Public sector workers have demonstrated their determination to secure a fair settlement through collective industrial action. They subsequently suspended further action to facilitate negotiations, yet the Government has failed to produce a satisfactory offer. The Government’s foot-dragging must be seen in a wider context. The latest CSO national accounts show […]
Statements
Communist Party of Ireland Calls for the ending of the US blockade of Cuba
“The Communist Party of Ireland calls on the Irish Government to support the Cuban government’s resolution at the UN General Assembly calling for the ending of the fraudulent US classification of Cuba as a State Sponsor of Terrorism. The unilateral classification of Cuba as a State Sponsor of Terrorism is […]
Communist Party of Ireland statement on presidential elections in Brazil
Communist Party of Ireland welcomes the reaffirmed position of Brazilian people in rejecting reactionary, racist, anti-worker bolsonarismo. Re-election of President Lula has shown the importance of popular organising and community work in a long and difficult election campaign. Brazilian community in Ireland mobilised in their thousands; our Party members and […]
Communist Party of Ireland Statement on Irish Neutrality
For years now the government and the media establishment have been telling the same lies about the Triple Lock in order to prepare the ground to end Irish neutrality. No matter how many times their talking points are exposed they still cling to them because there are no good reasons […]
Communist Party of Ireland statement on Public Sector strike
The Industrial Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland stands in full solidarity with public service workers striking over pay and declining living standards. The government allowed the previous agreement to expire without obtaining a credible successor and must now make substantive movement. Workers are right to reject any settlement […]
Statement from the Communist Party of Ireland on Drumcree
The Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) salutes the working people of Garvaghy Road and their many supporters. We also acknowledge the courageous stand taken by many within protestant community who stood up and supported the people of Garvaghy Road. The Orange Order does not represent nor speak for all protestants. The unity […]
Do not ignore the root causes of the cost of living crisis!
The cost-of-living crisis has not disappeared and is set to get worse over the coming year. Prices are far above their 2021 level and the next pressure is likely to come again through essentials: energy, food, clothing, transport, heating and housing. These basics are already up multiples of wage increases […]
Public Sector Pay Negotiations
The decision of public sector unions to prepare for and conduct ballots for industrial action is, at this time, necessary. The previous agreement is now up and the Government has failed to engage meaningfully with workers’ unions. Indeed, their rhetoric has attempted to divide workers and pit public sector pay […]
Aer Lingus Job Losses Expose the Cost of Economic Dependence
The Communist Party of Ireland expresses its solidarity with the workers and families affected by the announcement that up to 500 jobs are to be cut at Aer Lingus. The communist party supports trade unions in opposing compulsory redundancies but urges unions to demand nationalisation. These proposed redundancies are not […]
Statement on Aughinish Alumina
Aughinish Alumina exposes the danger of leaving strategic industry in foreign corporate hands. One of the State’s most important industrial assets, central to a variety of downstream supply chains, is controlled outside any Irish democratic economic strategy by a Russian oligarch and is now being made into a plaything of […]