CPI Website.

[eamo]

http://www.communistpartyofireland.ie/

[Holly]

Ever since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Communism is in demise. An insightful theory was ruined for all time by its followers.

[C. Flower]

http://www.communistpartyofireland.ie/

Thanks for posting.

Has someone rushed down to SIPO yet, with the donations form filled in ?

[eamo]

Has someone rushed down to SIPO yet, with the donations form filled in ?

I got a feeling I am going to make an ejit of meself asking this, o well, not the first time.

What or who is SIPO

[C. Flower]

I got a feeling I am going to make an ejit of meself asking this, o well, not the first time.

What or who is SIPO

That could explain a things

http://www.politicalworld.org/showth...highlight=SIPO

[eamo]

That could explain a things

http://www.politicalworld.org/showth...highlight=SIPO

AAAAAGH!! I even googled "SIPO" and saw the "standards in public office" but did not connect the two

[Sam Lord]

They have a great national debt clock. Can we get one for here?

The photo of them at weekend party school is cute. Maybe they should just send the names and addresses to the Gardai while they are at it.

[C. Flower]

AAAAAGH!! I even googled "SIPO" and saw the "standards in public office" but did not connect the two

I'm assuming that the lack of paperwork is an oversight. Why would they be sending the Gardaí after the CPI, and not after FG and Labour who declared zero declarable donations ?

[Eugene]

COMMUNIST PARTY OF IRELAND


MESSAGE OF SOLIDARITY

7 July 2012

The Communist Party of Ireland expresses its solidarity with TDs who operate under the banner of the United Left Alliance and to all members and supporters of the ULA at this time. We understand full well the nature of the attacks being carried out by the anti-working-class, anti- union Independent News and Media, by other sections of the mass media, and by sections of the political establishment. Our party has been on the receiving end of such attacks for more than ninety years.

These attacks and attempts to undermine left forces should serve to remind everyone that there is no such thing as “free” or “independent” national media, nor are Dáil Éireann and its truncated structures immune from or above class struggle. The attacks now under way against sections of the ULA must be seen as attacks on all the left, just as anti-communism and its use as a political weapon by either the left or the right is an attack on all the left.

The attacks on the ULA are just part of the continuous offensive against working people and should serve as a salutary reminder, if that is needed, and a warming that every action is monitored and every misdemeanour will be used to corral all expressions of opposition into the narrow rut that the establishment has constructed in relation to what is democratic and what is acceptable and unacceptable behaviour.

[Sam Lord]

Since when did communists view Trotskyites as part of the left? Have they not been traditionally considered the 5th Column of the bourgeoisie in the working class movement? That's what I was taught when I was young anyway.

[Baron von Biffo]

COMMUNIST PARTY OF IRELAND


MESSAGE OF SOLIDARITY

7 July 2012

The Communist Party of Ireland expresses its solidarity with TDs who operate under the banner of the United Left Alliance and to all members and supporters of the ULA at this time. We understand full well the nature of the attacks being carried out by the anti-working-class, anti- union Independent News and Media, by other sections of the mass media, and by sections of the political establishment. Our party has been on the receiving end of such attacks for more than ninety years.

These attacks and attempts to undermine left forces should serve to remind everyone that there is no such thing as “free” or “independent” national media, nor are Dáil Éireann and its truncated structures immune from or above class struggle. The attacks now under way against sections of the ULA must be seen as attacks on all the left, just as anti-communism and its use as a political weapon by either the left or the right is an attack on all the left.

The attacks on the ULA are just part of the continuous offensive against working people and should serve as a salutary reminder, if that is needed, and a warming that every action is monitored and every misdemeanour will be used to corral all expressions of opposition into the narrow rut that the establishment has constructed in relation to what is democratic and what is acceptable and unacceptable behaviour.

A timely reminder of why the CPI ranks behind Jedward in terms of relevance to Irish political thought.

[C. Flower]

COMMUNIST PARTY OF IRELAND


MESSAGE OF SOLIDARITY

7 July 2012

The Communist Party of Ireland expresses its solidarity with TDs who operate under the banner of the United Left Alliance and to all members and supporters of the ULA at this time. We understand full well the nature of the attacks being carried out by the anti-working-class, anti- union Independent News and Media, by other sections of the mass media, and by sections of the political establishment. Our party has been on the receiving end of such attacks for more than ninety years.

These attacks and attempts to undermine left forces should serve to remind everyone that there is no such thing as “free” or “independent” national media, nor are Dáil Éireann and its truncated structures immune from or above class struggle. The attacks now under way against sections of the ULA must be seen as attacks on all the left, just as anti-communism and its use as a political weapon by either the left or the right is an attack on all the left.

The attacks on the ULA are just part of the continuous offensive against working people and should serve as a salutary reminder, if that is needed, and a warming that every action is monitored and every misdemeanour will be used to corral all expressions of opposition into the narrow rut that the establishment has constructed in relation to what is democratic and what is acceptable and unacceptable behaviour.

Is the CPI saying the ULA has carried out misdemeanours ? I'm really not clear as to what this statement means in terms of what is and isn't acceptable for TDs to do.

[Baron von Biffo]

Is the CPI saying the ULA has carried out misdemeanours ?

Are you suggesting they didn't?

[C. Flower]

Are you suggesting they didn't?

I've given my view. I'm trying to understand the CPI position on this.