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Workers Party Northern Ireland election broadcast

The following is the Party Political Broadcast of the Workers' Party for the forthcoming Westminster elections which will be held on May 7th       The Party’s candidates are: Hugh Scullion Mid Ulster: Damien Harte Upper Bann Lily Kerr Belfast South: John Lowry Belfast West: Gemma Weir Belfast North. In a joint statement the [...]

2019-05-19T10:01:01+00:00April 22nd, 2015|

Workers’ Party strongly supports Marriage Equality

  The Workers’ Party Central Executive Committee has welcomed the publication, by the government, of the wording for the forthcoming referendum on Marriage Equality and promised to campaign vigorously for a Yes vote. Michael Donnelly, president of the Workers’ Party stated: “This referendum is long overdue. It peels back one further layer of repression from [...]

2019-05-19T10:01:01+00:00April 22nd, 2015|

Tynan calls for re-nationalisation of Whitegate Refinery

Cork Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has called on the government to re-nationalise the Whitegate Refinery in the national interest and to ensure Ireland retains the ability to refine oil products and keep a strategic reserve in case of future oil shortages which could become a reality in the event of growing threats of war [...]

2015-04-14T10:04:12+00:00April 14th, 2015|

Weir condemns North Belfast attack

The Workers' Party has condemned  the attack on the North Belfast constituency office of the SDLP which was discovered on Saturday morning (February 14th). North Belfast WP representative Gemma Weir said, "The overnight attack on the Antrim Road offices of the SDLP is disgraceful and cowardly and is designed to intimidate all those engaged in [...]

2019-05-19T10:01:02+00:00February 15th, 2015|

Arrests highlight wholesale failures of policing

The need to place the wholesale reform of the policing service on top of the political agenda is clear from ongoing campaign of arrests targeting political activists and the working class community of Jobstown, according to Workers’ Party Dublin City Councillor Éilis Ryan. “In recent days what has been witnessed is not only clearly policing driven by [...]

2019-05-19T10:01:02+00:00February 11th, 2015|

WP President condemns arrest of Murphy and others

Michael Donnelly The Workers’ Party have condemned the arrest this morning of Socialist Party TD Paul Murphy and three other people for their alleged role in a protest against Tánaiste Joan Burton at Jobstown in West Dublin last November. Workers’ Party President  Michael Donnelly said that the arrest of the four was not [...]

2019-05-19T10:01:03+00:00February 9th, 2015|

Ryan condemns intimidation of water protesters

Workers’ Party Dublin councillor Éilis Ryan has condemned the intimidation of water protesters by private security firms working for Irish Water and has said the failure of the company and its agents to respond to queries and complaints from local representatives was completely unacceptable   Councillor Ryan, who represents the North Inner City Ward,  submitted [...]

2019-05-19T10:01:03+00:00February 5th, 2015|

Workers’ Party slam Stormont House deal

The Workers Party has described the Stormont House Agreement as a bad deal for workers and the formal and most public indication to date of the adoption of Tory economic principles and policies by the DUP/Sinn Féin led administration in Northern Ireland.   At the January meeting of the Party's Central Executive Committee the Party [...]

2015-01-26T19:49:54+00:00January 26th, 2015|

Donnelly condemns spy deal

Above: Satellite dishes at the secretive General Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) near Cheltenham, England. The Workers’ Party has condemned the government’s signing of a Statutory Instrument giving foreign law enforcement authorities the right to intercept Irish telephone calls and electronic communications such as email and text messages.   Workers’ Party President Michael Donnelly said that the [...]

2019-05-19T10:01:04+00:00December 8th, 2014|

Party welcomes Marie Stopes judgement

The Workers Party has welcomed the judgement in the case of Bernadette Smyth who has been found guilty in Belfast of harassing Marie Stopes clinic director Ms. Dawn Purvis “Every woman who uses a family planning service, a pregnancy advice service or any other service concerned with her reproductive health and her choices deserves to [...]

2014-11-20T08:00:40+00:00November 20th, 2014|