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Political statement

11 April 2011 At its regular meeting the National Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland assessed the political situation in the country following the general election and the election of a new Government in the Republic and the forthcoming elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly. In addition it […]

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Press statement

4 March 2011 At a press conference to launch a pamphlet calling for repudiation of the debt, the general secretary of the Communist Party of Ireland, Eugene McCartan, stated that people must be allowed to have a vote on this central question. It is not that we can’t pay but that […]

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Anti-communism step-by-step

Statement by the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia The present Czech right-wing government coalition is continuously increasing the pressure on the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia. Demands have been heard all around—from individual senators, members of parliament, and members of the government—to suspend the activities of the party […]

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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 […]