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Workers’ Party calls on RTÉ to cancel Katie Hopkins Late Late appearance

WP Meath representative Seamus McDonagh Pressure on complaints department must be kept up Workers' Party Meath representative, Séamus McDonagh, has called on RTÉ to reverse its decision to allow racist and classist Katie Hopkins to appear on tonight's Late Late McDonagh stated: “The Workers' Party is calling on RTÉ to pull Katie Hopkins [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:37+00:00November 11th, 2016|

US establishment’s actions of increasing inequality and racial tension that have created the monster of Trumpism.

WP President Michael Donnelly Workers' Party President, Michael Donnelly, has stated that the US establishment only has itself to blame for Donald Trump's presidential victory. The Workers' Party President stated: “Donald Trump has astonishingly managed to pose as an anti-establishment figure at a time when many working-class people are angry at decreasing living [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:38+00:00November 9th, 2016|

Cork three year old with disability put on waiting list for vital walking aid

Cllr. Ted Tynan Workers’ Party councillor Ted Tynan has described as “shameful” the fact that a three and a half year old girl has had to be put on a HSE waiting list before her family can be provided with a special walking aid to help her learn to walk. Cllr. Tynan said [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:38+00:00November 8th, 2016|

Celebration of the 99th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution

The Workers’ Party of Ireland sends greetings to the communist and workers’ parties of the world on the occasion of the 99th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. The October Revolution was a decisive break with the old world order and laid the basis for the political, social and economic liberation of humankind. It [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:38+00:00November 7th, 2016|

Lockout of teachers marks ‘beginning of the end’ of Landsdowne Road Agreement – Workers’ Party

  Cllr. Eilis Ryan (2nd from right) supporting ASTI members The Workers’ Party has said that this mornings’ lockout of teachers across the country marks the beginning of the end of the Landsdowne Road Agreement. The statement comes as tens of thousands of teachers arrived to work this morning to find gates locked. [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:38+00:00November 7th, 2016|

Landsdowne Road deal is dead in the water

The Workers’ Party has said that the alteration of the terms of the Landsdowne Road Agreement by the government to facilitate a settlement with the Garda unions shows that the agreement is effectively dead in the water. Workers’ Party spokesperson Jimmy Dignam said that the government had been engaged in brinkmanship, first with the ASTI [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:38+00:00November 4th, 2016|

Workers’ Party address to meeting of Communist & Workers’ Parties at Hanoi

Delegates to 18th meeting of IMCWP, Hanoi, Vietnam, October 2016   Contribution by the Workers’ Party of Ireland to the 18th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties   (Hanoi, October 27-30, 2016)   Capitalist Crisis and Imperialist Offensive - Strategy and Tactics of the Communist and Workers’ Parties in the struggle for [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:38+00:00November 3rd, 2016|

Dublin homeless figure only the tip of a deadly iceberg

Cllr. Éilis Ryan The Workers’ Party have warned that the latest figures which show officially over 1,000 people are homeless in the capital is “only the tip of a deadly iceberg” and that the real homeless figures are much higher. Dublin Workers’ Party Councillor Éilis Ryan said that were it not for the [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:38+00:00November 2nd, 2016|

Teacher Dispute: Government in breach of Employment Equality Acts

Minister Bruton’s Disastrous Bullying Tactics Raises his Fitness for Office The Workers’ Party has condemned the provocative and regressive handling by the Minister for Education, Mr. Richard Bruton, of the current teachers’ dispute. The demands of ASTI members stand up to scrutiny as being fair and reasonable. Far from being extreme they simply demand what [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:38+00:00October 28th, 2016|

People want action on social housing, not “Punch & Judy show” says McDonagh

WP Meath representative Seamus McDonagh Meath East Workers’ Party representative Seamus McDonagh has said that those on Meath County Council’s housing list wanted to see action in the form of new local authority houses, not to witness a “Punch & Judy” show between Junior Housing Minister Damien English and local councillors. Mr. McDonagh said the [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:39+00:00October 26th, 2016|