The Communist Party of Greece has sent the following message. To the Workers Party of Ireland Dear comrades, The KKE expresses its solidarity with and full support to the Workers Party of Ireland (WPI) regarding the assembly elections in Northern Ireland, which will be held on the 5th of May. The WPI is participating [...]
Cllr. Éilis Ryan The Workers’ Party has called on those independent TDs currently contemplating doing a deal to return Enda Kenny and Fine Gael to government to make an issue of the the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and demand an end to the secrecy surrounding the subject. Workers’ Party Dublin Central Councillor [...]
The Workers’ Party have said that a new report by the Irish Cancer Society into waiting times for people requiring urgent medical investigation or treatment into potentially life-threatening cancers is a damning indictment of Ireland’s class and income based health care system. Cork Workers’ Party councillor Ted Tynan said that the report clearly showed a [...]
The Workers Party has flatly rejected claims by the Department of Social Protection that criticism of the JobBridge internship scheme is unfounded. Low paid and exploitation encouraged by JobBridge Dublin North West Workers’ Party representative Jimmy Dignam said that far from being an unbalanced or unfounded representation of the extent of exploitation under [...]
The Workers Party of Ireland sends warm greetings to the Lebanese Communist Party on the occasion of its 11th Party Congress which is taking place under the slogan “Towards a Democratic, Secular and Resistant State”. These are difficult and dangerous times for Lebanon and the entire region. The WPI supports the LCP in its struggle [...]
Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has strongly condemned last Monday night’s vicious attack against a Polish family in Mayfield, saying racist attacks are completely unacceptable in any area. Cllr. Tynan, who has spoken to many local residents on a number of occasions since Monday, described the attack as despicable and has called for the restoration and [...]
Cllr. Ted Tynan Ted Tynan, Workers' Party councillor in Cork city, said; “If the Office of Public Works had produced the 300 maps that were due in March 2014 instead of the 50 that were produced, could homes destroyed in the subsequent floods have been protected? And in the 73 months from February [...]
The following letter from Anne Finnegan, Chair of the Workers' Party in Dublin Mid-West is the full version of edited letter carried in today's Sunday Times (3rd April 2016) in response to article on 1916 Rising by Justine McCarthy in previous issue. Dear Sir, Anne Finnegan Is Justine McCarthy serious? She states (Sunday [...]
Cllr. Ted Tynan The Workers’ Party has concurred with outgoing Housing Minister Alan Kelly’s admission that the absolute right to private property in the constitution is a barrier to the rights of tenants but the party has said the clause in no way prevented the state from engaging in a massive social housing [...]
In light of yesterday's announcement that TXFM is set to stop airing, the Workers' Party has called on the State's broadcaster, RTÉ, to take over the license. Jimmy Dignam, Workers' Party Dublin North-West representative, stated: “As with all forms of art and music, it is essential that diversity is provided across the spectrum. TXFM, and [...]