Statement by the Southern Area Committee, CPI 1 April 2017 At the Southern Area Congress of the CPI today, delegates confirmed their support for the Bus Éireann workers and their colleagues in Irish Rail and Dublin Bus in their struggle to protect pay and conditions and the rural transport network.      The Government’s […]

Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland 26 March 2017 The opinion expressed by the EU commissioner for the environment, Karmenu Vella, that the proposal by Fianna Fáil to impose fines on those wasting water would be insufficient to comply with EU law, and that it would not be in line […]

National Executive Committee, Communist Party of Ireland 11 March 2017 The National Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland, meeting over the weekend of 11 March, evaluated the political challenges facing the people at both the national and the international level at the present time.      The recent elections to the Belfast […]

Statement by Northern Area Committee, Communist Party of Ireland 17 January 2017 The collapse of the Stormont assembly on Monday 16th January leaves the people of Northern Ireland facing regional elections on the 2nd of March this year. The issues that will confront the people will not be about the problems […]

1 January 2017 As we enter a new year, working people should look forward with hope and confidence. Around the country tens of thousands celebrated the Centenary of the 1916 Rising with pride. Despite decades of prolonged assault by the establishment and their pet academia, they have failed to undermine […]

16 December 2016 The Communist Party of Ireland requests that the Citizens’ Assembly give consideration to our views in your discussions on the eighth amendment to Bunreacht na hÉireann, its legal and human consequences, and how we should deal with these.      The Communist Party of Ireland participated in the original campaign […]

National Executive Committee, Communist Party of Ireland 6 December 2016 The National Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland, meeting in early December, discussed current political developments and the nature of the struggle that working people face into as we approach a new year.      The capitalist system is marked by an […]

Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland – 8 November 2016 The Communist Party of Ireland welcomes today’s announcement by Fianna Fáil that they would support the holding of a referendum to put public ownership and control of water in the Constitution of Ireland. This follows from the support announced […]

Communist Party of Ireland 3 October 2016 Reports in the media confirm that the Irish state has paid more than €40 billion (€40,000,000,000) in interest payments on the state’s bank bail-out in the last five years. These interest payments are almost the same as the bank bail-out itself. This confirms what […]

Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland 30 August 2016 The EU commissioner for competition has found that the Irish state gave preferential treatment to Apple over other companies, so that Apple must now pay €13 billion in back tax, plus interest from 2003 to 2014.      This windfall tax should be put […]