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Death of Margot Honecker

The Workers Party of Ireland has learned of the death of Margot Honecker, communist, political activist and widow of former GDR leader, Erich Honecker, who passed away in Chile at the age of 89. Margot Honecker (1927-2016) Ms Honecker was a prominent member of the Socialist Unity Party (SED) and served as education [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:47+00:00May 9th, 2016|

Workers’ Party publishes costed proposal for cross-subsidised public housing

Fr. Peter McVerry welcomes ‘Solidarity Housing’ as important contribution to thinking on housing ‘Solidarity Housing’ model would expand public housing provision at reduced cost to State Proposals form viable state-led alternative to Housing Land Initiative The Workers’ Party today (Monday May 9th) published Solidarity Housing: Getting the vultures out of Irish Housing, a costed proposal [...]

2016-05-09T09:37:02+00:00May 8th, 2016|

WP receive message of solidarity from CP of Greece (KKE)

 The Communist Party of Greece has sent the following message. To the Workers Party of Ireland   Dear comrades, The KKE expresses its solidarity with and full support to the Workers Party of Ireland (WPI) regarding the assembly elections in Northern Ireland, which will be held on the 5th of May. The WPI is participating [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:47+00:00May 6th, 2016|

Workers’ Party call on government-bound TDs to take a stand on TTIP

Cllr. Éilis Ryan The Workers’ Party has called on those independent TDs currently contemplating doing a deal to return Enda Kenny and Fine Gael to government to make an issue of the  the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and demand an end to the secrecy surrounding the subject. Workers’ Party Dublin Central Councillor [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:47+00:00May 4th, 2016|

Cancer report shows damning income based healthcare bias

The Workers’ Party have said that a new report by the Irish Cancer Society into waiting times for people requiring urgent medical investigation or treatment into potentially life-threatening cancers is a damning indictment of Ireland’s class and income based health care system. Cork Workers’ Party councillor Ted Tynan said that the report clearly showed a [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:48+00:00April 26th, 2016|

JobBridge encourages low-pay and “battery hen” working conditions

The Workers Party has flatly rejected claims by the Department of Social Protection that criticism of the JobBridge internship scheme is unfounded. Low paid and exploitation encouraged by JobBridge Dublin North West Workers’ Party representative Jimmy Dignam said that far from being an unbalanced or unfounded representation of the extent of exploitation under [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:48+00:00April 25th, 2016|

Solidarity statement with Lebanese Communist Party on 11th Congress

The Workers Party of Ireland sends warm greetings to the Lebanese Communist Party on the occasion of its 11th Party Congress which is taking place under the slogan “Towards a Democratic, Secular and Resistant State”. These are difficult and dangerous times for Lebanon and the entire region. The WPI supports the LCP in its struggle [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:48+00:00April 25th, 2016|

Cllr. Ted Tynan condemns racist attack and calls for restoration of Community Garda service

Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has strongly condemned last Monday night’s vicious attack against a Polish family in Mayfield, saying racist attacks are completely unacceptable in any area. Cllr. Tynan, who has spoken to many local residents on a number of occasions since Monday, described the attack as despicable and has called for the restoration and [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:48+00:00April 14th, 2016|

Flooding report shows the shocking cost of inaction on climate change

Cllr. Ted Tynan Ted Tynan, Workers' Party councillor in Cork city, said; “If the Office of Public Works had produced the 300 maps that were due in March 2014 instead of the 50 that were produced, could homes destroyed in the subsequent floods have been protected? And in the 73 months from February [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:48+00:00April 6th, 2016|

Anne Finnegan responds to Justine McCarthy’s revisionism

The following letter from Anne Finnegan, Chair of the Workers' Party in Dublin Mid-West is the full version of edited letter carried in today's Sunday Times (3rd April 2016) in response to article on 1916 Rising by Justine McCarthy in previous issue. Dear Sir, Anne Finnegan Is Justine McCarthy serious? She states (Sunday [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:49+00:00April 3rd, 2016|