We are the Workers’ Party

We are your Party

Download our 2019 Local Election Manifesto

The Workers’ Party is committed to building a secular and socialist republic in which power is in the hands of the working class. Over the last decade, working people in Ireland and across the world have been faced with a housing crisis, an increase in precarious work, and a dramatic fall in real income. At the same time we are seeing cuts to public services, raised retirement ages, attacks on pensions, and increased levels of poverty and homelessness.

This is no accident. It is the consequence of the capitalist economic system, which can be only be tackled by challenging the ownership of the economy, taking the wealth out of the hands of the few.

The Workers’ Party believes in a different society, one in which working people, who create the wealth, also control it, using the significant productive potential of our country to create decent jobs, affordable public housing, quality public services and a society that work to the benefit of all.

We believe that real change requires a break with the present system in which workers are exploited – a transformation of society to create a world which guarantees quality of life for all our people, instead of a system driven by the relentless pursuit of profit for the benefit of the few.

Our full programme can only be implemented by winning state power for the working class and completing a socialist transformation. However, the Workers’ Party believes that it is essential to defend the living standards of the working class and the role of the state within the economy, and that our policies can improve the lives and living standards of working people and their families in the here and now.

Download our 2016 General Election Manifesto