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Reviewing the weekly news and how those stories impact on workers.
In our first episode of 2021 we're joined by activist and author Conor McCabe to discuss:
Jan 10 2021
1hr 16mins
Gillian McSweeney, ex-Debenhams worker and Mandate Trade Union member talks to us about their 9 month strike with the company.
Almost 1,000 workers were made redundant back in April 2020 and their employer failed to pay them their agreed redundancy package. Gillian talks about her experiences on the picket line and how the strike has impacted on her politically.
Dec 17 2020
43mins
This week Clare and Dave look at CETA, Noel McGree Whistleblower, Tribunal Costs, An Post, PornHun, Kingspan & Grenfell, Nama & Project Eagle, Student Nurses, SInn Fein & much more
Dec 13 2020
52mins
This week we’re joined by Councillor Dean Mulligan (Independents4Change) and Lilith Carroll (TENI) to discuss:
Dec 06 2020
1hr 12mins
Michelle Gavin, an ex-Debenhams worker from Waterford with 27 years service, explains the strike and its impact on all workers. The workers have been on strike for 230 days now - in rain, hail and storms. She talks about government inaction and being left high and dry first by the company and then by the State. Michelle also talks about loss and trauma during the strike as well as how she has taken actions she never thought she would. We hope this will form part of a series of interviews with ex-Debenhams workers. Because they deserve to be heard.
Nov 25 2020
28mins
This week we’re joined by People Before Profit Councillor Tina MacVeigh to discuss:
Nov 22 2020
1hr 12mins
This week we’re joined by Eoin O’Broin TD & Sinead Redmond discuss:
Nov 15 2020
1hr 21mins
This week we’re joined by our new Washington correspondent Joe Guinan (Anglo-Irish exile in the imperial metropolis · Vice President Democracy Collaborative) & activist Mark Malone (activist, communicator & researcher) to discuss:
The election of Joe Biden;
Kamala Harris and the glass ceiling;
Irish coverage of the new President;
Will another Trump emerge?
Could Bernie Sanders have won?
The importance of political education;
The new Undercover Policing Inquiry;
Water charges to re-emerge;
Services for children with special needs;
Facebook moderates ads for moderators;
Kingspan and Grenfell tower fire;
The long-term impact of COVID19;
Nov 08 2020
1hr 16mins
This week we’re joined by Paul Murphy TD and Ber Grogan to discuss:
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Nov 01 2020
1hr 11mins
This week we’re joined by Dave Murphy & Diana O’Dwyer from RISE and Rupture Radio Podcast to discuss:
Oct 25 2020
1hr 10mins
This week we’re joined by Glenn Fitzpatrick and Ciaran Campbell to discuss:
Oct 18 2020
1hr 8mins
On this special episode we talk to Mairead Farrell TD (Sinn Fein), Ciaran Nugent (NERI) and Lorna Bogue (Green Party Councillor and Just Transition Greens co-Chair) about what’s in Budget 2021 and what a left Budget would look like.
We talk about the framing of the Budget by the media, housing, education, climate action, cutting the PUP, business supports, tax breaks for high earners, SIPTUs successful pensions campaign, Capital Gains Tax cuts for entrepreneurs, lack of capital infrastructure, live entertainment supports, and we even talk about what’s not in the Budget – like a wealth tax.
Oct 14 2020
1hr 3mins
This week we’re joined by Saoirse McHugh and Conor McCabe to discuss:
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Oct 11 2020
1hr 12mins
On this special episode, our hosts David Gibney and Clare O'Connor talk to Stiofán Ó Nualláin, Emma Clancy and John Barry about #LeftBloc, an exciting new media and political education project in Ireland. Included in the media hub is A Worker's Guide to Everything; The Week at Work; Nuall Na NÓg; Offshore; A news based website; and a Climate Justice podcast currently in production.
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Oct 10 2020
44mins
On this special episode we talk to Vicky Phelan and Gino Kenny TD about the upcoming vote on the Dying with Dignity Bill and why we need to have this important discussion now. Vicky exposed the cervical cancer scandal and is living with terminal cancer and Gino Kenny has proposed the Bill that would allow those with terminal illnesses to have assistance in achieving a dignified and peaceful end of life.
Oct 05 2020
38mins
This week we are joined by Stiofán Ó Nualláin from Trademark Belfast to discuss: COVID Island, Seamus Wolfe & the KKK, the Green Party oppose a ‘Just Transition’, Michael Darcy & TDs who lobby, education errors, a four day week, wage subsidy scheme & Debenhams, Mairead McGuinness as commissioner for financial services, Cable Street & communists banned from the US.
Oct 04 2020
58mins
This week we're joined by Independent TD for Donegal, Thomas Pringle, and Community Activist Michelle Byrne to discuss: COVID & capitalism, Third Level Education rankings & student poverty, airline arseholes, flat rate expenses, Debenhams and Estee Lauder strikes, VAT cuts & spreading the virus, businesses seek to restrict protests, Dying with Dignity Bill, co-positions on co-living by Housing Minister, Spike Island sacks union activists, Red C poll, environmentally reckless capitalism, publicly funded private schools and FG Minister interferes with GMIT governance.
Sep 27 2020
1hr 10mins
In this episode we talk to Bernadette McAliskey and Ciaran Campbell whose families were both targeted by loyalist death squads. We get their reflections on "Unquiet Graves", the documentary about British government collusion with the Glenanne Gang, leading to the murders of more than 120 people, including the Dublin/Monaghan bombings.
Sep 25 2020
46mins
Sep 20 2020
46mins
Sep 13 2020
1hr 12mins