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 attached submission has been sent to Mr Richard Bruton, Minister for Education with regard to the development of a new Strategy for Education and Skills (2016 – 2018) on behalf of the Workers’ Party, Dublin Mid-West Constituency. Mid-West has vast areas of poverty and educational deprivation with extremely low accession rates to third level. [...]
Workers’ Party says inclusion of school-day faith formation in nominally multi-denominational schools is evidence of the need for a state-run, secular education system Cllr. Éilis Ryan Reacting to comments made by Minister for Education Richard Bruton that he favoured the expansion of ‘Community National Schools,’ Workers’ Party Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Dublin [...]
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. [...]
Workers’ Party motion would have seen large businesses forced to disclose wage structure information as part of economic impact assessment. Workers’ Party Councillor Éilis Ryan today (Tuesday May 31st) expressed disappointment at last night’s decision by Labour and Sinn Féin councillors to reject her proposal that major corporations submit an “Economic Impact Assessment” as part [...]
Greeting from the Workers' Party of Ireland To: Central Committee Communist Party of Canada 20 May 2016 Dear Comrades, The Workers Party of Ireland wishes to send warm comradely greetings to the Communist Party of Canada on the occasion of its 38th Convention which is taking place in Toronto on 21-23 May. The CPC stands [...]
The Workers’ Party have said that only a comprehensive job creation programme providing sustainable long-term employment with decent pay and conditions will be acceptable as a replacement for the JobBridge scheme which, it has been announced, is to end in September. Jimmy Dignam Workers’ Party Dublin North West representative Jimmy Dignam said that [...]
Cllr. Éilis Ryan Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers’ Party, Dublin North Inner City) has said that the government’s announcement that it was scrapping minimum recycling charges will make little difference to many households in areas such as the capital’s north inner city who already pay for recycling. Cllr. Ryan said: “The reality is that, [...]
Workers' Party Dublin City Councillor, Éilis Ryan, is calling on the newly established government to hold a referendum on the 8th Amendment to the constitution early in the lifetime of the present Dáil. Cllr. Éilis Ryan Cllr. Ryan said: “It is abundantly clear from numerous media polls that this is the wish of [...]
Cllr. Ted Tynan, "Essential council services must come first" Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has said that he could not in conscience support a loan request for €200,000 by Cork City Council to the Cork Film Festival committee at a time when the council’s services remain seriously curtailed due to cutbacks in its [...]
