22 July 2011 The heads of state and heads of government of the seventeen member-states of the euro zone have once again concluded that the failed policies being imposed on the Irish and Greek peoples must be maintained and even pursued with greater vigour. The EU will now send in […]
Author: jamescallaghan
Build the people’s resistance!
13 July 2011 As the people of Co. Roscommon protest at the closure of the Accident and Emergency Unit at their local hospital it is clear that this will be only the first of many such closures, as the Government and all the establishment parties have given priority to the […]
Sabotage of Irish ship
30 June 2011 The Communist Party of Ireland condemns the sabotage of the Irish ship Saoirse, most probably by agents of the Israeli state, while docked in Turkey preparing for its voyage to break the illegal siege of Gaza. The deliberate cutting of the propeller shaft, which would have broken off while the […]
No welcome for the English monarchy!
14 May 2011 The Communist Party of Ireland condemns the preparations being made to welcome the representative of the British monarchy to Ireland. The purpose of this visit—and it has been said explicitly—is to write “finish” to the centuries-long struggle of the Irish people for national sovereignty and democracy. It is […]
The case for repudiation becomes urgent
8 May 2011 The stark scenario outlined by Prof. Morgan Kelly is a clear warning that this debt cannot be paid and must not be paid. Yet we still witness a few economists lumbering along under the illusion that it can and must be paid, a circle now confined to […]
An absolute betrayal of the aspirations and the sacrifice of 1916
24 April 2011 The statement by the former Minister for Finance that the European Central Bank forced this state down the road to what is now the almost complete servitude of the Irish people to the interests of German and French banks marks a new low in the abysmal failure […]
A bankrupt system politically and economically
20 April 2011 Once again Colm McCarthy has delivered what the Irish establishment and their EU and IMF masters desired. The proposal to sell off large sections of valuable state companies and assets is yet another example of how bankrupt the political and economic establishment has become and how their […]
Political statement
11 April 2011 At its regular meeting the National Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland assessed the political situation in the country following the general election and the election of a new Government in the Republic and the forthcoming elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly. In addition it […]
The EU determines that the Irish people must pay the debt
31 March 2011 Anyone still blinded by euro-spin, or still suffering under the delusion that the European Union is some sort of benign force in the affairs of this state, need only look at the imposition of even greater debt upon the Irish people in order to keep bankrupt Irish […]
Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland on Libya
19 March 2011 The Communist Party of Ireland condemns the savage military onslaught now being unleashed by the United States and its EU and NATO allies against Libya. Events now unfolding in and around Libya have more to do with western governments attempting to reassert control over the region than with […]