Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland 16 December 2017 The Communist Party of Ireland condemns the proposal announced in news reports this morning to house rough sleepers and homeless people in the Training Unit of Mountjoy Prison. The Mountjoy Training Unit is already being decommissioned, after it was found to be […]
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Ruling by fooling
Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland 6 December 2017 According to the Financial Times (Wednesday 6 December), “blocking a Brexit divorce deal is a high stakes game. It is in everyone’s interests to help May keep the show on the road.” The leaking of the supposed deal regarding the “border issue” between Britain, […]
Solidarity with the railway workers
Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland 31 October 2017 The Communist Party of Ireland expresses its solidarity with the Iarnród Éireann workers who go on strike tomorrow (1 November) in a series of rolling one-day strikes. Railway workers have not had a pay increase for almost ten years, and it […]
Political statement
National Executive Committee, Communist Party of Ireland 21 October 2017 At the National Executive Committee meeting of the Communist Party of Ireland there was a discussion of the growing housing crisis in the north and south of the country. In particular, the Irish government has failed to address in any serious […]
Solidarity with the working people of Venezuela
Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland 1 August 2017 The Communist Party of Ireland expresses its solidarity with the working people of Venezuela and congratulates them on holding successful elections and on the positive outcome of the election of the Constituent Assembly, despite widespread violence and intimidation by the right-wing […]
International declaration
The Communist, Workers’ and Revolutionary Parties below signed, on the occasion of our participation in the XV Congress of the Communist Party of Venezuela, held in the homeland of Bolívar and Chávez: MANIFEST our solidarity with the people of Venezuela, the Bolivarian process of the affirmation of sovereignty and social […]
The terrorist attacks in London
Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland 4 June 2017 We condemn the attack in London last night, and our sympathies are with those killed and injured and with their families and friends. To end the attacks on innocent civilians, in London, Manchester, or Paris, the first step is to end the […]
Water charges: Working people need to be vigilant
Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland 12 April 2017 The Communist Party of Ireland stated on the 6th of April that working people need to be vigilant regarding the current Government’s manoeuvring in relation to water charges. We stated that the Government and the European Union would take time to […]
The attack on bus workers and rural communities continues
Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland 11 April 2017 The talks at the Workplace Relations Commission between the unions and management in Bus Éireann have broken down, and the dispute has now been referred to the Labour Court. The company was not in a position to put forward a proposal, […]
Continue to push for an end to water charges
Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland 6 April 2017 The Communist Party of Ireland calls on working people to continue to mobilise and push for the full abolition of water charges and for a referendum to put the people’s ownership of all water resources into the Constitution of Ireland. It has […]