Palestinian flags were hung from Connolly Books on Saturday 15 May and a message of solidarity from the Communist Party of Ireland was read out. […]
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Ballymurphy Ten: Justice at last – a victory for the families and the community
The decision of the Coroner Ms Siobhán Keegan to declare that the ten people killed “were entirely innocent of any wrongdoings on the day in question” is a welcome and important victory for the families of those murdered by the British Army in Ballymurphy, Belfast, in 1971. This victory for […]
End the repression in Colombia – solidarity protest
The Communist Party of Ireland held a small, physically-distanced lunch time protest at the Colombian embassy in Dublin on Tuesday 11 May, in solidarity with indigenous communities, trade unionists and the wider working class of Colombia currently suffering from violent state repression. A letter of protest was handed into the […]
Connolly Sunday commemoration at Arbour Hill
The CPI held its annual Connolly Sunday commemoration at Arbour Hill Cemetery on May 9. Flowers were laid in memory of those who gave their lives for Irish freedom, on the 105th anniversary of the execution of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising.
Campaign for an all-Ireland health service
On Tuesday 4 May demonstrations in support of the demand for an all-Ireland public health service took place in Cork, Dublin, Dungannon, Enniskillen, Galway, and Monaghan […]
May Day message of solidarity
The Communist Party of Ireland sends warmest May Day greetings of solidarity to the working people of Ireland. For the Irish working class there is a clear crisis in housing and health. We emphasise the need to build resistance and struggle to demand and secure decent public housing and to […]
Repudiate the Debt
Repudiate the debt – it’s not the people’s debt The CPI launched the Repudiate The Debt campaign in the run-up to the Irish general election in February 2011. This followed the government’s signing of the Memorandum of Understanding, presented by the infamous Troika (IMF, ECB, European Commission), in December 2010. […]
Decades of church and state repression of women
Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland 13 January 2021 The publication of the report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation, cataloguing the horrendous abuse and exploitation handed out to tens of thousands of women over the decades by religious institutions—of both main religious faiths—lays bare the violence […]
Countries must be allowed to produce generic covid vaccines
Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland 28 December 2020 The covid-19 vaccine should be made publicly and freely available to all. Countries should be allowed to produce their own vaccines nationally and begin their vaccination programmes immediately. Never before has the contradiction between private health and public need been so obvious. In […]
Solidarity with the people of Bolivia
Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland 19 October 2020 The exit polls and early counts in the Bolivian election indicate a major victory for the working and indigenous peoples, despite the mass repression, including the murder of many activists, workers and indigenous leaders by the military and fascist forces that […]