Communist Party of Ireland

11/04/2026

11/04/2026

Statement on fuel protests 11/04

11/04/2026

Statement on current events regarding the fuel protests!

08/04/2026

We support those who have mobilised in response to escalating cost of energy & fuel. The protests reflect a growing recognition that the burden of this crisis is being placed on working people. The high prices faced by households are not incidental. They are the direct outcome of a dependent economic model & a political establishment subordinated to the strategic interests & permanent wars of US & EU imperialism.

The political & economic strategies pursued by this & previous Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael-dominated governments have left us deeply exposed to the economic, political, and military strategies of global monopolies.

Our people are already reeling under some of the highest energy costs in Europe, resulting from the NATO proxy war against Russia. This has been compounded by the government’s decision to slavishly follow the EU’s failed Ukraine strategy, which has driven up energy prices & deepened dependency on expensive fuel imports from the United States.

Once again, they have placed the interests of the US & EU ahead of the needs the people.

Over decades, they have handed over our oil & gas resources, from Kinsale in the Celtic Sea to the Corrib gas field, to global energy corporations, abandoning any serious prospect of energy sovereignty & failing to protect our people.

In return for these acts of betrayal by our ruling class, our people are forced to pay global energy prices.

The strategy of the ruling class has been, and remains, the maintenance of its relationship with imperial blocs at the direct expense of the Irish people.

This subservience to US, EU, & British imperial centres is reflected in the government’s muted criticism of the genocide in Gaza & its silence on the unprovoked war carried out by the US & Israel against Iran. Maintaining alignment with imperialism is prioritised over opposing its illegal wars & acts of genocide.

The left must organise, campaign and mobilise to defend neutrality & the Triple Lock.

We must be to the fore in demanding a radical social and economic strategy to secure national energy and food sovereignty.

https://communistparty.ie/en/2026/04/decades-of-bad-politics-are-now-bearing-bitter-fruit/

05/04/2026

The Communist Party of Ireland participated in a number of commemorations across the country to celebrate the 110th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising against British occupation.

26/03/2026

Today a CPI delegation attended the opening of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam first embassy in Dublin. Fifty eight years to the day the first major anti-Viet Nam war demonstration took place in Dublin. The CPI had a meeting with the Deputy Foreign Minister.

08/03/2026

Happy International Working Womens Day ✊

07/03/2026

Communists Celebrate Revolutionary Legacy of Working Women

Activists and comrades gathered at Conway Mill in Belfast on Saturday for an inspiring International Working Women’s Day event, organised by the Betty Sinclair Branch of the Communist Party of Ireland. The theme, Women Under Imperialism: A Revolutionary Legacy and Modern Perspective, drew a strong crowd to hear a panel of speakers link the struggles of the past to the fight for liberation today.

The event drew particular inspiration from Belfast revolutionary Mary Ann McCracken, celebrating her legacy as an abolitionist and champion of women’s rights. Chaired by Éilís Ní Mháirtín (CPI Dublin Branch Chair), the panel featured powerful contributions from Amy Margaret (Lasair Dhearg/CATU) on grassroots community struggle, Rose Gray (SOAS) on the internationalist perspective, and Yas Rodriguez on Cuban and Palestinian solidarity.

The event underscored that the fight for women’s rights is inseparable from the fight against imperialism and for Irish reunification. Ní Saoirse go Saoirse na mBan.

05/03/2026

🗣️ Public Meeting
🗓️ Sat, March 7th
🕜 2.30pm
📍 Conway Mill, Belfast, BT132DE

Speakers: Yas Rodriguez, Patricia Campbell, Amy Margaret, Rose Gray.
Chair: Éilis Ní Mháirtin

Join us in reclaiming Women's Day ✊

International Working Women's Day (IWWD) traces its origins to the labour movements of Europe and North America in the early 20th century. At the 1910 International Conference of Socialist Women in Copenhagen, Clara Zetkin proposed the annual celebration of a day dedicated to women's struggle for equality and emancipation.

Every economic system in the past—slavery, feudalism, and capitalism—has been founded on the exploitation of one class by another. Invariably, women are the most exploited in every system that has existed.

The World Inequality Report (WIR) states that globally, women earn only one-third of all labour income. When unpaid domestic labour is factored in, women continue to work longer hours than men across the world. They not only work more hours but are also paid less. This unpaid domestic work creates barriers to opportunities in the formal labour market, deepening gender inequality. 

As it does with all revolutionary traditions, capitalism attempts to empty International Working Womens Day of its class content. It transforms this day into a commercial opportunity, a means to sell commodities and generate profit, obscuring the radical history and struggle from which it was born. The working class has a duty to reclaim International Working Women's Day. We must remind ourselves of the monumental achievements of women in the movement toward socialism and stand together in the struggle to create a peaceful new world—one without any form of oppression: class, gender, race, or caste.

Socialism is impossible without women's liberation, and women's liberation is impossible without socialism.

01/03/2026

Allianz Out!
Condemnation of the GAA Leadership's Complicity

The actions of Uachtarán Jarlath Burns and the GAA hierarchy at the recent Congress in Croke Park constitute a shameful betrayal of the Association's founding principles. By defending the sponsorship of Allianz—a corporation directly implicated in profiting from the genocide in Gaza—the leadership has chosen blood money over solidarity.

Burns' attempt to equate the peaceful protest by Gaels Against Genocide with an "illegal occupation" of Croke Park is a grotesque insult. To use the trauma of Ireland's own history of occupation not as a basis for solidarity with the Palestinian people, but as a shield to defend a corporation funding a contemporary apartheid regime, represents a profound moral failure.

From a socialist perspective, there can be no neutrality in the face of imperialism. Allianz is a giant of finance capital, identified by a UN rapporteur for purchasing Israeli war bonds and facilitating the occupation. When the GAA leadership hides behind bureaucratic "process" to avoid taking a stand, they are not being apolitical—they are actively siding with the oppressor.

The GAA belongs to the Irish people, built on community and resistance, not to German multinationals profiting from slaughter. The hierarchy's defence of this relationship is an indefensible capitulation to the logic of imperialism.

The Communist Party of Ireland condemns Burns and the GAA hierarchy in the strongest possible terms. The relationship with Allianz must be severed immediately.

Allianz Out 👎
Free Palestine 🇵🇸

28/02/2026

End the aggression against Iran 🚫

Communist Party of Ireland Statement

21/02/2026

🇨🇺Since 1962 the US has illegally blocked Cuba from trading with any other country. This month the US has Cuba under siege, stopping any country sending any oil to Cuba.

🇵🇸Just like the genocide in Gaza this is a manufactured crisis that causing famine in Cuba and deliberately designed & cheered on by Imperialist forces.