With Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil having confirmed their candidates for the upcoming presidential election, in Heather Humphreys and Jim Gavin respectively, the onus is now on Sinn Féin to back Catherine Connolly in order to ensure neither government party ends up in the Áras. Fine Gael’s candidate Heather Humphreys, a member of cabinet for [...]
Following the August meeting of the Ard Comhairle, the Workers’ Party is endorsing Catherine Connolly in the 2025 presidential election, which is set to take place on Friday, 24th October. Though limited in its powers, the role of the president remains an important one. As Michael D. Higgins has shown in recent years, it offers [...]
The Workers’ Party has been engaged in various activities on the international front in recent months, engaging with like-minded parties and organisations in order to build a better world. Here’s a round-up of what we’ve got up to in the first half of the year. 2nd International Anti-Fascist Forum Productive meetings were held with representatives [...]
Kneejerk responses to the violence which marred the visit of Bohemians to Derry City for their recent League of Ireland fixture only serves to ratchet up tensions, while allowing the PSNI and footballing authorities to escape their culpability for the disorder, says Garrett Greene, Workers' Party representative in Cabra-Glasnevin. Greene said: “The disturbing scenes from [...]
A video from private property developer Ballymore showing plans to redevelop Dublin’s Sheriff Street and the surrounding area has sparked controversy, as working class people rightly fear the impact that prioritising the private market over people could have on their community, including the demolition of their homes to make way for office blocks and student [...]
Garrett Greene, Workers’ Party representative in Dublin Central, has expressed deep sadness at the death yesterday of Brother Kevin Crowley of the Capuchin Day Centre in Dublin’s Bow Street. Greene said: “Brother Kevin spent over half a century running the Day Centre providing morning and midday meals to hundreds of people every day. He deserves [...]
The BBC’s failure to broadcast Irish-language rap trio Kneecap’s landmark set at Glastonbury has sparked outrage. In choosing not to stream one of the festival’s most politically significant performances, the BBC has effectively silenced a powerful voice for resistance and solidarity. Kneecap’s art is satirical, symbolic, and unapologetically political, rooted in the lived experience of [...]
The Workers’ Party condemns the United States’ bombing of Iran, as well as Israeli attacks on Iran that began earlier this month. This latest development is yet another dangerous escalation by the United States and NATO in their ongoing campaign of expansion against those who resist their influence, from Russia to Palestine and now further [...]
Israel's interception and boarding of the Madleen, a ship sailing with humanitarian aid for Palestine as part of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, as well as the capturing of those on board, is not only a vindictive act, but also a grossly illegal one, according to Workers’ Party representative David Gardiner. Gardiner said: “The whole world [...]
Newstalk has reported that 300 people queued, some overnight, for just 38 houses priced at up to €500,000 in Seven Mills in Clondalkin. With scenes like this now the norm in Dublin, it is abundantly clear that the private market cannot fix the housing crisis, and that the mass construction of public housing must be [...]