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Political statement

5 February 2011 At its regular meeting in early February the National Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland discussed the deteriorating economic crisis, north and south, while people continue to find the ways and means to resist the onslaught of the state and employers in relation to attacks […]

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Beware of the risen people!

1 February 2011 For decades the peoples of Tunisia, Egypt and the whole of North Africa and the Arab world have borne the brunt of violence and brutal repression and dictatorships. These dictatorships have been backed and sustained by the United States and the European Union.      Workers’ organisations, from their trade […]

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He who pays the piper calls the tune

24 January 2011 The intervention by the EU Commission, in the person of the chief spokesperson for Ollie Rehn, calling for the passing of the Finance Bill is another clear example (if one were needed) of who is calling the shots.      His intervention was timed to influence the outcome of the […]

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Twenty years after the Gulf War

The importance of the struggle for peace, against imperialist exploitation and oppression Statement by thirty-two communist and workers’ partiesJanuary 2011 Twenty years have elapsed since the beginning of the Gulf War. On 17 January 1991 the armed forces of the USA, NATO and its allies unleashed—with the ratification of the […]

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The budget delivered as ordered

7 December 2010 The much-hyped budget has finally been delivered, much of it leaked over the last number of weeks in a sordid orgy by “informed sources” and the serried ranks of commentators and tame academics, vying with each other to present their interpretation of what each and every leak […]

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Chickens coming home to roost

17 November 2010 The Communist Party of Ireland calls upon working people, and in the first place the organisation that claims to represent them, the trade union movement, to resist the policies that both the European Union and the International Monetary Fund are imposing and will impose in the coming […]

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Violent assault on student protest

3 November 2010 The Communist Party of Ireland congratulates the students of Ireland who marched in their thousands, coming from all over the country, to protest against the expected rise in registration fees for third-level colleges in the forthcoming budget.      The party condemns the violence perpetrated by the forces of the […]