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 »
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 »
By John Molloy THE economic consequences of Donald Trump’s language on tariffs is being considered by all the countries who trade with the US and the implications for the world economy obsessively debated in the media. While of course, if fulfilled, the effects of these White House announcements are huge, the modern need to fill …
Writes Eoin O’Murchu US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s determination to reorientate trade and commercial relations between the US and the rest of the world, particularly Europe, has sent shock waves through the economic and political establishments North and South. In the South, the smug certainty that reliance on foreign direct in- vestment (FDI) was the bedrock …
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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 …
Frank Keoghan shines a light on the significant loss of Irish fishing quotas as a result of Brexit. The EU’s cynical sacrifice of Ireland’s fishing sector as a bargaining chip could have serious consequences for biodiversity, livelihoods and the diversity of domestic production in Ireland, as the resulting losses are made up at the expense of underdeveloped nations.