The Workers’ Party of Ireland send their solidarity and support to the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) members arrested in Denver, Colorado on bogus felony charges. This is a blatant attempt to silence the PSL given their outspoken stance against the systematic racism in the United States; particularly in the wake of the violent [...]
Workers’ Party Youth has called for a reduction in third-level fees, citing the added financial pressure facing working class families brought on by COVID-19. Eoghan Gardiner, Secretary of Workers’ Party Youth, said: “Leaving aside for the moment the fact that third-level fees should be abolished in their own right, due to COVID-19, students are likely [...]
The Workers' Party condemns the anti-mask and anti-lockdown protest, organised by elements of the far-right, which took place in Dublin yesterday. In holding the demonstration, the organisers knowingly jeopardised public health in the name of garnering political support. They also invited a group of anti-maskers from the continent, further risking the spread of COVID-19 both [...]
David Gardiner, Workers' Party representative for Palmerstown-Fonthill and Dublin Mid-West, has described a party organised of 80+ people, including TDs and Senators. by the Oireachtas Golf Society as "scandalous" and "typical of the gangsters that run this country." "Elected representatives, attending a party of 80+ people, in open defiance of COVID-19 restrictions, is absolutely scandalous. [...]
The Workers' Party, at its last Ard Fheis, agreed to undertake an investigation into nuclear power as an option for dealing with climate change. To this end, the Ard Comhairle solicited discussion documents putting forward positions and information concerning nuclear power to start discussion within the Party. The first discussion document is now available here: [...]
The difficulties that the leadership of the Workers' Party have had in persuading the Business Committee, based in Northern Ireland, in adhering to basic democratic principles have been ongoing for some time. As well as refusing to circulate membership lists as required they have, before they were themselves issued with a precautionary suspension, attempted to [...]
James Coughlan (Cork North Central) James Coughlan, the Workers’ Party candidate in Cork North Central has accused Fianna Fáil’s Micheál Martin of trying to sell an impossible dream of home ownership to people on the housing waiting lists which would merely make their situations worst by steering them into the arms of banks and vulture [...]
James Coughlan (Cork North Central) James Coughlan said that Fine Gael had clearly given up on getting to grips with the crisis in our public hospitals and he accused the government of forgetting that it was responsible for the treatment of human beings not a theoretical crisis management exercise. James Coughlan, the Workers’ Party by-election [...]
james Coughlan The Workers’ Party have selected James Coughlan as its candidate in the forthcoming Cork North Central by-election. James Coughlan is a general operative employed in the Cleansing Department of Cork City Council. He is an active trade unionist and is Vice-Chairman of the Cork Local Authority Branch of SIPTU. James has lived on [...]
Axed: An Post's Cork Mail Centre at Little Island The Workers’ Party has condemned the decision of An Post to close the Cork Mail Centre at Little Island with the loss of 200 jobs Workers’ Party Cork City councillor Ted Tynan said the closure of the Little Island facility is directly the responsibility of the [...]