Alex Klemm
@alexklemm.bsky.social
Leftist. Trade unionist. Dublin.
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The perverse logic of Government’s immigration policy: it points to the benefits that immigrants bring to the economy. Then it says there are too many immigrants. And if you point out this contradiction, you're accused of wanting to close down the debate! tinyurl.com/r3s9myka
The Perverse Logic of the Government’s Immigration Policy
The Government’s narrative is that asylum seekers are a cost that must be reduced – by making Ireland an unattractive place for those seeking international protection. This ignores that fact …
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December 8, 2025 at 10:56 AM
The perverse logic of Government’s immigration policy: it points to the benefits that immigrants bring to the economy. Then it says there are too many immigrants. And if you point out this contradiction, you're accused of wanting to close down the debate! tinyurl.com/r3s9myka
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Can progressives work (together) to end FF/FG perma-government? First test Galway West by-election ...
The first electoral test for progressives in the Connolly Coalition will be the Galway West by-election. A voter-transfer pact is essential to maximising support and the minimum needed to show that progressives are serious about building an alternative to the current Government.
October 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Can progressives work (together) to end FF/FG perma-government? First test Galway West by-election ...
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If you’re curious about “25 ready baked ideas” for #housing they include building garden sheds & dark studios the size of 2 parking spaces; super inflating land values; & new shortcuts that risk “irregular practices”, public safety, the environment, & incurring fines on climate targets #halfbaked
October 27, 2025 at 10:54 AM
If you’re curious about “25 ready baked ideas” for #housing they include building garden sheds & dark studios the size of 2 parking spaces; super inflating land values; & new shortcuts that risk “irregular practices”, public safety, the environment, & incurring fines on climate targets #halfbaked
The Overton window moving ever further to the far right ...
Germany’s Social Democrats often sound the alarm about the rising far right. It would help if their own elected officials didn’t constantly spread misinformation about migrants stealing from the welfare system.
German Social Democrats Cast Low-Wage Migrants as Fraudsters
Germany’s Social Democrats often sound the alarm about the rising far right. It would help if their own elected officials didn’t constantly spread misinformation about migrants stealing from the welfare system.
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October 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The Overton window moving ever further to the far right ...
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50% of households find it difficult making ends meet. Temporary measures won’t solve this. We need to promote wages and incomes, reshape market prices, and provide free public services. Affordability is one of the foundations of an alternative government: tinyurl.com/wzj3usnf
The Affordability Deficit
We have an affordability deficit. Even with low unemployment, solid job creation, relatively low inflation and reasonable economic growth, nearly half of households are finding it difficult making…
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October 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
50% of households find it difficult making ends meet. Temporary measures won’t solve this. We need to promote wages and incomes, reshape market prices, and provide free public services. Affordability is one of the foundations of an alternative government: tinyurl.com/wzj3usnf
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Hospitality VAT cut was farcical. But tax cuts for property developers were insidious. Developers’ lobby told the Government – give us more subsidy or we won’t help meet your housing targets. And the Government blinked. Because it has no strategy: tinyurl.com/bdfc9kwd
Profits and Threats in the Irish Housing Market
While the VAT cut on food services was farcical, the tax cuts for property developers was insidious. It was framed as necessary measures to increase apartment construction viability. But the …
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October 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Hospitality VAT cut was farcical. But tax cuts for property developers were insidious. Developers’ lobby told the Government – give us more subsidy or we won’t help meet your housing targets. And the Government blinked. Because it has no strategy: tinyurl.com/bdfc9kwd
Judging from her remarks on RTE's This Week earlier and a quick scan of her Facebook page, Humphreys seems to regard the role of President as some sort of trade ambassador. A limited vision, to put it mildly.
October 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Judging from her remarks on RTE's This Week earlier and a quick scan of her Facebook page, Humphreys seems to regard the role of President as some sort of trade ambassador. A limited vision, to put it mildly.
This.
"If" it happened?
Anyone who has ever "fallen on hard times" like Jim Gavin claims his family did is painfully aware of their bank balance every single day.
There is no "if" here. There is simply a series of choices that were made.
#Áras25 #TWIP
Anyone who has ever "fallen on hard times" like Jim Gavin claims his family did is painfully aware of their bank balance every single day.
There is no "if" here. There is simply a series of choices that were made.
#Áras25 #TWIP
'If it happened, I'm very sorry that it happened. I'm looking into it, and I will deal with it with urgency'
www.corkbeo.ie/news/jim-gav...
www.corkbeo.ie/news/jim-gav...
October 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
This.
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“Pay rises for construction workers are solution to housing crisis, not the problem, says union”
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www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
Pay rises for construction workers are solution to housing crisis, not the problem, says union
Pay rises are the solution to the housing crisis and not a problem, a union has claimed.
www.independent.ie
September 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
“Pay rises for construction workers are solution to housing crisis, not the problem, says union”
www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
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This is one of the councillors who Gareth Sheridan has support from. #SpeirGorm
August 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
This is one of the councillors who Gareth Sheridan has support from. #SpeirGorm
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Amazon reached deep into the union-busting playbook in Delta, BC. It failed.
@unifor.org workers held the line and won.
Now quit the stalling and get to the table.
#MakeAmazonPay
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
@unifor.org workers held the line and won.
Now quit the stalling and get to the table.
#MakeAmazonPay
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Amazon's bid to overturn B.C. labour ruling granting unionization to its workers rejected | CBC News
British Columbia's Labour Relations Board has rejected a bid by e-commerce giant Amazon to overturn an earlier decision that awarded union certification to workers at a facility in Delta, B.C.
www.cbc.ca
August 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Amazon reached deep into the union-busting playbook in Delta, BC. It failed.
@unifor.org workers held the line and won.
Now quit the stalling and get to the table.
#MakeAmazonPay
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
@unifor.org workers held the line and won.
Now quit the stalling and get to the table.
#MakeAmazonPay
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Ireland will disporportionately suffer from the 15% tariff. Over a quarter of all Irish goods exports go to the US. The EU average is 8%. How is this a good deal for Ireland or the EU?
July 28, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Ireland will disporportionately suffer from the 15% tariff. Over a quarter of all Irish goods exports go to the US. The EU average is 8%. How is this a good deal for Ireland or the EU?
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Average CEO pay in large Irish publicly quoted companies rose by 31%. Average employee wage rose by approximately 4%. Increase in CEO pay rose nearly 8 times faster. This should be a political issue.
What do Ireland’s best paid chief executives earn?
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
What do Ireland’s best paid chief executives earn?
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
What do Ireland’s best paid chief executives earn?
Top executives’ average pay package rose by 31 per cent to €4.36m last year
www.irishtimes.com
July 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Average CEO pay in large Irish publicly quoted companies rose by 31%. Average employee wage rose by approximately 4%. Increase in CEO pay rose nearly 8 times faster. This should be a political issue.
What do Ireland’s best paid chief executives earn?
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
What do Ireland’s best paid chief executives earn?
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
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We’re being told public spending is getting out of control. But Ireland is a low spender. We’d have to increase public expenditure by up to €15 billion just to reach EU averages. We need to significantly increase spending – and the revenue to pay for it. tinyurl.com/bdfpetw9
We're Not Spending Enough
Voices are growing louder. Government spending is getting out of control: ‘surging public spending’, ‘rising faster than planned’, ‘fiscal incontinence’; and the killer punch: public spending has doub...
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June 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
We’re being told public spending is getting out of control. But Ireland is a low spender. We’d have to increase public expenditure by up to €15 billion just to reach EU averages. We need to significantly increase spending – and the revenue to pay for it. tinyurl.com/bdfpetw9
Delighted something is finally being done to put the Sean McDermott Street 'Magdalene laundry' to good use and recognise the generations of working-class women and girls incarcerated there.
June 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Delighted something is finally being done to put the Sean McDermott Street 'Magdalene laundry' to good use and recognise the generations of working-class women and girls incarcerated there.
Memory holes and the unpublishing of inconvenient truths - illuminating piece (paywalled unfortunately) by @fotoole.bsky.social
Official documents are quietly disappearing from departmental websites. Why?
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Official documents are quietly disappearing from departmental websites. Why?
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Fintan O’Toole: Official documents are quietly disappearing from departmental websites. Why?
The range of departments engaged in this alarming disappearing act suggests it is not accidental
www.irishtimes.com
June 17, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Memory holes and the unpublishing of inconvenient truths - illuminating piece (paywalled unfortunately) by @fotoole.bsky.social
Official documents are quietly disappearing from departmental websites. Why?
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Official documents are quietly disappearing from departmental websites. Why?
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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A reminder to reporters, when historians look back on this moment with the president throwing himself a military parade and the people throwing No Kings rallies across America, the media sources raving about the former and sneering at the latter are going to be quoted by name.
This is your legacy!
This is your legacy!
June 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
A reminder to reporters, when historians look back on this moment with the president throwing himself a military parade and the people throwing No Kings rallies across America, the media sources raving about the former and sneering at the latter are going to be quoted by name.
This is your legacy!
This is your legacy!
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Today is 'No Kings Day' in America. Demonstrations in over 2,000 cities against the authoritarianism of Trump's rule are taking place. Solidarity with all those marching in the US and around the world for democracy and the rule of law.
June 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Today is 'No Kings Day' in America. Demonstrations in over 2,000 cities against the authoritarianism of Trump's rule are taking place. Solidarity with all those marching in the US and around the world for democracy and the rule of law.
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When our mothers were young workers, job interviewers could ask about their family planning or childcare arrangements!
Soon we’ll ban asking job applicants about their earnings to ensure if you’re in a job where you’re underpaid or undervalued, low pay won’t follow you for the rest of your career.
Soon we’ll ban asking job applicants about their earnings to ensure if you’re in a job where you’re underpaid or undervalued, low pay won’t follow you for the rest of your career.
Ever wonder if the guy next to you in the office is getting paid more for the same work? Now you can find out
Picture this: you’re on a coffee break with a colleague with whom you’ve worked alongside for years. You have a lingering suspicion that you’re paid less than them – despite being in the sale role and...
www.independent.ie
June 8, 2025 at 9:42 AM
When our mothers were young workers, job interviewers could ask about their family planning or childcare arrangements!
Soon we’ll ban asking job applicants about their earnings to ensure if you’re in a job where you’re underpaid or undervalued, low pay won’t follow you for the rest of your career.
Soon we’ll ban asking job applicants about their earnings to ensure if you’re in a job where you’re underpaid or undervalued, low pay won’t follow you for the rest of your career.
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When Huerta says “We are a power”
He means the farmworker, the janitor, the nurse, the home care provider. The workers.
And he’s right.
You can’t detain a movement.
#FreeDavidHuerta #FreeThemAll
He means the farmworker, the janitor, the nurse, the home care provider. The workers.
And he’s right.
You can’t detain a movement.
#FreeDavidHuerta #FreeThemAll
June 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
When Huerta says “We are a power”
He means the farmworker, the janitor, the nurse, the home care provider. The workers.
And he’s right.
You can’t detain a movement.
#FreeDavidHuerta #FreeThemAll
He means the farmworker, the janitor, the nurse, the home care provider. The workers.
And he’s right.
You can’t detain a movement.
#FreeDavidHuerta #FreeThemAll
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UPDATE: David Huerta has been released from the hospital but remains in custody.
His words: "We all collectively have to object to this madness because this is not justice. This is injustice."
Free David Huerta. Free them ALL.
His words: "We all collectively have to object to this madness because this is not justice. This is injustice."
Free David Huerta. Free them ALL.
June 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM
UPDATE: David Huerta has been released from the hospital but remains in custody.
His words: "We all collectively have to object to this madness because this is not justice. This is injustice."
Free David Huerta. Free them ALL.
His words: "We all collectively have to object to this madness because this is not justice. This is injustice."
Free David Huerta. Free them ALL.
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Gardaí and state bodies can help quash misinformation during events like the Carlow shooting - but fake news will continue to spread until social media firms are forced to reckon with the role their platforms play.
Transparency or 'cover-up': Gardaí face Sophie's Choice when tackling fake news online
A new strategy in the wake of the Carlow shooting means more traps may lie in wait in future.
jrnl.ie
June 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Gardaí and state bodies can help quash misinformation during events like the Carlow shooting - but fake news will continue to spread until social media firms are forced to reckon with the role their platforms play.
The public sees this business-lobby-driven move for what it is: an unvarnished assault on low-paid workers.
Considerable opposition to the government's proposed postponement of living wage and additional sick pay entitlements.
April 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The public sees this business-lobby-driven move for what it is: an unvarnished assault on low-paid workers.
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@unitetheunion.bsky.social migrant healthcare assistant members will be compiling a list of recruitment agents whom Irish employers are engaging that are charging the workers massive fees effectively debt bonding them. This practice has to end
April 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
@unitetheunion.bsky.social migrant healthcare assistant members will be compiling a list of recruitment agents whom Irish employers are engaging that are charging the workers massive fees effectively debt bonding them. This practice has to end