WP of Ireland, WPI launches Anti-Austerity Treaty Referendum website

[Delenda Carthago]

The Workers’ Party of Ireland

48 Nth. Great Georges St, Dublin 1.

Tel (00 353 1) 8733916. Email: [email protected]

Monday, 14 May 2012


Anti-Austerity Treaty Referendum website launched

The Workers Party of Ireland's International Secretary, Gerry Grainger, has said the referendum to be held in Ireland on May 31st is an opportunity for working class people to reject the politics of austerity, and the policies of making working people suffer in order to rescue the capitalist system from itself.

The struggle in Ireland is the same one that communist and workers parties are fighting throughout Europe, and a decisive rejection of the Fiscal Compact Treaty in Ireland will represent a victory not just for the working class of Ireland but for workers throughout Europe.

The Workers Party of Ireland are campaigning strongly for a NO vote on May 31st.

We are mobilising our members to this end and are doing all we can with limited resources to ensure this happens.

Fraternal parties can follow our campaign through our dedicated campaign-website

www.workerseurope.ie
(http://www.workerseurope.ie)
www.facebook.com/workereurope
(http://www.facebook.com/workereurope)
twitter @workerseurope

Messages of support are very welcome and can be sent to [email protected]


Fraternally

Gerry Grainger
International Secretary
Workers Party of Ireland

[Prometeo liberado]

Good God when will people understand that austerity is a frontal attack on the working class!

[crazyirish93]

I swear there must be five or six parties with their own independent campaigns against the treaty at this stage i had not even heard of the workers party till now..learn something new every day also i am curious how can the KKE be affiliate of both the Communist party of Ireland and The workers party of Ireland i would think u could only officially support one.

[Delenda Carthago]

I swear there must be five or six parties with their own independent campaigns against the treaty at this stage i had not even heard of the workers party till now..learn something new every day also i am curious how can the KKE be affiliate of both the Communist party of Ireland and The workers party of Ireland i would think u could only officially support one.
There is no limitation to whom you are affiliated with. Historical reasons and politics of nowday create situations like that.

For example, KKE has noone close to in France, so it collaborates with some local groups of CPF that have resisted to eurocommunism and reformism. In Spain it used to have relations with CPE, but now it is very close with a small party that has a more clear line, PCPE. But its not like its an International, we are still in the period where we search for allies.

[Magdalen]

I swear there must be five or six parties with their own independent campaigns against the treaty at this stage i had not even heard of the workers party till now..learn something new every day also i am curious how can the KKE be affiliate of both the Communist party of Ireland and The workers party of Ireland i would think u could only officially support one.

The Workers' Party of Ireland are descended from the Marxist-orientated section of Sinn Féin which decided to embrace constitutional politics in 1970 (at that point they were the political wing of the Official IRA, which no longer exists). After holding a few seats in the twenty-six county Parliament during the 1980s (they were far less successful in the North), the majority of the party's representatives rejected Marxism following the collapse of the USSR and eventually merged with the Irish Labour Party. What's left of the WP now is essentially a rump, irrelevant organisation with a declining and ageing membership.

[crazyirish93]

The Workers' Party of Ireland are descended from the Marxist-orientated section of Sinn Féin which decided to embrace constitutional politics in 1970 (at that point they were the political wing of the Official IRA, which no longer exists). After holding a few seats in the twenty-six county Parliament during the 1980s (they were far less successful in the North), the majority of the party's representatives rejected Marxism following the collapse of the USSR and eventually merged with the Irish Labour Party. What's left of the WP now is essentially a rump, irrelevant organisation with a declining and ageing membership.

Thought as much considering i hadnt even heard of them i find it incredibly annoying that there is at least 4 party's of Marxist-Leninist ideology in ireland with no real differences as far as i can see.