More than 800 sites owned by local authorities and public bodies will be offered to the private market according to the Fine Gael led government. The Workers' Party Rep. Gavin Mendel-Gleason believes this move is financially irresponsible: If a corporation were to dump all of its productive assets, its share holders would replace the board [...]
Cork Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has said that data released by the Central Statistics Office today (Wednesday) shows that what is meant to be a statutory National Minimum Wage is in fact being treated by many employers as a standard rate and that this is particularly the case in relation to young workers. Cllr. [...]
Citizens’ Assembly puts ball in Fine Gael court to legislate for freely available abortion Workers' Party activists including Seamus McDonagh with the party's Repeal the 8th Amendment banner in Dublin last week The Workers’ Party has said that the concluding votes of the Citizens’ Assembly show a clear mandate for freely available access to [...]
The Workers Party has slammed what it says is Fine Gael's decision to delegate women's healthcare to a handful of people. Reacting to this afternoon's announcement that the Citizens' Assembly would not be recommending the repeal of the eighth amendment, Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers Party) said: "What we have here is yet another example [...]
For Northern Ireland the Westminster election on June 8th is not about leaving the European Union nor is it a re-run of the referendum. It is an opportunity to pass judgement on the main parties at Stormont and their failure to form an Executive nearly two months after being elected. Without doubt the major parties [...]
Workers' Party oration marking the 101st anniversary of the 1916 Rising Gemma Weir delivering the Workers' Party Easter oration at Arbour Hill, Dublin. The Easter Rising 1916 was a truly momentous event in the annals of modern Irish history and we rightly celebrate it today. Indeed, it can be said [...]
Dear Comrades, The Workers Party of Ireland extends its solidarity to the Iraqi Communist Party and condemns the vicious and cowardly attack on the headquarters of the district committee of the Iraqi Communist Party in the city of Diwaniyah in southern Iraq. The WPI also condemns the use of firearms on the university campus and [...]
Commenting on developments at the Oireachtas Water Committee, Workers’ Party Cork City Councillor Ted Tynan said: 'The last minute deal by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil to amend the recommendations of the Water Committee report is quite clearly an attempt to leave the door open for the reintroduction of charges in the future. The will [...]
Dublin City Councillors have voted down a Workers' Party proposal that a state company be established in order to build public housing on publicly-owned land. Reacting to the vote, Workers' Party councillor Éilis Ryan said: "At this evening's (Monday) city council meeting, I proposed that, instead of proceeding blindly into another failed PPP scheme, Dublin [...]
The Workers' Party has sent the following message of greetings and solidarity to the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) to mark the opening of the KKE's 20th Congress in Athens today (March 30th) GREETINGS FROM THE WORKERS PARTY OF IRELAND TO THE 20TH CONGRESS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF GREECE (KKE) Communist Party of [...]
