Cllr. Ted Tynan Workers’ Party councillor Ted Tynan has described as “shameful” the fact that a three and a half year old girl has had to be put on a HSE waiting list before her family can be provided with a special walking aid to help her learn to walk. Cllr. Tynan said [...]
The Workers’ Party of Ireland sends greetings to the communist and workers’ parties of the world on the occasion of the 99th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. The October Revolution was a decisive break with the old world order and laid the basis for the political, social and economic liberation of humankind. It [...]
Cllr. Eilis Ryan (2nd from right) supporting ASTI members The Workers’ Party has said that this mornings’ lockout of teachers across the country marks the beginning of the end of the Landsdowne Road Agreement. The statement comes as tens of thousands of teachers arrived to work this morning to find gates locked. [...]
The Workers’ Party has said that the alteration of the terms of the Landsdowne Road Agreement by the government to facilitate a settlement with the Garda unions shows that the agreement is effectively dead in the water. Workers’ Party spokesperson Jimmy Dignam said that the government had been engaged in brinkmanship, first with the ASTI [...]
Delegates to 18th meeting of IMCWP, Hanoi, Vietnam, October 2016 Contribution by the Workers’ Party of Ireland to the 18th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties (Hanoi, October 27-30, 2016) Capitalist Crisis and Imperialist Offensive - Strategy and Tactics of the Communist and Workers’ Parties in the struggle for [...]
Cllr. Éilis Ryan The Workers’ Party have warned that the latest figures which show officially over 1,000 people are homeless in the capital is “only the tip of a deadly iceberg” and that the real homeless figures are much higher. Dublin Workers’ Party Councillor Éilis Ryan said that were it not for the [...]
Minister Bruton’s Disastrous Bullying Tactics Raises his Fitness for Office The Workers’ Party has condemned the provocative and regressive handling by the Minister for Education, Mr. Richard Bruton, of the current teachers’ dispute. The demands of ASTI members stand up to scrutiny as being fair and reasonable. Far from being extreme they simply demand what [...]
WP Meath representative Seamus McDonagh Meath East Workers’ Party representative Seamus McDonagh has said that those on Meath County Council’s housing list wanted to see action in the form of new local authority houses, not to witness a “Punch & Judy” show between Junior Housing Minister Damien English and local councillors. Mr. McDonagh said the [...]
The Workers’ Party have accused the government of hiding behind the Citizen’s Assembly in relation to this week’s AAA/PBP Dáil motion calling for referendum to repeal the 8th amendment. Workers’ Party Councillor Éilis Ryan said that it was clear that the Citizen’s Assembly was merely a mechanism to allow the government to kick fraught issues [...]
The Workers’ Party has condemned the guilty verdict against a Tallaght teenager charged in relation to the alleged false imprisonment of Joan Burton at the 2014 Jobstown protest. Workers’ Party spokesperson Seamus McDonagh described the verdict as vindictive and politically motivated adding that the decision could impose a lifelong stain on the character of a [...]