A United Nations report has revealed that the current Covid-19 pandemic is rapidly increasing the number of people who require humanitarian assistance. The report states that extreme poverty has increased dramatically in the past year as a result of the pandemic. A shocking one in 33 people will require aid in order to meet their [...]
A recent report has stated that Germany has guaranteed Israel inclusion in the EU Covid-19 vaccination deal. The commitment was made by both the German Foreign Minister and Health Minster to the Israeli Foreign Minster in what has been coined a ‘continuation of the country’s special relationship’. It is believed that Germany pushed for Israel [...]
The Workers’ Party have called for Dublin City Council to acquire through a Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) five purpose-built student complexes and use these buildings to provide public student accommodation. Operating under the brand Uninest, the five facilities were recently granted a change-of-use application by DCC to let 1,600 student accommodation beds until May 31st [...]
Dublin Central Workers' Party representative Éilis Ryan has described the government decision not to pay student nurses as "despicable. "Ryan said:"The decision by the government not to pay student nurses shows the true level of contempt that they hold frontline workers in. She continued: "In the midst of a pandemic, these student nurses, like all [...]
Workers Party representative for Dublin Central, Éilis Ryan, has blasted the Government’s response to this week’s RTE Investigates programme, which shed light on the scandalous overcrowded conditions in Dublin’s private rental sector. Ryan is calling for meaningful action on the issue that would see private landlords who profit from overcrowding in their properties assume responsibility. [...]
The Workers’ Party have strongly condemned last night’s decision by the British Government to reject a public inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane. Speaking on the subject, Workers’ Party representative for North Belfast Chris Bailie said ‘It is clear that this decision has been taken to avoid uncovering the scale of British state collusion [...]
The Slovakian parliament has recently passed an anti-communist amendment which was put forward by their right-wing conservative coalition government. The amendment declares the Czechoslovak Communist Party and the now Communist Party of Slovakia as ‘criminal and reprehensible organisations’. This is an addition to the 1996 anti-communist law already in place declaring the ‘immorality and illegality [...]
Dear Comrades, The Workers' Party of Ireland sends its fraternal greetings to the Portuguese Communist Party on the occasion of your XXIst Congress. The PCP occupies a critical place in the resistance to capitalism and the development of a working class alternative guided by Marxist theory. Given the common pressures arising from modern capitalism and [...]
The Workers’ Party is calling on An Bord Pleanála to overturn a change-of-use permission to facilitate co-living recently granted to corporate landlord Uninest, following the decision taken by the Housing Minister to restrict future co-living applications. Operating under the brand Uninest, the five facilities were recently granted a change-of-use application by DCC to let 1,600 [...]
Margaret O’Leary who died suddenly yesterday morning (Tuesday 17th November) was a loyal and dedicated member of the Republican Movement and the Workers’ Party for over fifty years. Margaret, born in February 1947, was the second oldest of four children. Her brother Jer was eighteen months older than her, while her brother Denis and sister [...]