Budget 2026 is an unambitious statement of intent: a commitment to keep doing business as usual. It will provide for the capitalist class while leaving working people behind yet again. Far from being bold or transformative, it is a shrug of the shoulders from a government content with failing everyone except a wealthy few. Although [...]
The following address was delivered by Michael McCorry, President of the Workers’ Party, at the close of our 2025 Ard Fheis on Saturday, 4th October in Wynn's Hotel, Abbey Street, Dublin. A chairde, Comrades, I want to begin by thanking you all for attending this year’s Ard Fheis. I extend my deepest thanks to every [...]
Recently, Nepal’s government was toppled after protests branded abroad as “spontaneous youth movements.” In reality, foreign powers had prepared for years to channel popular anger into a campaign punishing a government that signed Belt and Road cooperation agreements with China. This shows the modern “Colour Revolution” model: outside actors cannot manufacture unrest from thin air, [...]
The following oration was delivered by party president Michael McCorry at the Workers' Party's 2025 Wolfe Tone commemoration in Bodenstown, Co. Kildare. Comrades and friends, We gather here today at Bodenstown, at the grave of Theobald Wolfe Tone, not only to honour the past, but to renew our commitment to the unfinished work of the [...]
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 [...]