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The Workers’ Party to protest US interference in Venezuela

US interference in Venezuelan elections and threats of intervention and sanctions unacceptable according to The Workers' Party. The Workers' Party have warned that the United States is embarking on dangerous and destabilising actions in Venezuela. They are protesting the moves at the US Embassy in Dublin tonight, 10th of August at 7pm. Workers' Party representative [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:23+00:00August 10th, 2017|

Workers’ Party criticises media coverage of Venezuelan elections

The Irish media have today come under attack for what has been termed "dishonest, biased and unprofessional reporting" of the past days' elections in Venezuela. Gavin Mendel-Gleason, Workers' Party representative for Dublin North West, said: The Irish people have been staunch supporters of the many Latin American movements which have fought against US-led coups and [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:23+00:00August 1st, 2017|

Workers Party of Ireland statement on Palestine

Workers’ Party of Ireland statement on Palestine Palestine The Workers Party has a long history of support for and solidarity with the Palestinian people and our Party was very actively involved, for example, in the establishment of Ireland Friends of Palestine, one of the first solidarity groups set up in Ireland (1981) to promote the [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:23+00:00July 27th, 2017|

Tudeh Party of Iran condemn Trump agenda in Persian Gulf & Middle East

A message from our Tudeh Party of Iran comrades The adventurist policies of the United States and the regional reaction are serious threats to the national sovereignty of Iran and the struggle of the patriotic and freedom-loving forces of Iran against the theocratic Supreme Leadership regime.   Tudeh Party of Iran emblem After [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:24+00:00June 30th, 2017|

Message solidarity and support to PAME on occasion of General Strike & Rallies,

PAME protest in Athens today (17.05.2017) The Workers' Party has sent the following message to PAME, the Greek All Workers Militant Front on the occasion of the Greek General Strike organised by PAME and May Demonstrations and Rallies across Greece. Dear comrades, The Workers Party of Ireland sends warm greetings and extends its [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:26+00:00May 17th, 2017|

Blair’s true politics laid bare by his appearance at Conservative EPP conference in Wicklow

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 [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:26+00:00May 11th, 2017|

9th May, 72 years after the Great Anti-fascist Victory of the Peoples

Sovet soldiers fly the Red Flag over Berlin on the occasion of the defeat of fascism, May 1945 Contribution by the Workers Party of Ireland to internationalist meeting in Berlin From September 1939 to June 1941 the fascists marched triumphantly through Europe. Nazi divisions attacked Poland on 1st September 1939. On 9th April [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:27+00:00May 8th, 2017|

Government must come clean on whether it supported Saudi bid for UN women’s commission seat

The Workers’ Party has said that the government must come clean on whether it supported Saudi Arabia’s successful bid for a seat on the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Dublin Workers’ Party Councillor Éilis Ryan said that the government’s refusal to reveal how Ireland  voted can only be taken as a tacit [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:27+00:00May 4th, 2017|

Solidarity with the struggle of oil workers in Kazakhstan

Kazakh oil workers (Photo via World Federation of Trade Unions) In Kazakhstan, gross violations of trade union and labor rights, and repression of trade union activists continue. We all remember the bloody events in Zhanaozen in December 2011, when the police fired at unarmed strikers and civilians. Dozens and hundreds of people were [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:27+00:00April 28th, 2017|

Workers’ Party of Ireland solidarity message to the Iraqi Communist Party

Dear Comrades, The Workers Party of Ireland extends its solidarity to the Iraqi Communist Party and condemns the vicious and cowardly attack on the headquarters of the district committee of the Iraqi Communist Party in the city of Diwaniyah in southern Iraq. The WPI also condemns the use of firearms on the university campus and [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:28+00:00April 14th, 2017|