7 April 2009 The budget presented by the Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, is a Dracula budget, designed to suck the blood from workers so as to give a transfusion to bankers, stockbrokers, tax-avoiders, and property speculators. These parasites will all sleep well and will be celebrating the fact that […]

25 March 2009 The decision by the ICTU to go back into talks with the Government has the potential to place the trade union movement in a position where it will become tied to Government policies, in particular to the consequences of the forthcoming budget and all future budgets.      It is […]

22 March 2009 The call by the Labour Party leader Éamonn Gilmore on RTE radio on Sunday morning for the Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, to intervene with the trade union movement to get it to call off the one-day strike on 30 March is yet another example of how out of […]

17 March 2009 The recent armed attacks by republican paramilitary groupings that resulted in the killing of two British soldiers and one member of the PSNI and injury to a number of workers doing their job need to be condemned in the strongest possible terms. This is a retreat into […]

17 March 2009 At its recent meeting the National Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland discussed the deepening economic crisis and the response needed from the labour movement.      The growing economic crisis now being experienced in the Republic is both a crisis of the Irish banking system and a […]

12 February 2009 The economic and financial crisis facing our country is growing and deepening daily and exposing as never before the myths of capitalism. The Government and the political establishment are overseeing the rip-off of €7,000,000,000 from the National Pension Fund to support speculative bankers and developers with the […]

21 January 2009 Yesterday the Government marked the ninetieth anniversary of the first Dáil Éireann. The fact that they could not even organise to book a room on the actual day is of itself symptomatic of the shambolic state of this Government and our country.      The first Dáil proclaimed and asserted […]

17 January 2009 The National Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland, at its first meeting of the new year, called on the labour movement to resist any and all attempts to place the burden of the growing economic crisis on the backs of workers, small businesses, family farmers, […]

30 December 2008 The Communist Party of Ireland sends New Year greetings to fraternal communist and workers’ parties. To the people of Cuba, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of your Revolution, we express our solidarity with your struggle to break the illegal US imperialist blockade. We are certain that all peace-loving […]

15 November 2008 The meeting of the National Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland that took place on 15 November condemned the budget introduced by the Fianna Fáil-dominated Government. It is clear that the Government is attempting to make working people, the poor, the sick and pensioners pay […]