Policy – Page 21 – The Workers' Party of Ireland

Statement of the International Section of the Workers Party of Ireland on the decision of Trinity College Dublin to award an honorary degree to Hillary Clinton

The Workers Party of Ireland condemns the decision of Trinity College Dublin to award an honorary degree to former US Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, on 22nd June 2018. It is shameful that an Irish educational institution seeks to associate itself with a US politician of deeply reactionary views and hawkish pro-imperialist positions. At [...]

June 22nd, 2018|Comments Off

Government is indifferent to suffering of those on hospital waiting lists

Dick Roche, Workers’ Party representative in Waterford has accused the government of being completely indifferent to those on public hospital waiting list. Dick Roche Mr. Roche was speaking as it emerged that the number of people on hospital waiting lists had reached some 707,000 people, the highest ever recorded and representing more than [...]

June 14th, 2018|Comments Off

LloydsPharmacy strike leads to calls for radical changes to 1990 Industrial Relations Act

The Workers’ Party have said it is an indictment of Ireland’s labour legislation that LloydsPharmacy workers have to go out on strike for sick pay and a basic hourly contract. Speaking before visiting striking workers in the company’s Stoneybatter chemist, Cllr. Ryan said: “Most people’s reaction to the core demands of LloydsPharmacy workers, is astonishment [...]

June 14th, 2018|Comments Off

Cork Incinerator draws planning process into disrepute, skewed against ordinary people

Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has called for a “root and branch” overhaul of the planning process in the wake of An Bórd Pleanála’s decision to grant planning permission to Indaver for a major waste incinerator at Ringaskidy, Co. Cork. Graphic showing the plume of air pollution blown by the prevailing wind (2015 study) [...]

June 11th, 2018|Comments Off

Ireland should advocate independent investigation into shooting of Palestinian medic

Dublin paramedic calls for expulsion of Israeli ambassador, in solidarity with the murdered medic The Workers' Party have reiterated their call for the Israeli ambassador to be expelled from the country, in the wake of the shooting dead of 21-year old Palestinian medical volunteer, Razan al-Najar. The Party's representative in Palmerstown-Lucan, David Gardiner, who is [...]

June 3rd, 2018|Comments Off

Statement by the International Secretary of the Workers Party of Ireland on Venezuela

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 [...]

June 2nd, 2018|Comments Off

FOI reveals cancelation of Literary Festival event ‘The Question of the 8th’ based on wrong information

A Freedom on Information request by Workers’ Party City Councillor, Eilis Ryan, has revealed that the controversial decision by Dublin City Council to cancel an event about the book "The Question of the 8th" at the recent Dublin International Literary Festival, was based on inaccurate information concerning its organisers. Email correspondence released to Ryan reveals [...]

June 1st, 2018|Comments Off

Workers’ Party welcomes huge Yes vote in Meath, calls for abortion to be provided at no cost to women

Workers’ Party representative in Meath, Séamus McDonagh, has welcomed the large yes vote in favour of the repeal of the 8th amendment. Speaking following the referendum, McDonagh said: "This referendum was a resounding victory for women's equality, nowhere less than in Meath. 69% voted in favour of ending Ireland's medieval ban on abortion in Meath [...]

May 31st, 2018|Comments Off

Workers’ Party calls for any agri-industry job vacancies to be opened up to undocumented migrants and asylum seekers.

Gavin Mendel-Gleason The Workers’ Party has criticized a recent announcement by government to seek 800 non-EU workers to take up work permits in the agri-food sector. The Party has called for any job vacancies in the industry to instead be opened up to undocumented migrants and asylum seekers in Ireland. Workers’ Party representative [...]

May 31st, 2018|Comments Off

The statement on the dangerous consequences of the US withdrawal from JCPoA agreement for world peace – 20 May 2018, Athens

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 [...]

May 30th, 2018|Comments Off