Policy

WP call for new water march to keep up pressure on wavering parties

The Workers’ Party have called on the leadership of the Right2Water campaign to organise a further national rally against the water charges in order to increase the pressure on political parties and deputies who had been elected on a mandate to abolish water charges and Irish Water to keep those promises. Workers’ Party spokesperson Seamus [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:49+00:00March 30th, 2016|

Gemma Weir to stand in North Belfast

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 [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:50+00:00March 20th, 2016|

Joint Statement of Communist & Workers Parties

We must confront the exploitative system, which gives rises to wars, refugees, immigration and poverty. Solidarity now with the refugees and immigrants! We, the communist and workers parties, that sign this text: We denounce the imperialist aggressiveness, the interventions and wars, the USA, NATO and the EU and their "allies", like Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:50+00:00March 15th, 2016|

Workers Party send message of solidarity to the CP of Pakistan

MESSAGE FROM THE WORKERS PARTY OF IRELAND TO THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF PAKISTAN ON THE OCCASION OF THE IX CONGRESS OF THE CPP Dear Comrades, The Workers Party of Ireland sends warm comradely greetings to the Communist Party of Pakistan on the occasion of your 9th Congress. Your Congress takes place at a time of [...]

2016-03-15T21:38:45+00:00March 15th, 2016|

Workers’ Party calls for reversal of fuel, telephone allowance cuts, to compensate elderly for water charge payments

The Workers’ Party have called for any incoming government to commit to reversing cuts made in recent years to pensioners’ fuel and telephone allowances, to compensate them for water charges paid in the past year. Workers’ Party councillor in Dublin, Éilis Ryan, said; “The Workers’ Party has consistently argued for a boycott of Irish Water. [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:50+00:00March 14th, 2016|

Dublin City Councillors call for an independent investigation into the assassination of Honduran human rights activist Berta Caceres

Berta Caceres (1973-2016) At a meeting of Dublin City Council this evening (Monday 7th March), Dublin City Councillors agreed to a request made by Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers’ Party), that the council call for an independent investigation into the death of human rights activist Berta Caceres in Honduras last week. Berta Caceres, founder [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:50+00:00March 7th, 2016|

Workers Party express solidarity with striking Cadbury workers

Workers’ Party representative Jimmy Dignam has expressed the party’s solidarity with striking workers at Cadbury’s plant in Coolock Dignam, who is the Workers’ Party representative in Dublin North West today visited the picket line at Cadbury’s in Coolock and said: ‘I would like to offer my full support to the workers in UNITE and SIPTU [...]

2016-03-03T19:09:59+00:00March 4th, 2016|

Dignam calls for cancellation of modular housing as FOI shows no sites were considered in wealthy areas of city

  Reacting to the news that Dublin City Council were forced to cancel their initial €20 million tender for modular housing, Jimmy Dignam said: ‘Dublin City Council should cancel their plans for modular housing completely. The whole process has been poorly thought out. We were told the houses would be cheaper than properly constructed housing, [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:50+00:00March 2nd, 2016|

Workers’ Party candidate disappointed by AAA misrepresentation on abortion rights

Cllr Eilis Ryan, The Workers' Party general election candidate in Dublin Central, has criticised the Anti Austerity Alliance for issuing a press release falsely claiming that The Workers' Party were not pro-choice. Cllr. Éilis Ryan Cllr Ryan said, 'It is deeply disappointing that Diana O'Dwyer and Ruth Coppinger would set themselves up as [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:50+00:00February 24th, 2016|

Water protests have put privatisation on the back foot – Friday’s election should ensure it is taken off the agenda

Time to repudiate the McCarthy Report on the sale of State Assets Cllr. Ted Tynan, the Workers’ Party candidate in Cork North Central has said that the massive backlash against water charges and Irish Water had put the outgoing government’s privatisation plans seriously on the back foot but he  feared  these plans could be revived [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:51+00:00February 23rd, 2016|