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Abortion rights in Northern Ireland

Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland 25 February 2018 Members of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women visited Belfast between 10 and 19 September 2016 to investigate the question of abortion rights in Northern Ireland. During this time they met a wide range of politicians, […]

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Fine Gael’s new spin

Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland 22 January 2018 Fine Gael’s new spin on the tired local authority loan scheme lays bare the bankrupt ideology at the core of their response to the housing crisis.      Merely expanding the amount that can be borrowed by low to middle-income families does nothing to […]

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Public welfare second to private greed

Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland 8 January 2018 The continuing crisis in the health service has once again brought into sharp relief a crumbling public health system, with more than five hundred patients now lying on trolleys in dangerous conditions, whether with regard to medical treatment and disease control […]

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Homes, not prison cells

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, […]

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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 […]