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 […]
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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 […]
Solidarity with Nicaragua
On behalf of the CPI, the general secretary, Eugene McCartan, made a statement of solidarity on the occasion of the 41st anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution.
Solidarity with Cuban women
The National Women’s Committee of the CPI, on behalf of the women members of the Communist Party of Ireland and the Connolly Youth Movement, has written to the Communist Party of Cuba and the Federation of Cuban Women to express their solidarity with their sisters and comrades on the anniversary […]
Dublin activists are out!
Since early August (weather and quarantine permitting) members of the Dublin Branch of the CPI have been operating bookstalls in the city for the sale of party publications and giving out information about the party.
The covid-19 pandemic and its impact on women
Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland 11 June 2020 Amidst all the health problems and upheaval that are taking place resulting from the covid-19 pandemic, the Communist Party of Ireland points out that it is easy to overlook the specific distress that thousands of women are suffering in their own […]
New “Programme for Government”: a new three-party government with the same old policies
National Executive Committee 11 June 2020 The formation of the three-party coalition government in Dublin, and their agreement on a “programme for government,” is a case of more of the same—a continuation of the same old polices that favour the rich and powerful, policies that are pro-business and full of pious […]
75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi fascism
5 May 2020 In the name of freedom, peace, and truth —Against fascism and war The victory over Nazi fascism in the Second World War is a major event in history, the memory of which must be preserved and defended in the face of repeated attempts at historical falsification aimed at […]