Stormont’s struggles to balance the budget confirms what working class communities already know: the system is not fit for purpose. Public services are being hollowed out before our eyes. Hospital waiting lists are disgracefully long. Schools are cutting provision. Public sector workers are forced to fight for pay that barely keeps pace with inflation. At [...]
Just three companies paid almost 50% of the state's corporation tax in 2024. This increased concentration “raises the uncertainty around future receipts,” according to the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, the state's budgetary watchdog. This overreliance has left the state exposed, while the government continues to prioritise multinational corporate interests over building strong state industries that [...]
The FAI, with the support of the government, must ensure that the men's national team does not fulfil its fixtures against Israel in their upcoming UEFA Nations League campaign. David Gardiner, a St. Patrick’s Athletic supporter and Workers’ Party representative in Palmerstown-Fonthill said: “The FAI should respect the view of the Irish public, as well [...]
The government's plan to abolish the Triple Lock in the coming months has nothing to do with Irish defence, peacekeeping, or sovereignty and everything to do with NATO and EU military alignment, according to Gerry Rooney, Workers’ Party representative for Meath East and former General Secretary of the Permanent Defence Forces Other Ranks Representative Association. [...]
The recent attacks on Venezuela display a long-term imperialist aim of the U.S. to impose its legal jurisdiction globally, an agenda which was successfully fought when there was an attempt to kidnap former Workers’ Party President Seán Garland earlier this century. The actions of the U.S. regime have now moved it far beyond that of [...]
In the early hours of the morning, the imperialist United States finally launched military strikes against Venezuela, bombing the country as well as kidnapping President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, another prominent Venezuela politician. This criminal act of aggression, launched in a surprise attack at 2am, constitutes one of the most barbaric and [...]
Comrades and friends, On behalf of the Ard Comhairle of the Workers’ Party of Ireland, I would like to wish a happy and prosperous 2026 to all working people, particularly to our members, supporters, and friends. As ever, 2025 proved to be a tough year for the working class both at home and abroad. In [...]
It has emerged that Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Fianna Fáil were aware of an issue surrounding Jim Gavin and a former tenant even before he was announced as the party's presidential candidate, following an internal review into their disastrous campaign. The issue concerned Gavin's failure to pay back €3,300 owed to a tenant since 2009, [...]
The recent seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker by the United States, a naked act of imperialist piracy, as well as President Donald Trump's announcement of a blockade on Venezuela, both mark an extremely dangerous escalation in Washington's campaign of imperialist aggression in the Americas. Oil is Venezuela's primary export. By attacking its ability to [...]
It is with deep sadness that the Workers’ Party of Ireland announces the death of our lifelong comrade and friend Mary Garland (née Travers), a party stalwart who gave decades of service to the cause of socialism and republicanism in Ireland. Mary first lived in Parnell Street in Dublin in 1941. Her father was a [...]