Up to 100,000 from every corner of Ireland marched through the streets of Dublin yesterday (29 August) to express their anger at the government over the imposition of water charges and the privatisation agenda. Irish people already pay for their water and through taxes and there has been a huge campaign against the new [...]
The Workers’ Party has dismissed the latest government unemployment figures as coming from “the land of Hocus Pocus” and having little relationship to reality. Workers’ Party spokesman Seamus McDonagh said the figures produced by the Central Statistics Office were based on the most restrictive definition of unemployment possible and did not account for tens of [...]
The Workers Party has condemned the DPPs decision to pursue the prosecution of more than 20 protesters arising from the Jobstown demonstration last November in which Tánaiste Joan Burton’s car was delayed. Workers’ Party spokesman Jimmy Dignam said the decision was a disgrace and could potentially lead to a lifetime criminal record and lengthy jail [...]
The Workers’ Party have welcomed the commencement of work on the new Luas extension in Dublin which will link up the existing Red and Green lines but the party said that the real missing link in the system is the originally planned line to Ballymun and Dublin Airport. Party spokesman Jimmy Dignam said that [...]
The Workers’ Party have described the recommendation of a 50 cent per hour increase in the statutory Minimum Wage by the Low Pay Commission as a gross insult to the many thousands of low paid workers in the state. The party’s Dublin councillor Éilis Ryan said that the Low Pay Commission had lived up to [...]
Workers’ Party councillor Ted Tynan has described Irish Water as the most expensive “white elephant” in the history of the state and has said the company is being kept alive only by massive injections of public money and a government in deep denial. Cllr. Tynan said he did not believe that the payment level of [...]
The Government’s cut to the One Parent Family Payment (OPFP) takes money from the pockets of many one parent families, exacerbating the already severe child poverty crisis. Already, 12% of children in the State are experiencing deprivation and are at risk of poverty. Single parent families are one of the most vulnerable groups in Ireland [...]
The Workers’ Party of Ireland expresses its solidarity with the people of Greece in the struggle against austerity and the humanitarian crisis it has wrought. We condemn the actions of the EU-IMF-ECB Troika and the continuing efforts to bleed the Greek working class dry by transferring wealth from the workers of Greece to pay for [...]
• System of Direct Provision must be dismantled • McMahon report does not go far enough • Lives will continue to be blighted in this unjust system Cllr Eilis Ryan, Workers’ Party Cllr for Dublin's North Inner City, today criticised the recommendations of the McMahon Report on the Protection Process and Direct Provision. The report [...]
Sunday 28th June 2015 Speech given by Gemma Weir Comrades and friends, Once again we have gathered here in Bodenstown, in the graveyard where Theobald Wolfe Tone is buried. For us this is not some ritual or some type of unthinking glorification of the past or deification of heroes. For us this is a meaningful [...]