The Workers’ Party have called for Dublin City Council to acquire through a Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) five purpose-built student complexes and use these buildings to provide public student accommodation. Operating under the brand Uninest, the five facilities were recently granted a change-of-use application by DCC to let 1,600 student accommodation beds until May 31st [...]
Dublin Central Workers' Party representative Éilis Ryan has described the government decision not to pay student nurses as "despicable. "Ryan said:"The decision by the government not to pay student nurses shows the true level of contempt that they hold frontline workers in. She continued: "In the midst of a pandemic, these student nurses, like all [...]
Workers Party representative for Dublin Central, Éilis Ryan, has blasted the Government’s response to this week’s RTE Investigates programme, which shed light on the scandalous overcrowded conditions in Dublin’s private rental sector. Ryan is calling for meaningful action on the issue that would see private landlords who profit from overcrowding in their properties assume responsibility. [...]
Eoghan Gardiner, Secretary of Workers' Party Youth, has reacted to the decision taken by the government to vote against paying student nurses. Gardiner said: "The fact that the government has voted against paying student nurses, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, shows how little they value workers, students and our families." "They'll happily sing [...]
A Workers' Party representative has reacted to a report from the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) highlighting issues in meat processing plants. The report concerningly highlights "staff working face to face, ill-fitted specialist masks and tightly spaced locker rooms" David Gardiner, Workers' Party representative in Palmerstown-Fonthill and Dublin Mid-West said: "Although the report redacts the [...]
The Workers’ Party have strongly condemned last night’s decision by the British Government to reject a public inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane. Speaking on the subject, Workers’ Party representative for North Belfast Chris Bailie said ‘It is clear that this decision has been taken to avoid uncovering the scale of British state collusion [...]
The Slovakian parliament has recently passed an anti-communist amendment which was put forward by their right-wing conservative coalition government. The amendment declares the Czechoslovak Communist Party and the now Communist Party of Slovakia as ‘criminal and reprehensible organisations’. This is an addition to the 1996 anti-communist law already in place declaring the ‘immorality and illegality [...]
Dear Comrades, The Workers' Party of Ireland sends its fraternal greetings to the Portuguese Communist Party on the occasion of your XXIst Congress. The PCP occupies a critical place in the resistance to capitalism and the development of a working class alternative guided by Marxist theory. Given the common pressures arising from modern capitalism and [...]
The Workers’ Party is calling on An Bord Pleanála to overturn a change-of-use permission to facilitate co-living recently granted to corporate landlord Uninest, following the decision taken by the Housing Minister to restrict future co-living applications. Operating under the brand Uninest, the five facilities were recently granted a change-of-use application by DCC to let 1,600 [...]
The Workers’ Party of Ireland wishes to express its solidarity with the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE) in light of the repression by the Greek state of its 47th annual commemoration of the uprising against the US backed dictatorship. The uprising constituted a pivotal moment in modern European [...]