This Government, like the Irish economy, is holed below the water line and is sinking. The life-raft being constructed by the EU and the IMF is not designed to solve the deepening problems facing our people but only to save the rich and powerful, in particular the  German, French and British banks, as well as [...]

POLITICAL STATEMENT
The deepening crisis of the monopoly capitalist system—imperialism—has exposed the deep structural crisis lying at its very heart. The crisis has also shown that the system is incapable of resolving its deep contradictions without resorting to a massive assault on the working conditions and living standards of working people and on the gains made [...]

The November issue of the Socialist Voice is now available online.
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Under the title “Introduction to Marxism,” a new political education series began in Dublin in October. The course covers classes and class struggle, the state and democracy, philosophy, Marxist economics, imperialism and globalisation, culture, and the role of the CPI. Those wishing to attend should send an e-mail request to the CPI:cpoi@eircom.net
The presentations will [...]

The Communist Party of Ireland congratulates the students of Ireland who marched in their thousands, coming from all over the country, to protest against the expected rise in registration fees to third level colleges to be contained in the forthcoming budget.
The Party condemns the violence perpetrated by the forces of the state, the use of [...]

The October edition of the Socialist Voice is now available. It includes this article on the Irish government’s shock doctrine approach to Irish health care.
Renewed plans to strip the country’s acute hospitals of their emergency and intensive-care services have recently been unveiled by the Health Service Executive. The new hierarchy of hospital closures spells [...]

The crisis is deepening within our society, current and future generation of working people, small businesses, family farmers, self-employed, the growing ranks of unemployed and the poor are and will be forced to pay a heavy price for a system that is incapable of delivering a just and equatable society.
It is being kept alive [...]

Europe wide day of action in protest against the cuts and austerity measures being imposed by the EU Commission and carried out be national governments.  Please assemble outside the Anglo-Irish Bank  headquarters St Stephen Green at 12-30 and march to the Dail.  It has been poorly organised and advertised by the TU movement but everyone [...]

The September Issue of the Socialist Voice is out now.
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This article originally appeared in the August edition of Socialist Voice published by the Communist Party of Ireland. The first part appeared on ILR here. Click here to access the current edition of Socialist Voice.
Neo-liberalism with Irish characteristics
INDEED this is pointed in other ways. As we have outlined, the shift from labour to capital in [...]