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Liam McQuade

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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Matzpen, an Israeli socialist organisation, developed a position on Zionism in the 1960s which has been vindicated by history.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In Monday’s edition Jonathan Freedland explains how opposing the Orange Order marching down Garvaghy Road shows no understanding of what Protestantism is.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Next Sunday the British left will be commemorating the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street when fascists were stopped from marching. This Sunday history will repeat itself on the Garvaghy Road. No Pasaran!
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It was always going to be tricky mixing with English racists with a name like Orla Minihane.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I’m returning to The Protestants of Ulster before doing a review of Jamie Bryson’s My Culture War Struggle book. Let’s see if there is any common ground.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
He’s dead now as a result of a lot of posh white journalists destroying him as a human being. It’s an egregious example of racism and class hatred. They don’t do this to their own kind.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
We can lay the death of Jason Arday squarely at the door at the horde of privately educated journalists who’ve devoted the past month to destroying the man, especially the ones who wrote for The Times about him. They are world class snobs and bullies.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I was very impressed by how good Kimi, the new Chinese AI system, was at explaining the differences between Irish dialects and Ernest Mandel’s ideas on the Soviet economy. Then I asked it a question about Mao.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
We probably shouldn’t be surprised that the organisation that made it a point of principle to defend a man accused of rape should gloat over the violent death of a woman. @socialistworker.bsky.social has disgraced itself with this.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Palestine Action, Suffragettes, Kind Hearts and Coronets. “Lady Agatha d’Ascoyne was a pioneer in the campaign for women’s suffrage, with the inconvenient consequence that her public appearances were invariably made under the watchful eyes of the Metropolitan Police.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The Times is essentially the Israeli embassy’s London press office and yet 40% of its readers support the state being banned from Eurovision.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Gregory Double-Barrelled has sorted out his housing problem. It’s not a parody.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
They are unrepentant more than polemical.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The Spectator is certainly doing its best to keep the spirit of Der Stürmer alive.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Workers Power, the Green Party and the Inaugural Address of the International Working Men’s Association. liam-record.com/2026/03/14/i...
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Ernest Mandel gets a mention in @lrb.co.uk. At that time his American comrades were on terrorist watch lists as well.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Loyal Ulster continues to proudly stand four square behind the chiefs of its cargo cult.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Andrew Ranken in the Ulster Hall in 1984. #pogues
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The first time the Au Pairs played Belfast they performed on the back of a lorry at a benefit for the H Block and Armagh prisoners.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Daniel Finkelstein reminds us of the real human tragedy behind the Mandelson story.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Gaza’s impact on radical politics internationally is comparable to that of Vietnam in the late 60s and early 70s. Labour doesn’t have a clue how to deal with it other than slandering people as criminals. That’s not really working out.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I find it hard to believe that Greg Bovino walked into a barber’s and accidentally ended up with the same haircut as Heinrich Himmler.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The Times has been little more than a propaganda outlet for the Israeli government since the genocide started. You have to read The Voice of Hind Rajab review closely to work out who deliberately murdered Hind and her family.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
You need to be a special kind of stupid to look at what’s happening in Iran and conclude that people are willing to risk death because they have been duped by Trump and Netanyahu.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
A vigil in Tower Hamlets calling for the immediate release of the Palestine Action hunger strikers before these prisoners of conscience die.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
You will never enjoy It’s a Wonderful Life at Christmas again when you learn that James Stewart volunteered to fly a bombing mission “for fun” during the American war against the people of Vietnam.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Today is 200th anniversary of the Decembrist rebellion against Tsarism. “The uprising of the Decembrists gained an enduring place in Russian history as the watershed separating eighteenth-century palace revolutions from the struggle for liberation, to which it was a dramatic introduction.” Trotsky
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
How Labour chose to mark May Day in 1981 during the Republican hunger strike.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Prompted by the heroic Palestine Action hunger strikers, I’ve been dipping into David Beresford’s book on the Republican hunger strike. This is how he opens chapter one. It’s very powerful.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Starmer and the Labour right have managed to shake off a quarter of a million fleas and Farage is the major beneficiary of their strategy.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
He’s a patronising snob but it’s an interesting piece by Matthew Parris on the rise of the Greens.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
This piece from The Times on train conductors has aged well.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Paul Mason is likely to be remembered for the most complete political degeneration in the last fifty years of the British radical left. Link in comments.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Four Corners on the Roman Road, Bethnal Green is showing a small exhibition on Gaza which is well worth catching before it closes on Saturday.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Looking forward to seeing ‘Allo Darlin’ tonight.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
A proud English shed.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
The citizens of Windsor prepare to welcome Trump.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
This surpasses anything Oswald Moseley ever achieved.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
It’s now inarguable that support for Labour is now support for a party which is enabling the eradication of the Palestinians.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
The new mayor of Belfast likes a fleg.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
To paraphrase Brendan Behan. There is no condition of human misery that is not immediately made worse by the arrival of Tony Blair.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
As Vietnam gets ready to celebrate the 80th anniversary of its independence today seems to a special day for women. It’s striking that in some parts of the world people can show patriotism by dressing smartly, being cheerful and having fun.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Some flags are more likely to repel customers than attract them.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
@economist.com reveals that the super rich get a kick out of having gold in their excrement.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Raising a glass to the heroes of the Vietnamese Revolution on the 50th anniversary of their defeat of American imperialism.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Peter Perrett, who wrote the most perfect song in the history of music, was among those arrested on Saturday.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Understandable. The only way I could get through an evening of Oasis would be to drink myself into oblivion as well.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
It’s only one ward election in Barking and Dagenham but Labour lost 26% of its vote and the Greens won 30%, not having previously stood. Labour is very vulnerable on its left.
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Kevin Rowland gives Billy Bragg a verbal kneecapping over his reactionary views on the north of Ireland. liam-record.com/2025/07/27/t...
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Liam McQuade @liammacu.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
So does this.
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