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“There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.” A quote attributed to V. I. Lenin might also be applied to recent events in the Six Counties. The two-week Drumcree standoff has had a large impact on the day-to-day political situation in the north. Not only […]
Inflation continues its upward path this month, as the latest CSO release shows mortgage interest costs, rental costs and diesel prices rising sharply. For workers with high housing and transport costs, the pinch is now really starting to bite; militant pay bargaining, not just across the public but also the […]
On Wednesday 21 October, the Dáil voted 79 to 71 to advance the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2016 to committee stage. 15 Government TDs and 9 Opposition TDs did not vote. There were no abstentions. This would suggest that the Government had pairings with 9 Opposition TDs and had 6 rebels […]
The People’s Budget, published by the Communist Party of Ireland, starts from what working people need now, and goes on to ask what the country has to show for public money once it has been spent. (Available to buy and order from Connolly Books >>> https://www.connollybooks.net/product/the-peoples-budget ) Every October the […]
The Dublin government’s decision to abolish the Triple Lock marks a significant departure from the 26-county state’s traditional policy of military neutrality. Here we see the “extreme centre” at work – imposing technocratic and neoliberal political outcomes over and against popular sentiment while presenting them as the only responsible course […]
Vikentiy Matveyev (1923–1997), celebrated foreign correspondent of the Soviet newspaper Izvestiya and a historian, was among the first Soviet journalists to visit Ireland. Here, we reproduce entries from his journal documenting his visits in 1955 and 1961. 3 September 1955 I was fortunate enough – yes, indeed! – to spend […]
In recent decades, we have been no strangers in Ireland to corruption and inefficiency in the delivery of infrastructure projects. Be it a bike shed or a major hospital, no project seems to have the ability to come in on time and under budget. The investigations into the construction of […]
Public sector workers have demonstrated their determination to secure a fair settlement through collective industrial action. They subsequently suspended further action to facilitate negotiations, yet the Government has failed to produce a satisfactory offer. The Government’s foot-dragging must be seen in a wider context. The latest CSO national accounts show […]
The Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) salutes the working people of Garvaghy Road and their many supporters. We also acknowledge the courageous stand taken by many within protestant community who stood up and supported the people of Garvaghy Road. The Orange Order does not represent nor speak for all protestants. The unity […]
“Let me tell you a story, I’ll be quick as I can Terrible news from the Holy Land Pictures of children etched in my mind Buried in the rubble, on the firing line.” — Christy Moore, “Palestine” Christy Moore played a sold-out concert at the Keadeen Hotel in Droichead Nua […]
For most workers, whether living standards are improving comes down to something fairly tangible: what comes into the household and what has to go out again. A pay rise matters because it increases the claim a worker can make on the goods and services produced by society, but that gain […]
The Communist Party of Ireland calls for a sovereign, socialist , reunited Ireland. The CPI, in the tradition of Connolly, has always maintained that political independence from Britain would not in itself lead to genuine sovereignty. The history of the 26 county state bears this out. It has all the […]
Have pay increases for teachers kept pace with inflation over the last number of years? No, the same as the rest of the public service and, more broadly, most workers. Pay increases under the “Building Momentum” pay deal and the first two years of the Public Service Agreement 2024–26 amounted […]
During his recent visit to Ireland, Donald Trump behaved much as expected. Unwilling to share the limelight, he stole attention from Shane Lowry, winner of the Irish Open, by announcing a lifting of tariffs on Irish whiskey exports to the USA. This populist gesture in Doonbeg was, however, superseded by […]
Organised Workers have had enough! The Communist Party of Ireland welcomes the clear mandate from public sector workers for industrial action over pay and conditions in the public sector. Unions across the public sector have been returning massive ballot results in favour of industrial action demonstrating that public sector workers […]
The undemocratic attack on Irish neutrality by the Government has reached a fever pitch. As a neutral country we should be using the EU Presidency to promote peace and dialogue to end conflicts and to encourage the EU to pull back from increasing militarisation. In effect, quite the opposite is […]