The President of the Workers’ Party, Mick Donnelly, has said that the campaign against water charges and privatisation remains as valid as ever and the campaign should continue on the basis of community based activism and non-violent civil disobedience. The campaign was a genuine people’s one with mass support as shown by the [...]
Hundreds of thousands of people in the Republic of Ireland are expected to demonstrate tomorrow in over 100 cities, towns and villages to voice their outright opposition to water charges, water metering and privatisation of the public water supply. Organised by the Right2Water campaign, a coalition of trade union, community and political groups (including the [...]
The Workers’ Party has wholeheartedly welcomed today’s (Tue 28th October) statement by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties in relation to recent racist events in Waterford and the urgent need for comprehensive legislation on hate crime and incitement to hatred. For many years the Workers Party has advocated the implementation of comprehensive legislation on hate [...]
The Workers Party held it's annual Northern Ireland Regional Conference in Belfast on Saturday (25th Oct). In what has been one of the most successful conferences to be held in recent years a broad range of subjects were discussed and lively debate was had which was contributed to by numerous party members and invited [...]
The mass opposition to water charges is being undermined by Sinn Féin politicians constantly changing positions on the campaign, according to Meath Workers' Party representative Seamus McDonagh. “The Sinn Féin position on water charges was changing weekly, now it is changing daily. Only two weeks ago TDs Gerry Adams and Mary Lou McDonald publicly stated [...]
Following the massive national demonstration in Dublin on October 11th in which around 100,000 people took to the streets to voice their outright opposition to water charges and privatisation, follow up protest marches will be held across the state on Saturday, November 1st, organised once again by the Right2Water campaign. Right2Water.ie is a public campaign [...]
Workers’ Party councillor Ted Tynan has said that both the government and large sections of the media are completely out of touch with reality if they believe that changes in the management and structures of Irish Water will defuse the mass opposition to water charges, water metering and privatisation of the public water supply. Cllr. [...]
THE WORKERS’PARTY OF IRELANDRESULTS OF DUBLIN WORKERS’ PARTY PRIVATE MEMBERS DRAWFIRST PRIZE: € 15O N FITZSIMONS C/O PADDY FITZSIMONS TICKET NUMBER 459SECOND PRIZE: €100 FINTAN DELAMERE, TICKET NUMBER 1931THIRD PRIZE: €50 JONATHAN HANNON, BALGADDY - TICKET NUMBER 1974FORTH PRIZE: HAMPER - MONICA MOORE, DODSBORO LUCAN TICKET 1790 All winners will be notified. The Dublin Region [...]
The Workers’ Party has described Budget 2015 as an exercise of mass deception which will increase the gap between rich and poor and merely seeks to hide austerity rather than reverse it. Responding to the budget measures announced to-date, Workers’ Party President Michael Donnelly said that what had been trumpeted as a budget to [...]
The Workers' Party has been holding an annual Northern Conference for nearly 25 years. Because it's not a policy making conference the debate and discussion is often more robust and open. At this year's conference on October 25th, we'll be raising the questions that seldom get asked, providing the analysis that others don't and [...]