Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland 14 Macrch 2018 The housing guidelines issued today (14 March) show clearly that the establishment are unwilling to solve the housing crisis in a manner that is in the people’s interests. All the solutions promoted are based on the needs and the greed of […]

Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland 25 February 2018 Members of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women visited Belfast between 10 and 19 September 2016 to investigate the question of abortion rights in Northern Ireland. During this time they met a wide range of politicians, […]

Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland 22 January 2018 Fine Gael’s new spin on the tired local authority loan scheme lays bare the bankrupt ideology at the core of their response to the housing crisis.      Merely expanding the amount that can be borrowed by low to middle-income families does nothing to […]

Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland 17 January 2018 The public apology by the Garda Síochána to Joanne Hayes is thirty-four years too late. The response to the finding of the remains of a baby on a beach in Co. Kerry exposed the practices and the automatic response of the […]

Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland 8 January 2018 The continuing crisis in the health service has once again brought into sharp relief a crumbling public health system, with more than five hundred patients now lying on trolleys in dangerous conditions, whether with regard to medical treatment and disease control […]

Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland 7 January 2018 While the Irish establishment and its media eulogise Peter Sutherland as a figure the Irish people should all seek to emulate, the truth is lost.      The truth is that he was a willing tool and agent of global monopoly capitalism. The companies […]

Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland 16 December 2017 The Communist Party of Ireland condemns the proposal announced in news reports this morning to house rough sleepers and homeless people in the Training Unit of Mountjoy Prison.      The Mountjoy Training Unit is already being decommissioned, after it was found to be […]

Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland 6 December 2017 According to the Financial Times (Wednesday 6 December), “blocking a Brexit divorce deal is a high stakes game. It is in everyone’s interests to help May keep the show on the road.”      The leaking of the supposed deal regarding the “border issue” between Britain, […]

Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland 31 October 2017 The Communist Party of Ireland expresses its solidarity with the Iarnród Éireann workers who go on strike tomorrow (1 November) in a series of rolling one-day strikes. Railway workers have not had a pay increase for almost ten years, and it […]

National Executive Committee, Communist Party of Ireland 21 October 2017 At the National Executive Committee meeting of the Communist Party of Ireland there was a discussion of the growing housing crisis in the north and south of the country. In particular, the Irish government has failed to address in any serious […]