ursula #vonderLeyen has called for taking advantage of Viktor #Orbán ’s electoral defeat in #Hungary to push for qualified majority voting in EU foreign policy."
A threat to Irish #neutrality, removing #Ireland 's veto.
#SpéirGhorm
www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2076...
This weekend is 150 years since the daring 1876 rescue of 6 #Fenian prisoners from #Fremantle in Western Australia on board the #Catalpa.
Yet it took pressure from the public & #SinnFéin for the National Museum of Ireland to display the Catalpa flag for even 2 days
www.anphoblacht.com/contents/28800
That's not how those words work.
"Viktor Orbán’s Hungarian Model Has Collapsed
Hungarian leader Viktor #Orbán combined talk of defending #Hungary ’s traditions with a promise of prosperity. When he stopped delivering workers good economic news, culture-war messaging wasn’t enough to save him."
#Magyar
jacobin.com/2026/04/hung...
"we are watching another unwelcome phenomenon return to the global stage: the #worldwar…
important to see the wars in #Iran and #Ukraine as part of a global event, rather than two conflicts…
conflict in one region almost certainly will spill over into another"
#WWIII
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/o...
#Hungary has replaced an authoritarian anti-EU #Orbán with a populist pro-EU one.
Just a few years ago, Péter #Magyar was a #Fidesz insider. His win is a win for democracy, but not a huge break with much of "Orbánism".
It just returns it to the EU's centre-right fold.
www.politico.eu/article/pete...
I will never forget how a threat to annihilate the Iranian people has been met by silence from European govts, especially the Irish and Swedish ones.
I didn't expect them to say anything, but that doesn't make it any easier to live with the fact that we are ruled by gutless cowards and racists.
#Trump is not only committing #WarCrimes in #Iran.
Here he is clearly inciting and threatening #Genocide, an act punishable under Article III of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
His impunity rests on force of arms and a global failure to hold him to account
"‘Seismic change’: how election wins for nationalists in Celtic nations could reshape UK
With polls suggesting #PlaidCymru, the #SNP and #SinnFéin could be in power after May vote, constitutional challenges may lie ahead"
#SpéirGhorm #IrishUnity #YesCymru #IndyRef
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
"Rote Räte – die bayerische Revolution aus der Sicht von Augenzeugen" (Trailer)
#MünchnerRäterepublik #BayerischeRäterepublik #Bayern #München #Räterepublik #Bavaria
> www.youtube.com/watch?v=9642...
After the bloody smashing of the Bavarian (or more accurately, #Munich) #Soviet Republic, #Bavaria became an anti- #socialist "Ordnungszelle" ("order cell")
This clash between #communism & #fascism was crucial in the #Nazi Party's rise
#MünchnerRäterepublik #Räterepublik
> jacobin.de/artikel/von-...
On April 7, 1919 the Bavarian Soviet Republic ( #BayerischeRäterepublik) was proclaimed.
Emerging from Bavarian Free State established in the German Revolution of 1918-19, it declared an independent #socialist #Bavaria but was crushed weeks later by proto- #fascist #Freikorps paramilitaries.
#Bayern
The Iranian embassy in Iran quote tweets Trump's insane 'Fuckin Strait tweet with the comment: "This low level of civility and intelligence shown by a leader of a country is regrettable; the shameful fervor with which intentions to commit war crimes are repeated is staggering; and the fact that the Divine is invoked regardless of ill intentions clearly exposes deep fanaticism. Apologies for sharing this language." Trump's tweet reads: "Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP"
my entire timeline on x is now just iranian embassies demonstrating a facility with the english language that puts everything i've ever read from the trump administration to shame
SMH economics editor Ross Gittins got a tooth infection that caused heart failure and nearly killed him. 44 days in the ICU. Weeks on the ward and in rehab
Not a single word in Gittins’ article about the experience mentions that dental isn’t rebatable under Medicare
Prest gaude oinarrizko kanpamenduak gainditzeko eta herri hau gailurrera eramateko: Euskal Errepublika euskaltzalea, sozialista, feminista!
Ez dugu etsiko gailurra zapaldu arte!
@aotegi.bsky.social | Zazpiak #BatEgin ✳️
#Austria has banned US aircraft used in the war on #Iran from its airspace, citing the country’s #neutrality policy.
Vice-chancellor Andi Babler said Austrians “want nothing to do with #Trump ‘s policy of chaos and his war… No to war”
#Ireland take note.
#SpéirGhorm
www.politico.eu/article/aust...
#Germany reintroduced #conscription this year.
A less well known part of this is that all military-aged men (18-45) leaving the country for more than 3 months must now seek #Bundeswehr approval (a requirement previously only applied in times of crisis/war).
#wehrpflicht
www.fr.de/politik/dras...
“A pioneer in #datacentre expansion, #Ireland is a cautionary tale as #artificialintelligence drives a surge in global #energy demand…
current policy embeds fossil #gas at the heart of the sector’s expansion”
#SpéirGhorm #ClimateCrisis #climate #fossilfuels
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
“This was not just the collapse of one court case, but the collapse - once again - of the idea that Irish republicanism can be written off, or written out, on British terms”
#GerryAdams #SinnFéin #SpéirGhorm
www.anphoblacht.com/contents/28794
“Generation #Kneecap Is Transforming Irish Politics…young voters across #Ireland increasingly back #SinnFéin in opposition to partition, inequality and global imperialism…Declan Kearney, discusses the possibilities and pitfalls of this moment”
#SpéirGhorm #IrishUnity
tribunemag.co.uk/2026/03/gene...
