Contribution from Lily Kerr, Workers Party Ireland, to Communist Party of Greece (KKE) Seminar, Athens, 10th November 2016 Comrades and Sisters, I bring greetings and solidarity from my comrades and sisters in the Workers Party of Ireland to this important Seminar. We believe that only by sharing our experiences, knowledge [...]
The Workers’ Party will this evening (Monday 15th November) bring a proposal to Dublin City Council’s annual budget meeting that the owners of vacant commercial properties begin paying full commercial rates. Currently, many business owners who leave their properties vacant gain a 50% rebate for their commercial rates in a given year. Speaking ahead of [...]
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 [...]
Cllr. Ted Tynan Workers’ Party councillor Ted Tynan has described as “shameful” the fact that a three and a half year old girl has had to be put on a HSE waiting list before her family can be provided with a special walking aid to help her learn to walk. Cllr. Tynan said [...]
Cllr. Eilis Ryan (2nd from right) supporting ASTI members The Workers’ Party has said that this mornings’ lockout of teachers across the country marks the beginning of the end of the Landsdowne Road Agreement. The statement comes as tens of thousands of teachers arrived to work this morning to find gates locked. [...]
The Workers’ Party has said that the alteration of the terms of the Landsdowne Road Agreement by the government to facilitate a settlement with the Garda unions shows that the agreement is effectively dead in the water. Workers’ Party spokesperson Jimmy Dignam said that the government had been engaged in brinkmanship, first with the ASTI [...]
Delegates to 18th meeting of IMCWP, Hanoi, Vietnam, October 2016 Contribution by the Workers’ Party of Ireland to the 18th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties (Hanoi, October 27-30, 2016) Capitalist Crisis and Imperialist Offensive - Strategy and Tactics of the Communist and Workers’ Parties in the struggle for [...]
Cllr. Éilis Ryan The Workers’ Party have warned that the latest figures which show officially over 1,000 people are homeless in the capital is “only the tip of a deadly iceberg” and that the real homeless figures are much higher. Dublin Workers’ Party Councillor Éilis Ryan said that were it not for the [...]
Minister Bruton’s Disastrous Bullying Tactics Raises his Fitness for Office The Workers’ Party has condemned the provocative and regressive handling by the Minister for Education, Mr. Richard Bruton, of the current teachers’ dispute. The demands of ASTI members stand up to scrutiny as being fair and reasonable. Far from being extreme they simply demand what [...]
WP Meath representative Seamus McDonagh Meath East Workers’ Party representative Seamus McDonagh has said that those on Meath County Council’s housing list wanted to see action in the form of new local authority houses, not to witness a “Punch & Judy” show between Junior Housing Minister Damien English and local councillors. Mr. McDonagh said the [...]