WP North Belfast party reps Chris Bailie and Gemma Weir show their solidarity Workers Party North Belfast representatives Gemma Weir and Chris Bailie braved the cold this week to call with Party members and supporters in the Kansas Avenue / Cedar Avenue area of North Belfast encouraging them to support the ‘People’s NHSni’ [...]
The President of the Workers' Party, Michael Donnelly, has called for a massive turnout at Wednesday's anti water charges rally in Dublin which is due to gather outside Leinster House at lunchtime. Mr. Donnelly said that the government had to shaken out of its smug complacency in the wake of recent changes in the implementation [...]
“The lowering of Corporation Tax by the Northern Ireland administration will guarantee not one single new job but will assure tax breaks for large firms, accountants and lawyers. This is a massive economic con trick. Beyond the rhetoric - that is the reality of what is happening today”, says John Lowry of the Workers [...]
The Workers Party has welcomed the judgement in the case of Bernadette Smyth who has been found guilty in Belfast of harassing Marie Stopes clinic director Ms. Dawn Purvis “Every woman who uses a family planning service, a pregnancy advice service or any other service concerned with her reproductive health and her choices deserves to [...]
The President of the Workers’ Party, Mick Donnelly, has said that the campaign against water charges and privatisation remains as valid as ever and the campaign should continue on the basis of community based activism and non-violent civil disobedience. The campaign was a genuine people’s one with mass support as shown by the [...]
Hundreds of thousands of people in the Republic of Ireland are expected to demonstrate tomorrow in over 100 cities, towns and villages to voice their outright opposition to water charges, water metering and privatisation of the public water supply. Organised by the Right2Water campaign, a coalition of trade union, community and political groups (including the [...]
The Workers Party held it's annual Northern Ireland Regional Conference in Belfast on Saturday (25th Oct). In what has been one of the most successful conferences to be held in recent years a broad range of subjects were discussed and lively debate was had which was contributed to by numerous party members and invited [...]
The mass opposition to water charges is being undermined by Sinn Féin politicians constantly changing positions on the campaign, according to Meath Workers' Party representative Seamus McDonagh. “The Sinn Féin position on water charges was changing weekly, now it is changing daily. Only two weeks ago TDs Gerry Adams and Mary Lou McDonald publicly stated [...]
Following the massive national demonstration in Dublin on October 11th in which around 100,000 people took to the streets to voice their outright opposition to water charges and privatisation, follow up protest marches will be held across the state on Saturday, November 1st, organised once again by the Right2Water campaign. Right2Water.ie is a public campaign [...]
Workers’ Party councillor Ted Tynan has said that both the government and large sections of the media are completely out of touch with reality if they believe that changes in the management and structures of Irish Water will defuse the mass opposition to water charges, water metering and privatisation of the public water supply. Cllr. [...]