For Northern Ireland the Westminster election on June 8th is not about leaving the European Union nor is it a re-run of the referendum. It is an opportunity to pass judgement on the main parties at Stormont and their failure to form an Executive nearly two months after being elected. Without doubt the major parties [...]
Workers' Party statement on collapsing of the Northern Ireland Assembly Commenting on the collapse of the Northern Ireland Executive and the calling of an Asembly election for March 2nd, the Workers' Party have issued the following statement:- ‘This election is unnecessary and will solve nothing unless people use it to pass judgement on all [...]
The DUP / Sinn Fein Coalition has consistently failed to deliver The Workers Party has condemned as ‘irresponsible’ Sinn Fein’s decision to resign from the Executive and trigger an Assembly election. ‘Today’s resignation will solve nothing. The RHI scandal will remain unaddressed, the waste of public money will continue, there will be no [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
WP Assembly Candidates 2016 The Workers' Party will be contesting the forthcoming Northern Ireland Assembly elections with the following candidates: Conor Campbell - West Belfast Damien Harte - Upper Bann Lily Kerr - South Belfast Hugh Scullion - Mid Ulster Gemma Weir - North Belfast In a joint statement the candidates said, [...]
Gemma Weir is to stand as the Workers Party’s North Belfast candidate in May’s Assembly Elections. Gemma Weir She was confirmed as the party’s choice at an election rally held on Sunday. Gemma, who polled almost one thousand votes in last year’s Westminster elections, used the rally to set out her manifesto saying [...]
The loss of more than 1,000 jobs at the Bombardier plant in Belfast has been described by the Workers Party as ‘…a further blow to Northern Ireland’s manufacturing base and evidence, if it was needed, that the Assembly has no viable job creation programme to secure existing jobs and expand the economy’ Bombardier “This announcement comes in the wake [...]
The Workers Party has welcomed this morning’s High Court Ruling that abortion legislation in Northern Ireland is in breach of human rights law but has expressed regret that this decision had to come through the courts rather than via the Assembly. “As a society we must support a woman’s right to choose and recognise that [...]
