The Workers' Party expresses its strong support for the campaign of student nurses and midwives to win equality of treatment from the HSE for final year students who perform the same work as qualified staff as part of their final year "internship" programme. Final year student nurses and midwives are required, as part of [...]
The Workers’ Party have condemned today’s budget as one which has benefitted the better off once again while throwing a few crumbs at workers and the poor with a focus on the general election rather than social justice. Workers’ Party President Michael Donnelly said that for all the hype on the 75% Christmas Bonus for [...]
The Workers' Party in Dublin is to hold a public forum on the housing crisis, Thursday 15th October, 7.30pm, at the Axis Centre, Ballymun. In the midst of an ever worsening housing emergency, the Workers' Party is hosting a public forum for people to come and share their experiences and opinions on the housing crisis. [...]
The Workers’ Party will hold its Ard Fheis / Annual Conference 2015 in Dublin this weekend, gathering at the Communications Workers Union hall, North Circular Road, Dublin 1, on Friday (9th October) and Saturday (10th October). The conference will be attended by over 150 delegates from the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and overseas who [...]
Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has described that the government capital spending plan, which is to be launched today, as a “large brown envelope with a hole at both ends” Cllr. Tynan said that the contents of the plan had already been substantially and strategically leaked in advance and almost all of the proposed spending, [...]
The Workers’ Party has called on the Irish Government to bring to an end its close business and political links with a regime in Saudi Arabia which has condemned a young political activist to death by crucifixion and is a systematic extreme abuser of human rights. Workers’ Party Dublin City Councillor, Éilis Ryan, said: “Recent [...]
The Workers' Party of Ireland has sent the following message of solidarity to the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) with which we have long-standing fraternal relations. Dear Comrades, The Workers' Party of Ireland sends warm comradely greetings and solidarity to the Communist Party of Greece on the eve of the parliamentary elections in Greece [...]
The Workers’ Party has condemned the possibility of a company owned by controversial businessman Denis O’Brien being given a contract to provide temporary housing units for homeless families in Dublin. Following a viewing of the modular housing units, Workers’ Party Dublin City Councillor, Éilis Ryan, said that the proposal to use them as a stop-gap [...]
Workers’ Party representative for Dublin North-West, Jimmy Dignam, has described the legal charges brought against water activists as an “outrage and an affront to democracy”. He commented, “these proceedings are designed to intimidate people into both paying water charges and to dissuade the water movement from exercising its democratic right to protest”. “The arrests and [...]
The Workers’ Party have called for a national housing strategy on a permanent basis to ensure that never again will the citizens of this country have to face the type of housing emergency currently impacting on hundreds of thousands of people. Workers’ Party Meath spokesman Seamus McDonagh said that the current housing crisis was putting [...]