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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

11/09/2026

Donegal's revolutionary writer, trade unionist, and internationalist.

Peadar O'Donnell (1893–1986) was born in the Donegal Gaeltacht and spent his life fighting for a better world—from the War of Independence and the Anti-Treaty IRA, to the Spanish Civil War, to his lifelong solidarity with anti-colonial movements across the globe.

Tomorrow, 12th September, we honour the man himself at the Peadar O'Donnell Autumn School in Anagaire, Co. Donegal.

📍 Scioból an Phobail, Mín na Craoibhe, Anagaire
12:00 – International Brigade Monument, Machaire
14:00 – ‘The Cuban Experience’ + Panel Discussion
16:00 – Seisiún Ceoil

Fáilte roimh chách. All welcome.

10/09/2026

The Communist Party of Ireland welcomes one of the speakers to the Paedar O' Donnell Autumn School, September 12th in Anagaire, Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh.

He is Senior Lecturer in History at St. Mary’s University, Belfast and the author of two previous monographs on the revolutionary period in Ireland, Fenians and Ribbonmen and Tyrone: The Irish Revolution. Originally from East Tyrone, he taught for ten years at Coláiste Feirste, the largest Irish-language secondary school on the Island and makes frequent contributions to historical television documentaries and news programmes. He was previously a Research Fellow at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

09/09/2026

The stakes could not be higher. If the Triple Lock is scrapped we are one step closer to Ireland becoming a 32 county NATO outpost. People of military age in Ireland will be sent to fight and die in imperialist wars for the axis of genocide. Our public services and infrastructure gutted to meet NATOs 5% military spending demand.

We must fight to save the Triple Lock, to save the last protection stopping us becoming fully integrated into the US-led imperialist war machine. We must organise to take back power from the capitalist class whose interest is advanced at every turn by the immiseration and early death of the working people of Ireland.

04/09/2026

Join us in the heart of the Donegal Gaeltacht on Saturday, 12th September for a day of radical politics, history, and culture.

Venue: Scioból an Phobail, Mín na Craoibhe, Anagaire

12:00 – Commemoration at the International Brigade Monument, An Machaire (Maghery) with Cllr. Mac Giolla Easbuig.
14:00 – The Cuban Experience, followed by the main event: Panel Discussion: The Struggle for Sovereignty in an Imperialist World chaired by Eddie Glackin (Feat. Tommy McKearney, Eoghan O Neill & Fearghal MacBhloscaidh).
16:00 – Seisiún Ceoil with Darragh Power.

Honouring the legacy of Peadar O’Donnell, we connect the struggles of Spain and Cuba to the fight for Irish sovereignty today.

07/08/2026

Leis an bhFleadh Cheoil agus Féile an Phobail ag teacht le chéile i mBéal Feirste an tseachtain seo, tá an chathair i lár an athbheochana Gaeleach nua. Chun machnamh a dhéanamh ar seo agus chun dul níos doimhne isteach san ábhar, thugamar cuireadh don údar agus don ghníomhaí cearta teanga, Fergal Mac Ionnrachtaigh, agus do bhainisteoir Kneecap agus CCO Bohemians, Daniel Lambert, plé a dhéanamh ar an gcaoi a bhfuil an cultúr ina láthair chatha d'Éirinn fhorásach.

Míle buíochas le gach duine a tháinig ann agus a chuir leis an bplé bríomhar ar dhúchasacht, cultúr na hóige, nasc leis an dtalamh agus conas ár bpobail a chosaint ó thionchair na heite deise de chuid SAM agus na Breataine.
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With the overlapping Fleadh Cheoil and Féile an Phobail in Belfast this week, the city is at the centre of the new Celtic revival. To reflect this and dig deeper into the topic, we invited author and language rights activist Fergal Mac Ionnrachtaigh, and Kneecap manager and Bohemians CCO, Daniel Lambert, to discuss how culture is a battlefield for a progressive Ireland.

Many thanks to everyone that made it along and contributed to a vibrant discussion on indigeneity, youth culture, connections to land and protecting our communities from US and British right wing influences.

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