Following reports Higher Education Minister James Lawless is considering reversing the decision to reduce student fees by €1,000, Labour's hit out at Govt and called for the plan to be dropped. The party's Kilkenny Cllr Seán Ó hArgain is a former Deputy President of the Students Union of Ireland ... 

KCLR News: Local Labour Cllr Seán Ó hArgain on plans to reverse college fee reduction (30th June 2025)

Following their Trip episode on Cleaning, the ACFM crew take a closer look at the hidden labour that keeps the economy running. Would public canteens solve 80% of our problems?

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ACFM Microdose: Social Reproduction

pothOles | Bibione EP | Common Labour  | COM-012 | Limited to 199 copies
Release Date : 26.9.2025
Distributed by: Bordello A Parigi @bordellodistro 
Mastered by: Jani at Stylys Music Studios

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Common Labour proudly presents Bibione by pothOles – a sun-kissed tribute to the iconic 80s family camping trips to Italy. Whether you’re swaying to the high-octane ”12-Inch Mix” or lost in the ”Sensual Version”, you can surely feel the salty breeze of the hedonistic Adriatic coast.

And there’s more: we’re so excited to finally unleash the slamming Flabaire remix of This and That. Get ready to hear this on dance floors all summer long – a true masterpiece from the maestro himself. And as the sundowner, we serve up Fyre Fest Anthem – a classic deep house bomb, salty yet sweet, made for the golden hour.

Bibione EP is another cherished 12” from Common Labour – hand-stamped, individually numbered and limited to 199 copies worldwide. A true family affair, it features special artwork created by Aaro.

A1 Bibione (12” Mix)
A2 This And That (Flabaire Remix)
B1 Bibione (Sensual Version)
B2 Fyre Fest Anthem

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pothOles - Bibione EP w/ Flabaire remix--snippets

Labour fought the 2024 general election on a manifesto which promised “a new way of doing government” – one built on the concept of mission-driven government. But how much has this government’s decisions, trade-offs and policy priorities really been shaped by its five missions? And how far have they been able to make progress on their priorities in the first year?

To mark the first year of Keir Starmer becoming prime minister, the Institute for Government and the Institute for Fiscal Studies hosted a joint event to explore what progress the government has made and whether Starmer’s government is really doing things differently to its predecessors.

Are the government’s missions realistic or do they lack ambition? Have Rachel Reeves’ tax and spending choices supported or hindered mission delivery? What did the spending review reveal about the government’s priorities? How could government be better structured – and decisions made – in a way that is more mission-driven? And one year on since the general election, can the government really say it is governing in a “new way”?

To explore these questions and more, the IfG and IFS brought together an expert panel featuring:

Stephen Bush, Associate Editor and columnist at the Financial Times
Helen Miller, Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies
Dr Gemma Tetlow, Chief Economist at the Institute for Government
The event was chaired by Dr Hannah White, Director and CEO of the Institute for Government.

Labour’s first year in power: Is this still a mission-driven government?

Defying the Law: The Air Canada Strike & How Labour Law Restricts Strikes and What Workers Can Do About It, w/ A King and D Camfield
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The historic law-defying strike by Air Canada flight attendants August 16-19 caught the attention of many people in the Canadian state and beyond. In the first part of this episode, David interviews Adam King about the strike and questions it raises. This is followed by a public talk (planned before the flight attendants' strike) David gave in Winnipeg on August 26, presented by the 1919 Workers' Collective, about the history of state restrictions on workers' freedom to strike, their impact, workers' defiance of these restrictions, and what conclusions people who want a powerful working-class movement should draw from this history. The talk was entitled "Against the Law? How Labour Law Restricts Strikes and What Workers Can Do About It."
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Adam King's article on the AC strike: Air Canada Flight Attendants Have Made Labour History
https://www.readthemaple.com/air-canada-flight-attendants-have-made-labour-history
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Article by former flight attendant Ann Hui in the Globe And Mail mentioned in this episode (paywalled): https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-air-canada-flight-attendant-job-experience-labour-unpaid-work/
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Use Promo code "RF15" until Oct. 19, 2025 to receive a 15% discount when ordering David's book, Red Flags, here: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/red-flags

#57: The Air Canada Strike, How Labour Law Restricts Strikes & What Workers Can Do About It

Labour Day song

This episode highlights why Barbados’ new Family Leave legislation is a game-changer for families across the island. Minister of Labour and the Third Sector, Colin Jordan, breaks down how this progressive step strengthens support systems, safeguards workers, and puts families first.

FAMILY MATTERS | PUTTING CHILDREN FIRST | PART 1

Kilkenny city Cllr Seán Ó hArgáin is among those heading to the Labour Think Tank in Tipperary later today and has been telling KCLR News' Edwina Grace what he expects will be discussed ... 

KCLR News: Cllr Seán Ó hArgáin on Labour Think Tank (4th Sept 2025)

This month's conversation is with artist and healer Sārāh Mārtinus. Sārāh Mārtinus (she/they) is a research-informed artist and ancestral lineage healer. Her work focuses on relational kinship & contradiction (non dual, ritual) practice, decentralizing, deconditioning, and decolonizing through process-led co-emergence and intrapsychic ecologies. She writes, paints, and creates sound through centralising darkness, transformation, and intersectional shadow integrations, her multi-media practice operating as a form of processual meaning-making - locating wound within cultures of disappearances.

As descendant of both migrating Sri Lankan diaspora and Irish settling colonies, Sarah came into being on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri People of Woiwurrung language group, in Kulin Nation; the Traditional Custodians of Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Her lineages weave through South Asia & Europe, outwards/inwards, reconciling in rivers of reparation, remembrance

Her work is currently published through 'unbecomings', Zilberman Gallery, Berlin (October, 2025), curated by Misal Adnan Yildiz after their constellating of performance dialogues ‘When one of us remembers who we really are, all of us remember’ at Pickle Bar, Berlin (June, 2025).

Sārāh offers one on one sessions and community ceremony, with ritual and witness counsel for power rebalance.

www.sarahmartinus.com @sarahmartinus

We all sweat as we provide care, as we labour, as we perform our work, as we fuck, as we survive and as we sacrifice one choice for the other. How exactly do we define our work and how does that work entangle and circumscribe our sexual identities, our racialized bodies, our creative lives and the ways in which we provide care? How do we perform both tasks and identities within the framework of that which we consider work? These conversations are a means to speak between intersectionalities by anchoring through our (always, already, and ever pervasive) sexualized and racialized bodies, our working bodies, our artistic bodies and our performative bodies. I hope that they contribute to dialogues which normalize sex work as work, and all work as deserving of respect, healthy conditions, and a living wage.

You can find out more https://www.alfabus.us/s-w-e-a-t/

Mad Kate (they/them) is an electronic producer, sound designer, performance artist and writer who began working the Berlin performance and club scene in 2004, expanding their unique identity-queering, genderfcking and sexpositive performative work throughout music, theatre and film. Their explorations of borders between/within bodies, audibility, consent, proximity, and touch as political practice have brought them to theaters, communes, technomansions, prisons, dungeons, squats and galleries around the world.

Cover Photo: Mathilda Bernmark



S4E9 S.W.E.A.T. with Sārāh Mārtinus

This week, Rob Mansell, Portfolio Manager, talks to Luke Pearce, Senior Multi-Asset Strategist, about all things emerging markets (EM). Can China’s rally continue? How have investors changed their approach to investing in EM compared to pre-pandemic? And how is the AI theme unfolding across EM?

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#340 Emerging Markets: Room to run?

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Roster of Common Labour:
Cossway, Jori Hulkkonen, Jussi-Pekka, Kask, Yaniel, Mirage Man, Nachtbraker, Flabaire, Phonogenic, Saine, pothOles, Lukas Lyrestam, Powel, Thomas Wood, Sames, Omar Santis, Roberto Rodriguez.

*Not accepting demos at the moment. Thank you for your understanding!*

S.W.E.A.T. >>sex/uality. work. extraction. art. theatr/ics.<< is a series of conversations about performance and performativity of the sexual and sexualized body at work—where work is broadly defined as the labour of survival, the labour of care, creativity, and capital-A-Art. How exactly do we define our work and how does that work entangle and circumscribe our sexual identities, our creative lives and the ways in which we provide care? How do we perform both tasks and identities within the framework of that which we consider work? My hope is that these conversations are a means to speak between intersectionalities by anchoring through our always already sexualized bodies, our working bodies, our artistic bodies and our performative bodies.

photos by Onsoh Studios and Claudia Brijbag

please support S.W.E.A.T. on my patreon page 
https://www.patreon.com/madkate

S.W.E.A.T. hostex  Mad Kate is a Berlin-based electronic artist, vocalist, and producer who fuses sound, performance, and activism into a singular, immersive experience. Rooted in a background of writing and queer feminist, sex-positive performance art, Mad Kate weaves together interviews, field recordings, and vocal manipulations with raw, pulsating synthesizers to explore the porous borders between bodies, identities, and geographies.

With a sonic language shaped by storytelling and embodied experience, Mad Kate’s compositions interrogate the personal as a lens for understanding collective realities—how power structures inscribe themselves onto intimacy, how movement across borders reshapes identity, and how world-building through imagination disrupts existing narratives. Whether through hypnotic, shape-shifting club compositions or experimental soundscapes, their work pulses with a deep commitment to sonic activism, carving out space for new forms of relationality and resistance.

Mad Kate’s performances are immersive and confrontational, collapsing the boundary between artist and audience, body and machine. Their sonic explorations have been featured in venues and festivals across Europe, where they continue to push the boundaries of electronic music as a site of both political critique and radical pleasure.

Welcome to Word on the Street, a weekly podcast from Barclays Bank where our experts help ordinary investors make sense of the latest news and events impacting the world’s financial markets.

Please note that past performance is not a guarantee of future performance. All investments can fall as well as rise in value and you can lose some or all of your money. Additionally, this podcast does not constitute an investment recommendation.

A podcast from so-called Canada talking socialism from below

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