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 […]

14 May 2011 The Communist Party of Ireland condemns the preparations being made to welcome the representative of the British monarchy to Ireland.      The purpose of this visit—and it has been said explicitly—is to write “finish” to the centuries-long struggle of the Irish people for national sovereignty and democracy. It is […]

8 May 2011 The stark scenario outlined by Prof. Morgan Kelly is a clear warning that this debt cannot be paid and must not be paid. Yet we still witness a few economists lumbering along under the illusion that it can and must be paid, a circle now confined to […]

24 April 2011 The statement by the former Minister for Finance that the European Central Bank forced this state down the road to what is now the almost complete servitude of the Irish people to the interests of German and French banks marks a new low in the abysmal failure […]

20 April 2011 Once again Colm McCarthy has delivered what the Irish establishment and their EU and IMF masters desired. The proposal to sell off large sections of valuable state companies and assets is yet another example of how bankrupt the political and economic establishment has become and how their […]