Statement by the Workers Party on 70 years of NATO Today is the seventieth anniversary of the foundation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). On 3rd and 4th April foreign ministers from NATO countries are meeting in Washington D.C. This is no cause for celebration. NATO is an aggressive imperialist war machine that expresses [...]
The Workers’ Party have accused Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney of prioritising Donald Trump’s foreign policy ahead of Irish neutrality. Cllr. Éilis Ryan, the Workers’ Party candidate in May’s European Parliament elections, said: “Simon Coveney has, for the first time in our history, given formal backing to United States overseas aggression. Successive governments under [...]
The Workers Party of Ireland condemns the U.S. sponsored attempted coup against the democratically-elected government of Nicolás Maduro and the recognition of Juan Guaidó, who illegally and in contempt of the democratically expressed wishes of the people of Venezuela, announced himself as interim President of Venezuela, and received immediate recognition by the United States and [...]
The Workers’ Party strongly condemn those responsible for a fire started at a hotel in Roscommon, which was intended to house 80 asylum seekers as a Direct Provision centre. Speaking on the matter, Workers’ Party representative Cathie Shiels said: “Direct Provision is a brutal system to begin with. It is effectively imprisonment, for people who [...]
U.S. naval machine gun crew at the ready on board USS Donald Cook at Cobh quay this afternoon The Workers’ Party has condemned the presence of armed machine-gunners onboard a US warship docked at Cobh today. Workers’ Party Cork Councillor Ted Tynan said the presence of the destroyer is a flagrant breach of [...]
Labour Lord Mayor Brendan Carr's choice of candidate for Freedom of Dublin City has provoked strong reaction at Dublin City Council's monthly meeting tonight (6th February). Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers' Party) said: "To grant Dublin's highest honour to a man responsible for inflicting such harm on communities across the globe, does a great disservice to [...]
Jimmy Dignam, Workers Party representative Dublin North West The Workers’ Party have said that the government must come clean on reports in today’s Irish Examiner that an agreement has been made to allow Britain’s Royal Air Force to overfly Irish airspace and shoot down aircraft suspected of being in the hands of terrorists. [...]
Address of Gerry Grainger, International Affairs Secretary of the Workers' Party of Ireland to the Anti-NATO meeting organised by the Initiative of Communist and Workers' Parties of Europe, Warsaw 8 July 2016 Dear Comrades, I bring greetings from the Workers’ Party of Ireland on the occasion of this meeting which takes place in [...]
