Ronan Burtenshaw
| Ronan Burtenshaw Twitter Website (Journalist, editor, political activist) | |
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| Born | December 1989 |
| Interests | Enough is Enough UK |
Ronan Burtenshaw is an Irish writer based in London who, in 2018, became editor of Tribune Magazine, and led its relaunch as part of the Jacobin stable where he had previously worked as Europe editor.
Ronan Burtenshaw's work has also appeared in The Guardian,[1] the Irish Times and many other outlets. He was one of the first English-language journalists on the ground during the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul and has covered numerous international movements.
Activist
Burtenshaw has previously served in a number of political and trade union roles, from the leadership of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions youth section to a national youth representative for the National Union of Journalists, a political advisor in Dáil Éireann, chair of the Greek Solidarity Committee, a member of the board of think tank Transform and co-organiser of the We're Not Leaving campaign against youth unemployment.[2]
Enough is Enough
In August 2022, Ronan Burtenshaw became a Director of the campaign group Enough is Enough UK.[3]
Own words
"Wars are easy to begin and difficult to stop. Escalation takes on a logic of its own, each step from either side changing the calculation of the other. The impossible becomes inevitable. Cold War politicians understood this, ours do not. In a nuclear world, this is very bad news."[4]