Workers’ Party to run on a platform of opposing elite attacks on public services and workers’ rights, and radical action against war and climate change Euro Parliament backing for Trump’s Venezuela ‘coup’ shows need for more anti-war MEPs Cllr Éilis Ryan this morning (Wednesday) launched her Dublin MEP bid on behalf of the Workers’ Party, [...]
The Workers’ Party has condemned the visit today (Thursday) by former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair to the conference of the European People’s Party (EPP) in Wicklow, the European parliamentary party of which Fine Gael is a member. Gavin Mendel-Gleason, Workers’ Party representative for Dublin North West, said Blair’s appearance at the conservative party conference [...]
Cllr Éilis Ryan and May MacGiolla at the 2016 Bodenstown Commemoration Comrades, A few weeks ago, May MacGiolla mentioned to me that she thought this was her 81st year attending Bodenstown commemorations. Speaking to May, and indeed reading previous addresses given in Bodenstown, it was clear that it's unusual for a member who [...]
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 [...]
Cllr. Ted Tynan The Workers' Party have said that talk of reforms in the European Union structures to make it more accountable and democratic can have no credibility while the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) continues to be pushed by national governments and the EU commission. Cork Workers Party Cllr Ted Tynan [...]
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 [...]
Workers Party Lexit meeting Belfast with KKE guests A Workers Party meeting was held in Belfast last night (Tuesday) to discuss a principled left exit (LEXIT) from the European Union. The meeting heard that not only is it un-reformable but that it is impossible to ignore the class character of the EU and its institutions. [...]
The Workers Party in Northern Ireland is calling for a class based response to the European Union debate and is in favour of a Leave Vote as part of a principled, socialist LEXIT strategy. As part of the LEXIT debate the Party is holding a public meeting on Tuesday 14th June at 7pm in [...]
The European Union is undemocratic and irreformable. On June 23 the Workers Party will be calling for a vote to Leave the EU in the forthcoming . However, our position is not the same as the narrow right wing approach of the mainstream Brexit camapign. Ours is a principled socialist case for leaving the European Union. [...]
