Catherine Connolly would be a President who reflects the demands and aspirations of the Irish working class — ensuring that our voice is heard and our values advanced. Her campaign can serve as both a rallying point and a test for the progressive forces in Ireland, proving that unity and coordinated struggle against imperialism and neoliberalism are not only possible but necessary.
Throughout Europe, the capitalists powers are in decline as their model continues to fail and contradictions continue to mount. The future is socialist, and the refrain of all workers must be then as now: all power to the Soviets – expropriate the expropriators.
The Irish Communist Party (ICP) rejects the argument from racist agitators that immigrants are the cause of society’s problems. It is ironic that pseudo ‘patriots’ from the South and Loyalist extremists in the North – with the murky figures of ‘intelligence’ handlers hovering in the background can unite in diverting attention away from the real culprits. For, …
Irish Communist Party View on Immigration Crisis Read More »
On the 28th June the Irish Communist Party National Executive Committee approved the following statement. North and South Irish workers are facing deteriorating social and economic situations, with unresolved crises in housing, health, employment rights and balanced economic development, while the resources we need are diverted to preparations for war and destruction. While it is …
Irish Communist Party Political Statement July 2025 Read More »
The Irish Communist Party joins the call of Iranian, Palestinian, Syrian, American, Greek, Israeli and many other Communist Parties around the world in condemning the naked imperialist aggression of the Yank-Zionist Axis in the Middle East. These acts, which serve no popular cause and are justified by nothing other than anti people aggression bring the …
National Executive Statement 28th June 2025: Down with the Yank-Zionist Axis! Read More »
THE Irish Communist Party/Páirtí Cumannach Eireann welcomes the publication of the Northern Executive’s Programme for government earlier this month – the first such programme in ten years. But while the publication of the Programme is to be welcomed, it has fundamental weaknesses. It is strong on aspiration but weak on the details of how the …
NEC STATEMENT ON NORTHERN PROGRAMME FOR GOVERNMENT 23.03.2025 Read More »
THIS week a general election will take place in the South, and the electorate have the chance to pass their verdict on the outgoing government – a government that has failed completely to tackle the crises in housing, health, rural development; or to even contemplate tackling the inequalities in Irish society. This failure is not …
The Irish Communist Party welcomes the recognition of the Palestinian state by the Irish government under Simon Harris. This is a step in the right direction insofar as it recognises the right of the Palestinian people to statehood and national self-determination. The battle for an actualization of this Palestinian state is still being played out …
Statement on Irish Recognition of Palestinian Statehood 29/05/2024 Read More »
The Irish Communist Party calls for a vote of Yes and No in the forthcoming referendums and demands real solutions instead of symbolic ones.
For two long years working class people in the north of Ireland have watched as the DUP played political games, dissolving Stormont and unilaterally collapsing the legislative political process.