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SOLIDARITY WITH THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF TURKEY

From:       Workers Party of Ireland To:          The Central Committee, Communist Party of Turkey   30th March 2019 Dear Comrades, The Workers Party of Ireland sends comradely greetings to the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) and extends its best wishes and solidarity to the TKP for the local elections taking place on Sunday, 31st March [...]

April 1st, 2019|Comments Off on SOLIDARITY WITH THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF TURKEY

Discovery of heroin kits raises concern in Cork

Cork City North West Workers’ Party candidate Catherine Coffey has expressed concern after the discovery of a number of both opened and unopend heroin treatment kits across the Northside of the city. Heroin injection kit found on Cork footpath Catherine Coffey said that she had found an unopened heroin treatment  in her own area while [...]

April 1st, 2019|Comments Off on Discovery of heroin kits raises concern in Cork

Workers Party demand Bessboro be treated as crime scene

The Workers’ Party has called on the government to immediately take over the burial grounds of the former Bessboro Mother & Baby home in Blackrock on the Southside of Cork city. Workers’ Party Cork Councillor Ted Tynan said that following the partial demolition of the old building known as Bessboro folly over last weekend on [...]

March 13th, 2019|Comments Off on Workers Party demand Bessboro be treated as crime scene

Workers’ Party call on Zappone and Rabbitte to put pressure on South Dublin County Council to provide proper accommodation for traveller families

David Gardiner, Workers' Party Public Representative in the North Clondalkin area, has called on the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Katherine Zappone and the recently appointed Chairperson of TUSLA, Pat Rabbitte, to pressurise South Dublin County Council into providing proper accommodation for the traveller families living in inhuman conditions on the Scoil Oscar site [...]

February 28th, 2019|Comments Off on Workers’ Party call on Zappone and Rabbitte to put pressure on South Dublin County Council to provide proper accommodation for traveller families

Workers’ Party Euro candidate calls for mandatory MMR scheme, as mumps cases reach six times previous years

Workers’ Party Dublin Euro candidate Cllr. Éilis Ryan has renewed her calls for the state to roll-out a mandatory MMR vaccination scheme for school-going children. The call comes as the HSE revealed today (Wednesday) that mumps cases this year have reached six times as many as the same period last year. Cllr. Ryan said: “There [...]

February 27th, 2019|Comments Off on Workers’ Party Euro candidate calls for mandatory MMR scheme, as mumps cases reach six times previous years

Glanmire recycling fire: Tynan calls for stricter regulation

The Workers’ Party in Cork have expressed serious concern at last night’s (Friday) major fire at a recycling centre near Glanmire which was attended by 11 units of Cork city and county fire brigade. Blazing roof of Greenstar recycling facility, Glanmire. Pic: Cork County Fire Service Councillor Ted Tynan said that there was a very [...]

February 23rd, 2019|Comments Off on Glanmire recycling fire: Tynan calls for stricter regulation

Message from the Sudanese Communist Party

Comrade Fathi Alfadl, member of the Political Bureau of the Sudanese Communist Party and its official spokesman, was released on 14th February 2019 after spending 5 weeks in detention following his arrest by the security forces of the dictatorial regime. He has sent the following message from Khartoum, to all fraternal parties and friendly organizations [...]

February 21st, 2019|Comments Off on Message from the Sudanese Communist Party

Workers’ Party solidarity with the Communist Party of Poland

             Letter of solidarity with the Communist Party of Poland Dear comrades, Congratulations on your recent victory when the regional court in Dąbrowa Górnicza acquitted the members of the editorial board of the Communist Party of Poland magazine “Brzask” and the website of the Communist Party of Poland of charges of “promoting a totalitarian system”. [...]

February 14th, 2019|Comments Off on Workers’ Party solidarity with the Communist Party of Poland

Workers Party welcome rejection of Cork waste facility

Cork Northwest Workers’ Party representative Catherine Coffey has welcomed the decision of Bórd Pleanála to refuse planning permission for a new waste facility at Churchfield. Ms. Coffey said that the rejection of planning at the site was a clear recognition that the site was not suitable for a waste facility and she felt that if [...]

February 13th, 2019|Comments Off on Workers Party welcome rejection of Cork waste facility

Clare Daly TD endorses Cllr Éilis Ryan for European elections in Dublin in May

Workers’ Party to run on a platform of opposing elite attacks on public services and workers’ rights, and radical action against war and climate change    Euro Parliament backing for Trump’s Venezuela ‘coup’ shows need for more anti-war MEPs  Cllr Éilis Ryan this morning (Wednesday) launched her Dublin MEP bid on behalf of the Workers’ Party, [...]

February 13th, 2019|Comments Off on Clare Daly TD endorses Cllr Éilis Ryan for European elections in Dublin in May