31 May 2010 The Communist Party of Ireland offers its deepest sympathy to the families and friends of those murdered on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. To the remaining international humanitarian volunteers on the flotilla we express our admiration for your courage and honour, which is in stark contrast with the […]

22 May 2010 At its regular meeting the National Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland called upon public-sector workers to reject the proposed Croke Park deal as not being in their interests. If adopted, its provisions and impact would not be confined to the public sector but would […]

Joint statement by forty-three communist and workers’ parties On 9 May we commemorate the sixty-fifth anniversary of the victory over Nazi fascism—the most violent and brutal expression of the monopoly domination in a capitalist system in deep crisis—which led humankind to one of the worst catastrophes in its history, with […]

6 May 2010 Yesterday in Athens tens of thousands of Greek workers took part in another general strike against the austerity measures being imposed by the Greek government at the behest of the European Union. Throughout Greece millions of workers took part in the general strike to show their opposition […]

Open letter from the Press Bureau of the Communist Party of Greece 15 April 2010 To the thirteen MEPs of the so-called “Group for the Reconciliation of European Histories”  Sirs,     We condemn your action in proceeding with the formation of a “Group for the Reconciliation of European Histories”— • because we regard your […]

22 March 2010 The National Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland at its regular meeting welcomed the devolution of policing and justice powers to the Northern Ireland Executive. The CPI acknowledges that this is an important step forward while rejecting the lack of transparency and political exclusion in […]

8 March 2010 The Communist Party of Ireland sends greetings of solidarity this year in which we celebrate one hundred years of International Women’s Day.      The call to establish a day of international solidarity with and between women was made at the Second International Women’s Socialist Conference in Copenhagen in 1910, […]

18 February 2010 The Communist Party of Ireland and the Communist Party of Britain express our solidarity with the Greek working class, PAME (the All-Workers Militant Front) and the Communist Party of Greece in their struggle to defend the social and economic gains of Greek workers.      The Greek working class in […]

24 October 2009 Over the years the Communist Party of Ireland has pointed out the dangers inherent in the salaries of leading trade union officers getting so far ahead of the members that they could become a stick with which to beat the whole movement. The mass media have now […]

25 September 2009 Democratic forces in Ireland have had to face many challenges since the Government, in collusion with the EU Commission and other EU governments, decided to force a re-run of the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.      Not alone are all the establishment parties receiving huge sums of money […]