Communist Party of Ireland

27/10/2026

25/10/2026

John Creedon remembering interactions with our Party earlier on RTE ✊

The Cork branch of the Communist Party of Ireland was re-constituted in 1982 bringing together a number of older Comrades who had been members since the 1940’s, others who had joined in the 1960’s and a number of younger comrades who had been members of the then CYM.

At the time, the Party was an integral part of a broad left grouping within the Cork Council of Trade Unions. It was deeply involved in left wing politics in Cork at the time and Noel Murphy was our candidate in 1980’s.

Although the party vote was small, the election campaign helped publicise the Party and its socialist perspective. Our Cork branch is active and you should join ✊

www.communistparty.ie

20/10/2026

Last week we had the pleasure of hosting back to back Connolly Conversations, with Shezana Hafiz Tommy McKearney and badbwoyroro, discussing criminaised solidarity and the new Red Scare, plus Eoghan O'Neill with Eugene McCarthy digging into the governments 2027 budget.

An incredible few days with more events in the pipeline over the next few months. Not to be missed!

15/10/2026

The Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) salutes the working people of Garvaghy Road and their many supporters. We also acknowledge the courageous stand taken by many within protestant community who stood up and supported the people of Garvaghy Road. The Orange Order does not represent nor speak for all protestants.

05/10/2026

STATEMENT BY THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF IRELAND

Anti-Fascism, Anti-Imperialism and International Solidarity

This weekend, Communist Party of Ireland were active in three arenas of working-class struggle: the community blockade of the Orange Order's sectarian march at Garvaghy Road; the 90th anniversary commemoration of the Cable Street anti-fascist blockade in London; and the Friends of Socialist China event marking the 77th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.

At Garvaghy Road, the Communist Party of Ireland stood with residents and anti-fascists against a sectarian Orange Order march imposed by the British state. The Parades Commission’s decision to authorise the march was a deliberate provocation. A mass blockade prevented the parade from passing. The banner “From Gaza to Garvaghy Road, resist occupation and fascism” expressed the unity of these struggles.

In London, Irish communists joined thousands marking the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, where 100,000 people blocked Mosley’s fascists in 1936. Communists were central to that victory, and the CPI was proud to march again under banners reading “1936 they did not pass. 2026 they will not pass” and “From Cable Street to Garvaghy Road, smash fascism.”

The CPI also supported and participated in the Friends of Socialist China conference, the third annual Socialist China Conference. CPI National Executive delegate Gearóid Ó Machail addressed the event, reaffirming fraternal relations with the Communist Party of China and our commitment to anti-imperialist solidarity. The conference opposed the new cold war and the threat of hot war, and highlighted the achievements of Chinese socialism.

28/09/2026

The Industrial Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland encourages the labour movement to remain strong on the following items:

1. There must be a real pay increase for members protecting workers and their families against inflation.

2. Unmet commitments under the previous agreement should be honoured. The union movement must not accept a demand for industrial peace while local bargaining claims remain unresolved.

3. Pay negotiations should not become a blank cheque for the Government on labour deployment, restructuring and/or change. The labour movement should consent to no changes affecting jobs, staffing levels, workloads, working locations, professional standards or established conditions without specific prior negotiation and collective agreement. Unions should demand the necessary funding for public services and an end to creeping privatisation.

4. Unions need to steel themselves to challenge the inevitable arguments from the Establishment about the constraints of the government’s fiscal space. Fiscal space is not a politically neutral quantity. It is shaped by decisions about public expenditure, tax reductions, tax reliefs and which forms of income and wealth the State chooses to tax or leave untaxed.

26/09/2026

The Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) today participated in a solidarity protest outside the British Embassy in Dublin, standing with the residents of Garvaghey Road in their opposition to a sectarian Orange Order march through their neighbourhood.

The protest, organised as an emergency solidarity action, brought together socialists, republicans, and trade unionists. It followed the Parades Commission's decision on Friday to grant permission for the Orange Order to march along the mainly nationalist Garvaghey Road for the first time in 28 years. The decision has been met with fury and disbelief by residents, who have lived in peace for nearly three decades since the last such confrontation.

Speaking from the protest outside the embassy, a CPI spokesperson said:

"The Communist Party of Ireland stands in full solidarity with the working-class people of Garvaghey Road and Portadown. The Orange Order is not a cultural organisation — it is a reactionary wing of British imperialism in Ireland, historically used to divide the working class along sectarian lines and to prop up the sectarian Orange state. The Parades Commission's decision to force this coat-trailing march through a community that has overwhelmingly rejected it is a reckless provocation, designed to drag us back to the murder and mayhem of the 1990s."

The Garvaghy Road Residents' Coalition has mounted a legal challenge against the Parades Commission's determination, which was heard at Belfast High Court on Saturday morning. Over 4,000 local residents have signed a petition opposing the march.

The CPI reaffirms its opposition to sectarianism in all its forms and calls on working people across Ireland — Protestant, Catholic, and dissenter — to unite against the common enemy of British imperialism and the capitalist class that profits from division. The struggle of Garvaghey Road is the struggle of the entire Irish working class against British imperialist attempts to divide and conquer our people

25/09/2026

On Saturday September 12th, the comrades of the Betty Sinclair branch and the Peadar O’Donnell Forum organised an Autumn school, Exploring Sovereignty in an Imperialist Context. After a morning commemoration of the brave Donegal men who went to fight for the Spanish republican by joining the International Brigade in An Machaire (Maghery), everyone was welcomed in Scioból an Phobail in Anagaire for a talk on sovereignty and what this can mean in the Irish context.

The Autumn School was well attended by local activists and Socialist Republicans and some comrades from around Ireland.

We were thankful to welcome these four formidable speakers: Yas Rodriguez, Tommy McKearney , Eoghan O Neill and Fearghal MacBhloscaidh.

The panel grappled with urgent questions facing small nations like Ireland: How can genuine sovereignty be achieved in an era of military blocs, economic coercion, and globalised capital? And what can today’s movements learn from Peadar O’Donnell’s generation of internationalists?

To close the school, we also had CATU’s own Darragh Power playing music.

22/09/2026

Delegation from the Communist Party of Ireland attend National Liberation Day at the Chinese Embassy in Dublin 22nd Sept