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The context within which any electoral or social struggles takes place is critical to an understanding of how the working class understands how or where change can be secured. The ongoing struggle between Irish democratic forces and forces wedded to imperialism is the basic context in which the elections must […]
The 7th of June Local and EU elections showed the continuing strength and stability of bourgeois ideology in Irish society. Despite facing several related crises such as housing & homelessness, a deteriorating health service, increasing levels of poverty, right-wing attacks on migrants, as well as opposition to the government’s policy […]
One of the most insidious aspects of the geopolitical world order is the co-opting of popular struggles to prop up US hegemony. This could not be truer than in the conflict between the shallow liberal feminism of the West and the decolonial and anti-imperial feminism in the global south and […]
In 1946 Syria won its independence in a victorious anti-colonial war that drove out the French forces. The post-colonial government followed a socialist path in pursuing development and self-reliance in the 1950s and 1960s. This was followed by a move away from socialism under Hafez al-Asad, and the full embrace […]
Neutrality Is Our Best Defence. Meet Outside Leinster House At 1pm 20th March
The Communist Party of Ireland condemns the plans by the Irish government to abandon the “Triple Lock” on the deployment of Irish troops outside the state. The government does not have a mandate for this policy, it was not put to the public in a General Election and does not […]
At the time of writing, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is contemplating an invasion of Niger. This comes after that country experienced a military takeover by anti-Western officers. Both France and the United States have military bases in Niger. The US operates the world’s largest drone base […]
Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland on the situation in the Asia-Pacific region 10 August 2022 There are increasing tensions in and around the Asia-Pacific region, particularly resulting from the calculated actions by Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the US House of Representatives, in visiting the Chinese territory of Taiwan. […]
On Wednesday last 18th May. Party comrades took part along within fellow peace activists at the monthly protest organised by the People’s Movement outside Leinster House. They were joined by TDs Mairead Farrell, Thomas Pringle and Rose Conway-Walsh. The next monthly protest will take place at the same venue on […]
The annual James Connolly Commemoration took this afternoon in Dublin at Arbour Hill. The main address was given by Communist Party of Ireland member Barry Murray: “A chomrádaithe, go raibh céad maith agaibh as an churieadh labhairt ag an comóradhstairiúil seo inniu, ach maith domh mo easpa gaeilge nó is […]