Policy

Workers’ Party Ard Fheis / Annual Conference in Dublin this weekend

The Workers’ Party will hold its Ard Fheis / Annual Conference 2015 in Dublin this weekend, gathering at the Communications Workers Union hall, North Circular Road, Dublin 1, on Friday (9th October) and Saturday (10th October). The conference will be attended by over 150 delegates from the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and overseas who [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:59+00:00October 8th, 2015|

Government spending plan “a brown envelope with a hole at both ends”

Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has described that the government capital spending plan, which is to be launched today, as a “large brown envelope with a hole at both ends” Cllr. Tynan said that the contents of the plan had already been substantially and strategically leaked in advance and almost all of the proposed spending, [...]

2015-09-29T08:47:52+00:00September 29th, 2015|

Ireland must cut links with despotic Saudi regime says Ryan

The Workers’ Party has called on the Irish Government to bring to an end its close business and political links with a regime in Saudi Arabia which has condemned a young political activist to death by crucifixion and is a systematic extreme abuser of human rights. Workers’ Party Dublin City Councillor, Éilis Ryan, said: “Recent [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:59+00:00September 25th, 2015|

Greek Elections: WP send solidarity to KKE

The Workers' Party of Ireland has sent the following message of solidarity to the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) with which we have long-standing fraternal relations.   Dear Comrades, The Workers' Party of Ireland sends warm comradely greetings and solidarity to the Communist Party of Greece on the eve of the parliamentary elections in Greece [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:59+00:00September 19th, 2015|

WP say O’Brien must not profit from homeless crisis

The Workers’ Party has condemned the possibility of a company owned by controversial businessman Denis O’Brien being given a contract to provide temporary housing units for homeless families in Dublin. Following a viewing of the modular housing units, Workers’ Party Dublin City Councillor, Éilis Ryan, said that the proposal to use them as a stop-gap [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:59+00:00September 16th, 2015|

Water activist charges are an affront to democracy

Workers’ Party representative for Dublin North-West, Jimmy Dignam, has described the legal charges brought against water activists as an “outrage and an affront to democracy”. He commented, “these proceedings are designed to intimidate people into both paying water charges and to dissuade the water movement from exercising its democratic right to protest”. “The arrests and [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:59+00:00September 15th, 2015|

Need for a comprehensive and forward-looking housing strategy

The Workers’ Party have called for a national housing strategy on a permanent basis to ensure that never again will the citizens of this country have to face the type of housing emergency currently impacting on hundreds of thousands of people. Workers’ Party Meath spokesman Seamus McDonagh said that the current housing crisis was putting [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:59+00:00September 14th, 2015|

Workers’ Party slams double-blow for women’s support services in Ballymun

  Workers' Party Dublin-North West representative Jimmy Dignam has slammed the uncertainty over the future of the North-West Childcare Resource Centre and the Ballymun Young Women’s Project, as a double-blow for women living in Ballymun and the wider north-west Dublin area. Dignam called on the City of Dublin Youth Service Board (CDYSB) to move immediately [...]

2016-02-13T23:17:10+00:00September 10th, 2015|

Ireland should welcome the victims of US and EU States foreign policy

The Workers’ Party has called for Ireland to assist refugees with shelter and demand the ending of NATO interventions in Syria, Libya and Iraq which have provoked the current crisis.   Workers’ Party Dublin City Councillor Éilis Ryan said; “The suffering of those forced to seek refuge in Europe due to the destruction of their [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:59+00:00September 3rd, 2015|

Ireland marches against water charges / privatisation

  Up to 100,000 from every corner of Ireland marched through the streets of Dublin yesterday (29 August) to express their anger at the government over the imposition of water charges and the privatisation agenda.  Irish people already pay for their water and through taxes and there has been a huge campaign against the new [...]

2019-05-19T10:01:00+00:00August 30th, 2015|