Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland 2 August 2014 The Communist Party of Ireland strongly condemns the imprisonment today of Niall Farrell to serve a two-week sentence in Limerick Prison for a peaceful protest against the continued use of Shannon Airport by the US war machine.      Niall Farrell was standing up […]

Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland 31 July 2014 The 31st of July is the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, which resulted in the slaughter of more than nine million people, with millions more wounded and left physically and emotionally traumatised. It was the first “industrial” […]

Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland – 11 July 2014 The Communist Party of Ireland, commenting on the Government reshuffle, said that it was more akin to a rearranging of the chairs for a better view as the Labour Party’s ship sinks beneath the waves.      The Labour Party will pay […]

Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland 28 May 2014 The Communist Party of Ireland expresses its solidarity with the Communist Party of Ukraine in its struggle against the imperialist coup d’état and in defence of the working class.      In the twenty years since the defeat of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian […]

National Executive Committee, Communist Party of Ireland 12 February 2014 At its first meeting of 2014 the National Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland analysed the economic and political situation in the country and its effect on the people, north and south.       The Irish people, north and south, will […]

15 January 2014 The Communist Party of Ireland condemns the arrest of the Galway peace activist Margaretta D’Arcy, who was arrested today and brought to Limerick Prison to serve a three-month sentence. Ms D’Arcy suffers from Parkinson’s disease and is also being treated for cancer.       She refused to sign an undertaking […]

Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland 15 December 2013 Today the Irish establishment loudly proclaims that this state, and by extension the Irish people, has regained its sovereignty. This is as far from the truth as one can get. The Irish establishment has long since abandoned the little sovereignty […]

Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland 14 November 2013 The Communist Party of Ireland today warned Irish workers not to fall for the latest ruse by the bankrupt political establishment with its announcement that this failed state will leave the “bail-out programme”—which is in fact a restructuring programme—by 15 December […]

20 October 2013 Once again the people in the Republic have been forced to endure an “austerity” budget as the Irish capitalist class, in alliance with the EU, ECB, and IMF, continue to make working people pay for the odious debt, with cuts in social welfare, attacks on the living […]

11 September 2013 Today is the fortieth anniversary of the fascist coup in Chile on 11 September 1973, when the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende was overthrown in a coup that was planned, organised and directed from Washington.      The fascist coup resulted in more than 3,000 dead, 30,000 tortured, tens […]