17 October 2011 The decision by Pat Rabbitte, Minister for Communications, Energy, and Natural Resources, to issue thirteen new exploration licences for oil and gas in Irish territorial waters is nothing more than the complete abandonment by this state of any control of these resources that belong to the Irish […]

8 October 2011 The National Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland, meeting on 8 October, confirmed its solidarity with the people of Greece at this time and in particular with its working class. The Greek working class is in the front line of resistance to the policies of […]

8 October 2011 The National Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland met on 8 October to discuss and evaluate the political and economic conditions in the country.      The economic crisis of the system continues to inflect great damage and hardship on the people, north and south. Poverty and unemployment […]

30 August 2011 The National Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland at its regular meeting discussed the present political and economic situation in the country, evaluating the effects of the deepening crisis of monopoly capitalism and its increasing impact on working people, north and south.      In the South the […]

28 August 2011 The Communist Party of Ireland expresses its solidarity with the Libyan people now facing into a future of occupation, dominated and controlled by imperialism—by the United States and Britain, France, and other EU powers.      The imperialist powers acted early to forestall any development of democracy in Libya. They […]

19 August 2011 The much-heralded recovery from the 2007–08 economic crisis has proved short-lived, and the policies pursued by the Obama administration of “quantitative easing” and the European Union’s continuing attempts to prop up a collapsing financial system have been shown not to provide any long-term solution. The Irish Government […]

Joint statement by the Communist Party of Ireland and the Connolly Youth Movement  The Communist Party of Ireland and the Connolly Youth Movement wish to express their solidarity with the family, friends and comrades of the victims of the massacre that took the lives of ninety-one people in Norway on […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]