To all Party members, supporters and friends. As the old year closes and a new one dawns it is time to reflect upon what the old represented and the new might hold. Michael Donnelly, President of the Workers' Party It was a year that held no great cheer for the hundreds of thousands [...]
Personal tribute to May Mac Giolla by Workers' Party President Michael Donnelly Workers' Party President Michael Donnelly I first met May many years ago back in the early 1970’s through her husband Tomás , when I was then a delegate from the North West Region of the Party representing Derry & Strabane at [...]
Workers' Party oration marking the 101st anniversary of the 1916 Rising Gemma Weir delivering the Workers' Party Easter oration at Arbour Hill, Dublin. The Easter Rising 1916 was a truly momentous event in the annals of modern Irish history and we rightly celebrate it today. Indeed, it can be said [...]
WP President Michael Donnelly Comrades and friends, the past year has been a difficult one for most workers and their families as well as those who are unemployed. Despite the self-congratulations from government ministers and their media apologists, about how much better-off people are both in Northern Ireland as well as in the [...]
Workers Party Ard Fheis, Dublin, 18/19 October 2016 Over 150 delegates and observers attended the Workers’ Party Ard Fheis on Friday (18th November) and Saturday (19th November) in the Communications Workers’ Union Hall in Dublin 1, where motions were passed on a broad range of issues including public housing, reproductive rights and Traveller [...]
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 [...]
Another failure by private sector highlights the strength of the public sector WP President Michael Donnelly The Workers’ Party President, Michael Donnelly, called on the government to allow the ESB Group, through Eirgrid, to take over the construction of the Mayo Renewable Power generation station at Killala saying that once again the private [...]
Workers Party President Michael Donnelly The Workers' Party has welcomed the outcome of the EU Referendum in the UK and has said that it is a clear demonstration that working people have rejected the political and economic direction of the European Union despite attempts to deliberately confuse and sidetrack the debate. “The European Union [...]
WP President Michael Donnelly The working people of Northern Ireland, for the first time in over 40 years, have the opportunity to make their voices heard on the institution now known as the European Union. Unfortunately, the real debate has been obscured and distorted by the official “Remain” and “Leave” campaigns, each of [...]
Jo Cox MP who was murdered in her West Yorkshire constituency on June 16th Workers Party President, Michael Donnelly has written to the leader of the British Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn to express the Party’s condolences on the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox. “The Workers Party extends its deepest sympathy to Jo [...]
