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Repeal the 8th Amendment

 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 [...]

2019-05-19T10:01:06+00:00September 15th, 2014|

Greyhound dispute concerns all workers

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 [...]

2019-05-19T10:01:07+00:00September 11th, 2014|

Workers Party Ard Fheis 2014

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 [...]

2014-09-03T18:50:41+00:00September 3rd, 2014|

Ongoing concerns about HSE South radiotherapy

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 [...]

2019-05-19T10:01:07+00:00August 26th, 2014|

WPI condemn banning of CP of Ukraine

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, [...]

2019-05-19T10:01:07+00:00August 14th, 2014|

Statement on the crisis in Gaza

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 [...]

2019-05-19T10:01:07+00:00July 20th, 2014|

Annual Wolfe Tone commemoration

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 [...]

2019-05-19T10:01:08+00:00June 29th, 2014|

WPI address to 23rd Int. Communist Seminar

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. […]

2019-05-19T10:01:08+00:00June 25th, 2014|

Coughlan calls for urgent Northside jobs strategy

Cork City North West Workers’ Party candidate James Coughlan has called for a realistic jobs strategy for the Northside of the city based on strategic planning and direct job creation by state agencies and local authorities. Mr. Coughlan said that as an immediate priority hundreds of building workers could be put to work if the [...]

2019-05-19T10:01:08+00:00May 19th, 2014|

Root-and-branch policing inquiry needed

The President of the Workers’ Party, Michael Finnegan, has said that the resignation of Minister Alan Shatter does not, as the government may hope, draw a line in the sand in relation to public concerns regarding the administration of justice in this country. “Alan Shatter was an arrogant Minister in a government which has made [...]

2014-05-17T16:26:59+00:00May 17th, 2014|