6 May 2010 Yesterday in Athens tens of thousands of Greek workers took part in another general strike against the austerity measures being imposed by the Greek government at the behest of the European Union. Throughout Greece millions of workers took part in the general strike to show their opposition […]
Author: jamescallaghan
To the members of the so-called “Group for the Reconciliation of European Histories” in the EU Parliament
Open letter from the Press Bureau of the Communist Party of Greece 15 April 2010 To the thirteen MEPs of the so-called “Group for the Reconciliation of European Histories” Sirs, We condemn your action in proceeding with the formation of a “Group for the Reconciliation of European Histories”— • because we regard your […]
Political statement
22 March 2010 The National Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland at its regular meeting welcomed the devolution of policing and justice powers to the Northern Ireland Executive. The CPI acknowledges that this is an important step forward while rejecting the lack of transparency and political exclusion in […]
International Women’s Day, 2010
8 March 2010 The Communist Party of Ireland sends greetings of solidarity this year in which we celebrate one hundred years of International Women’s Day. The call to establish a day of international solidarity with and between women was made at the Second International Women’s Socialist Conference in Copenhagen in 1910, […]
Solidarity with the Greek working class
18 February 2010 The Communist Party of Ireland and the Communist Party of Britain express our solidarity with the Greek working class, PAME (the All-Workers Militant Front) and the Communist Party of Greece in their struggle to defend the social and economic gains of Greek workers. The Greek working class in […]
Trade union leaders’ salaries
24 October 2009 Over the years the Communist Party of Ireland has pointed out the dangers inherent in the salaries of leading trade union officers getting so far ahead of the members that they could become a stick with which to beat the whole movement. The mass media have now […]
More EU interference
25 September 2009 Democratic forces in Ireland have had to face many challenges since the Government, in collusion with the EU Commission and other EU governments, decided to force a re-run of the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. Not alone are all the establishment parties receiving huge sums of money […]
Pat Cox is not an outsider: he is central to the establishment
21 August 2009 The Communist Party of Ireland today called on Pat Cox to come clean on his relationship with powerful corporate interests on whose behalf he lobbies at the EU level. It is farcical that he continues to present himself as an outsider and above the fray, as some […]
A failed strategy by a bankrupt Government and a failed system
7 August 2009 The growing ranks of the unemployed are clear testimony to the failure of this Government and its economic strategy. Their only hope is that they can once again get the emigration boats and planes going to disperse the growing surplus population to the four corners of the […]
Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland on the Thomas Cook dispute
4 August 2009 The Communist Party of Ireland condemns the arrest and detention of about twenty former employees of Thomas Cook Ltd, along with a number of officials of their union, the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association, in a dawn raid raid on the premises that the workers had been occupying […]