Workers Party Ard Fheis in session at CWU Headquarters, Dublin. The Workers' Party Ard Fheis / Annual Delegate Conference 2014 took place yesterday (September 27th) at the headquarters of the Communications' Workers Union in Dublin. The aim of the conference was to create the basis for the renewal and rebuilding of The Workers’ Party [...]
The Clár / Agenda of the 2014 Ard Fheis / Annual Delegate Conference of the Workers' Party is now available here for download. Please click to download (PDF format). Click Here: 2014 Clar, Part 1 The Clár will be in two parts. The first is in the attached document, the second, which contains motions from branches, [...]
Repeal the 8th Amendment to the Constitution Workers' Party statement on Abortion in Ireland The issue of women’s reproductive rights in Ireland needs to be seen within the context of efforts to control women and their bodies. The laws and institutions governing abortion are the most recent incarnation of a myriad of institutional measures and [...]
The struggle by workers at Greyhound Recycling to return to their jobs after being locked out by the waste company over 13 weeks ago is one that should concern all workers in Ireland, according to Workers’ Party President Michael Finnegan. Welcoming the decsion of the Greyhound Recycling workers to enter into “intense negotiations” with the [...]
The Workers' Party will hold its Ard Fheis in Dublin on Saturday, 27th September 2014. Branches have been circulated by online forms for submission of motions, nomination of delegates, candidates for the CEC / Ard Comhairle and the position of Party President etc. Conference documents will be issued to branches shortly in conjunction with the [...]
Workers Party Councillor Ted Tynan has expressed concern about repeated breakdowns of radiotherapy machines at Cork University Hospital. Although replacement machines have long been promised the older machines are still being used and breakdowns are a regular occurrence. In November 2013 Cllr. Tynan raised the issue at a meeting of the HSE South Forum where [...]
The Workers’ Party of Ireland condemns the recent banning by the regime in Kiev of the Communist Party of Ukraine, the culmination of a systematic attack on the Communist Party, its rights, its facilities, and its members. The Communist Party of Ukraine won more than two and a half million votes at the 2012 election, [...]
Gaza has a population of 1.8 million, almost half of whom are children under the age of 14. Since 2006 Israel has killed well over 3,000 Palestinian men, women and children in Gaza alone. The current barbaric Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza misnamed “Operation Protective Edge” continues and escalates. Already this operation [...]
Proceedings at the Workers Party annual commemoration of Theobald Wolfe Tone at Bodenstown, Co. Kildare held on Sunday, 29th June 2014 including the opening remarks of chairwoman Gemma Weir of the North Belfast branch of the Workers’ Party and the main address by Michael Donnelly, member of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers’ Party [...]
Contribution by the Workers Party of Ireland to the 23rd International Communist Seminar, Brussels, June 2014. Address by Gerry Grainger, Chair, International Affairs Committee, the Workers Party of Ireland. […]