Really proud of all the hard work that’s gone in to these policy documents over the last few months. Go on, have a read of them!
👉Housing:
👉Workers’ Rights:
👉secularism:
Britain’s Sunday Times has attempted to smear
@ClareDalyMEP
, Ireland’s anti-imperialist MEP, by insinuating that her work on prisoners rights somehow implicates her in a shady (non-existent) plot between the Russians and the Real IRA. However disappointing it may be to Rupert
45 years on from the launch of the US-backed coup in Chile we remember those who were imprisoned, tortured, murdered, exiled, disappeared, and had their organisations suppressed because they believed in a better, fairer world.
#11deSeptiembre
Happy birthday Fidel! The Cuban revolution remains an inspiration to all who struggle for a better world
“For revolutionary Cubans, to cooperate with other poor & exploited peoples has always been a political principle & a duty towards humanity”
Hasta la victoria siempre 🇨🇺🚩🇮🇪
⚡️🏭 A State-led approach to the development and utilisation of nuclear power generation is an essential tool in the fight against climate change and the provision of affordable energy for working people.
At the launch of the our new policy document, entitled 'Let’s Get Real: A
Some Irish MEPs have voiced opposition to an EU proposal to classify nuclear energy as sustainable. A strange position for those who claim to be concerned about climate change. Nuclear energy has the lowest carbon emissions & best safety record of all energy sources 1/6
''If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain.''
James Connolly, murdered May 12th, 1916.
The two opposing demonstrations that took place in Dublin city centre today show that the issue of inward migration remains firmly on the political agenda.
While it is important to oppose those who organise around the politics of hate, it is also important to recognise that
🚊Solidarity to
@RMTunion
as they continue their fight for fair pay, decent conditions and job security ✊🏻🚩
If workers aren't bargaining, they're begging.
#ToryRailStrike
Support the
#RMT
#DayofAction
🇨🇺 The Workers' Party of Ireland condemn the attempts by the U.S. to capitalise on the recent protests in Santiago de Cuba in a further attempt to destabilize and overthrow Cuba's socialist system.
There is no denying that the situation in Cuba is extremely difficult and has
This is surely the very definition of gaslighting!
We still await the DART underground which was first proposed in 1972, the Metrolink was first proposed in 2005 & isn’t expected to be operational until 2031, outside of Dublin public transport is almost non existent
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On the centenary of the foundation of the Communist Party of Spain, the Workers’ Party of Ireland send warm congratulations.
@elpce
is especially respected for its decades of struggle and sacrifice against fascism.
Long live working-class internationalism! ✊🏻🚩
👇🏻👇🏻
🇵🇸 The assault by the Palestinians on Israeli settlements this weekend has caught the Israeli security forces off guard and resulted in hundreds killed, many of them unarmed.
The loss of life is extremely sad but it is an unpleasant truth that the violence, while shocking, is a
After 70 years spent ruling from a golden throne, Britain's Queen Elizabeth has died aged 96.
Although a significant minority of the people of Ireland will be in mourning, as republicans in the tradition of Tone, Emmet and Connolly, we wholeheartedly reject the idea...
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Long live Cuba! 🇨🇺✊🏻🇮🇪
"To be internationalist is to pay off our own debt to humanity. Whoever is not able to fight for others will never be able to fight for himself."
Fidel Castro 🇨🇺✊🏻
- The man is still is serious condition
- Gardaí are looking for witnesses
- There’s investigations by the Health and Safety Authority, Waterways Ireland & the Homeless Executive
A list of just 3 things in the article that are more useful as headlines than the man’s nationality.
"It is a tragic irony of Irish history that, having fought a globe-spanning empire to build an independent Irish nation, .. it stands today as a tax colony of American tech in which the native young leave because of its unchecked speculative landlordism."
The United States continue to escalate its attacks on Nicaragua.
Nicaragua is yet another in a long line of countries which, seen as a threat to U.S. imperialism, is being subjected to sanctions based on unsubstantiated allegations and outright falsehoods.
The Workers’ Party strongly condemn the cowardly attack on Cuban embassy in Paris. The attack has caused serious damage to the building but thankfully there were no injuries.
The US has deliberately incited violence towards Cuba with a persistent negative propaganda campaign.
Risky signing for Linfield. Leo Varadkar is a true blue(shirt) and never strays from the right-wing, but if his record on the League of Ireland is anything go by, he'll have no positive impact on the Irish League either.
We are deeply saddened to announce that Seán Garland, former Party President and General Secretary, has passed away. Seán was an organiser, a leader and an inspiration to all of his comrades in the Workers’ Party and to so many beyond it.
The international community must be vocal in their defence of the sovereignty of Cuba, Nicaragua & Venezuela. We must be clear that these illegal & immoral sanctions must end.
👇🏻🇨🇺🇳🇮 🇻🇪 ✊🏻🇮🇪🚩
@WPNorthBelfast
@Phil_Kelly_
@NicaraguaSC_UK
@CubaIreSol
We attended the rally for Noah today & send our full and continued solidarity to the Donohoe family.
This PII must be withdrawn immediately. Noah’s family deserve truth and justice.
Release the files! 💙
“It’s strange talking to people who think women are children, who think I can’t make up my own mind or have to be protected from myself with these laws.” - Cathie Shiels from
@freesafelegal
closing out the rally!
#together4yes
"Growing up I was shaped by two things: a first-hand understanding of struggle & and awareness that if you want to win that struggle, you have to fight"
Please share, donate, get involved and vote for
@CathieShiels
for
#LE19
!
Sinn Féin's call to expel the Russian Ambassador is cynical and populist. Did they call for the expulsion of the US Ambassador when NATO bombed Libya? No, too busy cosying up to their friends in the US establishment.
✊🏻🚩🇮🇪 On behalf of the Workers’ Party, the Ard Chomhairle and Party President Michael McCorry would like to wish a prosperous 2024 to all workers and their families.
2023 has proven to be another tough year for working people. Crises around housing, healthcare and the
Cuba are consistent in improving the quality of life for their people and are steadfast in sending support to other countries in need, whenever needed. All this despite a crippling illegal and immoral blockade.
Defend Cuba 🇨🇺🇮🇪✊🏻
#nomaabloque
Subsidizing landlords instead of building houses is not fiscally responsible.
Underpaying workers is not fiscally responsible.
Privatizing instead of building public services is not fiscally responsible.
At our Ard Fheis yesterday our International Secretary presented an engraved piece of Waterford Crystal to the Cuban Ambassador Hugo René.
The WPI will continue to stand in solidarity with our Cuban comrades
#cubanvive
🇨🇺✊🏻🇮🇪🚩
#OTD
1961 FSLN was founded in Nicaragua. The Workers’ Party Belfast delivered a letter to the US consulate to demand an end to the sanctions against the people of Nicaragua who continue to withstand attacks against their sovereignty. 🇳🇮🇨🇮✊🏻🚩
@WPNorthBelfast
@NicaraguaSC_UK
🏭⚡ Ballylumford power station could be used to produce nuclear power, according to a new policy document from the Workers' Party.
The document, entitled 'Let's Get Real: A Plan For Nuclear Power in Ireland,' claims that nuclear energy is cheap, safe and affordable, and details
As statues of King Leopold II come down in Belgium we remember Roger Casement, a key figure of the Easter Rising, who exposed the crimes of Belgian colonialism.
Casement and the many others like him who opposed imperialism deserve celebration.
Chris Bailie talks to CCTV at Lanark Way attempting to defuse the current tensions and persuade young people to go home. Smash sectarianism - workers unite!
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Workers’ Party comrade and long-time Ard Comhairle member, John Jefferies.
To John’s family, comrades and friends, we offer our deepest condolences.
Our full tribute is available here 👉
Yesterday, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Greens voted against a motion calling on the state to protect the rights of Debenhams workers.
Today, they voted to pay junior ministers, already on €124k, an extra €16k a year for attending cabinet meetings.
Gangsters.
✊🏻🚩🇮🇪 Thanks to everyone who came along last night to remember Cathal Goulding, socialist republican and revolutionary, on the 100th anniversary of his birth.
Cathal fought for a better Ireland, one operated by and for that great mass of people in society - the working class.
The
@partei_dkp
have been informed that they will not be registered as a political party for upcoming elections & may be de-listed as a party. This will have a chilling effect on democracy & threaten the ability to peacefully organise for socialism 👇🏻👇🏻
⚡️Our public meeting on nuclear power takes place in Wynn’s Hotel in Dublin this Thursday at 7pm.
🗣 Speakers at the event include Garrett Greene, Workers’ Party rep. for Cabra-Glasnevin, Sarah Cullen, an engineer and co-founder of 18for0, as well as Frankie Fenton, the film
Yes for Savita, for X, for those who leave and those who can't, for those who want families and those who don't, for those who can't vote, and for all those that may grow up never knowing the 8th amendment and the control it has on our lives
#WhoNeedsYourYes
WPY delivered a letter of protest to the Ukrainian Embassy demanding the immediate release of Kononovichi brothers, members of the Leninist Youth League of the CP of Ukraine, who have been arrested on groundless charges of espionage by Ukraine security services. 1/2
Ordering a take-away in Dublin tonight? Make sure you don’t order through Deliveroo, their workers are on strike tonight. Never cross a picket line, be it in person or virtual.
✊🚩
Our members stood in solidarity with members of the Cuba Solidarity Forum and friends of Cuba to show their support to the Cuban government, ambassador and people. These current protests are US-funded and designed to weaken Cuba. They will not succeed! 🇨🇺🇮🇪✊🏻
🏦 The Nigel Farage bank episode in the UK shows that Ireland should legislate to guarantee the right to a bank account, according to Workers' Party representative Garrett Greene.
The Cabra-Glasnevin representative argued for legislation to prevent banks from refusing bank
🪧 Posters are up around Dublin city centre promoting our public meeting on nuclear power.
⚛️ The meeting takes place tomorrow at 7pm in Wynn's Hotel on Abbey Street, and features our own Garrett Greene, Sarah Cullen of 18for0 and film director Frankie Fenton.
Bígí linn.
Michelle O’Neill accepting an invitation to King Charles III coronation flies in the face of her & her party’s claim to be republicans.
As republicans in the tradition of Tone & Connolly, we wholeheartedly reject the idea that by virtue of being born into a certain family, 1/5
...that by virtue of being born into a certain family, one has a God-given right to rule from a golden throne, especially while working people struggle to make ends meet.
Furthermore, we reject the imperialism of the British Empire, which Queen Elizabeth has symbolised..
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...is one that ought to be swept into the dustbin of history. The future, we hope, is one of a 32-county sovereign, socialist republic on this island, and also one of sovereignty, socialism and republicanism in Britain and around the world.
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Our
@eilistweets
and
@CathieShiels
down at
@DubCityCouncil
demanding that councillors stop the great Dublin giveaway - O’Devaney Gardens should have 100% public housing on public land! ✊️
Out in Finglas this morning with
@CathieShiels
talking about solutions to the
#HousingCrisis
that work for normal people and not landlords or bankers! ✊️
We are deeply shocked & saddened by the death of a woman in North Belfast.
Domestic violence has increased during Covid. 1000s of women & children are unable to access emergency refuge accommodation. Ending the scourge of domestic violence must be a priority.
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O’Devaney Gardens vote on sale deferred
Our activists have put in so much work over the last 3 years to secure sufficient public understanding + support for cost rental public housing that it’s now politically dangerous to ignore it!
Some good words from
@eilistweets
below!
🎙📺 Trade unionist Mick Lynch spoke on The Late Late Show on Friday about what Irish workers should expect from our politicians.
✊🏻🚩 Only a workers’ party can truly represent the interests of working people. Join us and build that party.
👉🏻
If we are serious about creating a zero-carbon economy in Ireland then nuclear energy is the only existing technology which can allow us to completely eliminate fossil fuels. 2/6
🕯🚩
#OTD
30th January 1972 thousands assembled in Derry to peacefully protest for civil rights and an end to internment. British troops opened fire resulting in a massacre and the death of 14 innocent people. 1/3
👇🏻👇🏻
Is there an Airbnb / short term let operating illegally in your area?
Short-term letting of residential property for over 90 days in a year is illegal in Rent Pressure Zones.
But enforcement isn’t happening and Airbnb continues to disrupt communities and limit supply.
1/3 The United States continue with their attempts to undermine the Cuban Revolution. Planned counter revolutionary protests for 15th November are nothing more than a propaganda exercise designed to discredit & spread misleading & false information
Don't worry
@FineGael
- you can keep telling young people to "just talk", "just reach out", "go for a walk in the park". It's not like we need actual functioning services.
Anti war demonstrators tonight at the embassy of the United States.
Solidarity across peace and neutrality groups across Dublin
#NoWarWithlran
#PeaceNotWar
“The Workers’ Party calls on the Irish government to ensure that they are no longer complicit in the conflict. US warplanes must be stopped from landing in Shannon Airport as a matter of urgency.” -
@eilistweets
👉
✊🏻🚩🇮🇪 We've been out canvassing for
@GreeneOctober
, as well as putting up some posters to support
@ClareDalyMEP
, over the past few days. Lots of positive conversations had on issues local, national and international.
🗳 If elected, Garrett Greene will be a fighting voice for
over the past 70 years. Whether in the form of British colonial holdings or the more recent imperialist adventures undertaken hand-in-hand with the United States of America, this is what Queen Elizabeth stood over for decades as head of state.
The notion of monarchy...
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On 14 October 1936 the first group of trainees for the International Brigades arrived in Spain. Today we remember that our internationalism is our strength ✊️
Saddened to announce the death of May Mac Giolla, longtime Workers’ Party member and widow of the late Party President, Dublin West TD and Lord Mayor of Dublin Tomás MacGiolla. May’s lifetime spanned a century of Irish socialist and republican struggle.
✊🏻🚩🇮🇪
@ClareDalyMEP
and
@GreeneOctober
spoke about the failure of the government, as well as some on the left, to address issues around deprivation and migration that have given rise to those who push for anti-migrant violence.
⚠️ Rioting has broken out in Dublin city centre following an attack on Parnell Square earlier today which left three children and a woman hospitalised. The perpetrator of the attack must be brought to justice and face punishment proportional to their crime; their nationality is
So, what we’ve learnt so far about
#COVID19ireland
is that everyone should
✅ Wash your hands
✅ Dont be so Sinophobic
✅ Join the fight to make sure ALL workers have paid sick leave
Despite 20 yrs of campaigning & political posturing on climate change, neither the state nor any arm of the Irish green movement has produced a viable plan for meeting all of Ireland’s energy demand from renewable sources. Quite simply, no such plan exists: 3/6