Dignam slams Dublin City Council’s report recommending 10% social housing for...
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...
View ArticleSale of O’Devaney Gardens amounts to ‘selling off the family silver’...
Cllr. Éilis Ryan The Workers’ Party has this morning launched its public housing finance policy, “Financial Aspects of a Solution to the Irish Housing Crisis”. The launch comes ahead of this...
View ArticleFinancial Aspects of a Solution to the Irish Housing Crisis
To accompany Solidarity Housing, the Workers’ Party’s policy for 100% public mixed income housing, the Workers’ Party have launched a proposal for a public housing corporation, to fund and manage the...
View ArticleNTA favoritism for private bus operators sparks call for their abolition
Cllr. Éilis Ryan The National Transport Authority (NTA) has faced accusations of favoring privatisation of transport following its comments yesterday (28/2) that private operators can adequately cover...
View ArticleCalls for compulsory confiscation of church assets, schools and hospitals in...
Cllr. Éilis Ryan The Workers’ Party has called for the compulsory confiscation of assets from orders whose institutions contributed to the abuse of women, children and other vulnerable groups in the...
View ArticleStatement of the Initiative of Communist & Workers’ Party on Karl Marx...
‘’ The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it”. 200 years ago, οn May 5th 1818, in the city of Trier of Prussia, the great revolutionary Karl...
View ArticleBelfast solidarity with Palestine
The Workers’ Party participated in a large rally in the centre of Belfast in solidarity with the Palestinian people. The following address was made by Gerry Grainger, Director of International Affairs...
View ArticleThe statement on the dangerous consequences of the US withdrawal from JCPoA...
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...
View ArticleStatement by the International Secretary of the Workers Party of Ireland on...
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...
View ArticleWhat the pandemic tells us about capitalism
The Coronavirus pandemic is revealing that capitalism is incompatible with public health. In Ireland and the UK, right wing governments are now implementing measures which only a few months ago would...
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