As tens of thousands return to the streets for the first national Palestine march of 2026, this movement refuses to be sidelined or silenced, says PETER LEARY
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Covid-19 hastens the deepening structural crisis of the capitalist system
A statement from the COMMUNIST PARTY OF IRELAND
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
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THE Communist Party of Ireland expresses its solidarity with all those affected, and who will be affected, by this growing health crisis and to the health staff and emergency services on the front line.
The health services throughout the country, from Belfast to Cork, are wholly inadequate, having experienced more than a decade of harsh cuts, bed closures, lack of investment, staff shortages and the priority of private corporate medicine over a decent, well funded public health service.
The covid-19 health crisis exposes once again the immediate need for one all-Ireland public health service. The virus is not subject to partition and knows no borders.
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