The Coronavirus pandemic is revealing that capitalism is incompatible with public health. In Ireland and the UK, right wing governments are now implementing measures which only a few months ago would have been dismissed as the idealistic and unaffordable dreams of socialists. But now, the public health emergency of COVID-19 is making socialism the only [...]
On Sunday, 20th May 2018, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, supported by the Communist Party of Venezuela, was re-elected to office. Despite winning all bar two of the many elections and referenda in the course of recent history, President Hugo Chavez and President Nicolas Maduro and the entire Bolivarian revolution have faced relentless US hostility and [...]
We, the undersigned Communist and Workers parties condemn the decision of the Trump administration – in complete contravention of world public opinion – in taking the USA out of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPoA) agreement with Iran, and the dangerous consequences this now has. The United States’ withdrawal on 8 May 2018 from [...]
The Workers’ Party participated in a large rally in the centre of Belfast in solidarity with the Palestinian people. The following address was made by Gerry Grainger, Director of International Affairs of the Workers’ Party of Ireland: “Last Monday, as Israel in a deplorable display of triumphalism, celebrated the Trump administration’s opening of the US [...]
‘’ The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it”. 200 years ago, οn May 5th 1818, in the city of Trier of Prussia, the great revolutionary Karl Marx was born. Marx had a decisive contribution to the foundation of the revolutionary worldview of the working class [...]
Cllr. Éilis Ryan The Workers’ Party has called for the compulsory confiscation of assets from orders whose institutions contributed to the abuse of women, children and other vulnerable groups in the last century. Workers’ Party Dublin councillor Éilis Ryan said: “The time has for the kid gloves and niceties has long passed. The [...]
Cllr. Éilis Ryan The National Transport Authority (NTA) has faced accusations of favoring privatisation of transport following its comments yesterday (28/2) that private operators can adequately cover all but one Bus Éireann Expressway routes currently facing closure. Speaking in reaction to the NTA’s comments, Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers’ Party, North Inner City) said: [...]
To accompany Solidarity Housing, the Workers’ Party’s policy for 100% public mixed income housing, the Workers’ Party have launched a proposal for a public housing corporation, to fund and manage the scale of public housing required to tackle the housing crisis. The proposal would enable borrowing within EU rules, to fund long-term, large-scale building of [...]
Cllr. Éilis Ryan The Workers’ Party has this morning launched its public housing finance policy, “Financial Aspects of a Solution to the Irish Housing Crisis”. The launch comes ahead of this afternoon’s city council vote on whether to sell O’Devaney Gardens – a 14 acre site of city council land formerly used for [...]
Jimmy Dignam, Workers' Party representative Dublin North West Workers’ Party Dublin North-West representative, Jimmy Dignam, has stated that DCC’s housing report on Ballymun is just a smokescreen for their ambition to only use the private market to build new homes. Dignam stated: “DCC’s latest report essentially blames Ballymun’s regeneration issues on social housing and [...]