🇨🇺 Cuba has once again brought a draft resolution to the United Nations General Assembly calling for an end to the economic, commercial, and financial blockade unjustly imposed upon it by the United States of America. The decades-long blockade constitutes a blatant attempt by the United States to strangle Cuba for refusing to bow and instead pursuing the path of sovereignty and socialism. In January, the United States increased its efforts by imposing what is effectively an energy blockade on the island nation, as well as by targeting third parties with sanctions for supplying energy to Cuba. The UN General Assembly has consistently voted against the blockade over the course of the last 34 years. This includes as recently as 2025, when over 160 countries supported a resolution calling for its end. Despite the overwhelming international opinion, the United States has opted instead to double down. Cuba ought to have the right to exercise its sovereignty without the interference of the United States. Solidarity with the resilient Cuban people.

🪖🇮🇪 Workers' Party members were out on Talbot Street in Dublin this weekend talking to people about Irish neutrality. 3️⃣🔒 Abandoning the Triple Lock will see Irishmen and Irishwomen fighting and dying abroad in imperialist wars for NATO and the EU. This does not serve the interests of Ireland, the Irish working class, or global peace. The Triple Lock must be maintained.

❌️ 🪖 📃 The Dáil has passed the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2026 at its second stage; a piece of legislation designed to abandon the Triple Lock. This is another shameful betrayal of the will of the Irish people, a political tradition that predates the state, and the long-standing policy of Irish neutrality. Abandoning the Triple Lock is designed to move the state away from engaging with peacekeeping based on international consensus — something which, up until now, has contributed to a reputation of trustworthiness abroad — in favour of cosying up to NATO and European military initiatives. The price for a pat on the head from the warmongers of Washington, Brussels, and London will be paid in the blood of Irishmen and Irishwomen. They will be sent abroad to fight and die not for the cause of peace but imperialism and profit. A key talking point from the government centres around replacing the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon with a European Union alternative. The reality, however, is that such a mission would essentially serve as a European intervention in support of Israel's occupation of Lebanon by attempting to disarm resistance forces. This would constitute a major divergence from the role played by Irish peacekeepers for which they are widely held in high regard. Scraping the Triple Lock has nothing to do with defending Ireland. It is a distraction from the ongoing recruitment and retention crisis owing to poor pay and conditions within the Defence Forces. A key example is the inability of the Irish Naval Service to deploy more than half of its eight-ship fleet due to manpower shortages. Minister for Defence Helen McEntee recently announced that the personnel target of 11,500 for 2028 would not be achieved. This is what the government should be addressing in terms of defence. The argument that abandoning the Triple Lock is somehow about ensuring that Russia or China cannot veto Irish peacekeeping efforts through the UN Security Council doesn't wash. Under the Triple Lock, a resolution from the UN General Assembly approving — not even just itself establishing — such missions suffices to send Irish troops abroad. It is not too late for politicians to do the right thing. The bill must pass further stages before it becomes law. In any case, the Irish people must stand against this attempt to abandon our neutrality. It is not in the interest of the Irish working class, the defence of Ireland, or the cause of peace for Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, and their lackeys to throw out the Triple Lock.

🚩 🇮🇪 🗣 This past weekend, the Workers’ Party held our 2026 Ard Fheis in Dublin. The Ard Fheis is the supreme governing and legislative body of the party. Branches from around the country sent delegates to debate and plan as we continue to work for a 32-county socialist republic in a better world. Additionally, a new Ard Comhairle — the supreme governing body of the party outside of Ard Fheiseanna — was elected. It is set to hold its inaugural meeting in the coming weeks. Michael McCorry was also reelected as Workers’ Party President. The Workers’ Party seeks a socialist and united Ireland, where the working class holds state power and can act as the masters of our own destiny. This requires building a party for and of the working class. With your help, the Workers’ Party can be that party.

United we bargain, divided we beg.

📸 🪧 Some photos from the pickets during today's massive public sector strike. Up the workers! ✊🏻🚩

✊🏻🚩 Up to 400,000 public sector workers took to the picket lines today in the largest strike seen in Ireland for almost 20 years. Nurses, doctors, dentists, paramedics, firefighters, teachers, civil servants, and plenty more are fighting for a fair public sector pay deal. The government must come to the table with a deal that beats inflation and allows for working people to live in comfort and dignity. Workers keep the world turning. The government must recognise and respect that. Up the workers.

"Management are asking workers to work from home for their benefit, not for ours. So it’s very important that we stand together, stay strong, and don’t pass the picket from your kitchen table." thejournal.ie/public-sector-…

The decision to withdraw permission from the Orange Order to parade on the Garvaghy Road in Portadown is the correct one. No good could have come from allowing the parade to proceed. Indeed, the reemergence of the dispute has only dragged up memories of death, assault, and harassment for residents. More broadly, it has served as a shameful but unsurprising attempt by the Orange Order to provoke and further polarise a society that is still largely divided. The Parades Commission, the courts, police, and the Secretary of State have found themselves complicit by allowing this latest iteration of the dispute to drag out over the course of the past fortnight. It is unfortunately telling of a lack of progress achieved in the north of Ireland since the Good Friday Agreement that the intervention of a British Secretary of State was required for sense to be seen, rather than the decision being taken locally. This takes place at a time when Stormont remains in deadlock over the budget. The mechanisms put in place after 1998 may have achieved a relative level of peace, but almost three decades later, society is not where it should be and working people are still left wanting. It is our hope that this latest decision will bring the ongoing dispute in Portadown to a lasting and peaceful end. It is clear, however, that much work remains to be done in the name of political progress in the north of Ireland.

🇮🇪🤝🏻🇵🇸 A crowd of over 10,000 people marched in Dublin today in solidarity with Palestine, marking three years of Israel's latest genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people. The people of Palestine have the right to resist occupation and genocide. It is imperative that the people of the world stand with them. Stop the genocide. Free Palestine.

Despite widespread concerns over animal welfare, the greyhound racing industry will receive over €20 million in funding for the first time in 2027. Figures obtained by Greyhound Action Ireland show that roughly two-thirds of retired racing greyhounds born in 2021 and 2022 were dead by April 2026. This follows a 2019 RTÉ Investigates documentary, which highlighted the killing of dogs deemed to be below the standard required for racing. Treating animals so poorly is evidently incentivised by the free market, spurred on by the government allocating even greater amounts of taxpayer money to it than before. The increase is part of a €2.9 million addition to the greyhound and horse racing fund, which will reach a total of €102 million in 2027; an increase of 21% over 6 years. This total figure is more than the government has allocated to supporting domestic and sexual abuse initiatives. By way of sports comparisons, League of Ireland football academies, a hurling and camogie development initiative, and the Gaelic Players Association have been promised just an extra €1 million each. The Irish Rugby Football Union will receive only €500,000 for its women’s and girl’s development strategy. More broadly, funding for the DEIS Plus scheme has increased by €2 million, Town and Village Renewal Scheme will go up by the same, while prisoner rehabilitation has received an extra €2.9 million. Even leaving aside concerns of animal welfare or poorly-planned priorities, the economic benefit of greyhound racing is questionable. The cited contributions of greyhound racing to the Irish economy rely heavily on figures supplied by Greyhound Racing Ireland itself. Public money could be spent in countless other ways that would better serve the Irish people, rather than on propping up an industry that raises such grave concerns.

✉️ Amidst the ongoing parade dispute in Portadown, the Police Service of Northern Ireland has begun to issue interview letters to individuals, including elected representatives and political activists, concerning their presence at the ongoing protest on the Garvaghy Road. It is disappointing but, given their history, not surprising that police would attempt to pressure protesters engaging in an act of peaceful civil disobedience. This comes following calls from unionist politicians for arrests to be made. The legacy of police involvement regarding this dispute is a shameful one, owing to their assault and harassment of residents along the Garvaghy Road in the past, nevermind their failure to protect from the same. Police should be protecting the community, not pressuring it into silence. The right to peacefully protest cannot be set aside to satisfy unionist demands. It will not be silenced by interview letters.

⚽️ ❌️ Regardless of the scoreline come the full-time whistle tonight, Ireland will lose so long as they line out against genocidal Israel in Serbia. The Irish government, the FAI, UEFA, and FIFA will all have failed the people of Ireland, they will have failed football, and they will have failed the just cause of the Palestinian people. Save for a very unlikely — yet still entirely possible — eleventh hour boycott by the players, tonight's fixture will go down as the second game of shame. The message remains the same as it did when the draw was first made. Stand on the right side of history. Don't play ball with genocide. #StopTheGame

🪧 Over 100,000 public sector workers are undertaking industrial action over pay and the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, as many began work-to-rule action this week, more are set to do so next week, and strike days are scheduled for later this month. It is rich that Jack Chambers, the Minister for Public Expenditure, has claimed that industrial action will lead to “disruption across our public services" when it is the government's refusal to address pay measures from the outset that has led us to this point. If the labour of these workers is so vital — and there should be no doubt that it is — their pay must match that. The onus is on the government to recognise this and make it a reality. Public sector workers are right to undertake industrial action in order to secure better livelihoods.

"We will not allow them to dictate our symbols, propound historical revisionism, erase our political identity, or obstruct our efforts to organise students for a 32-county Irish socialist republic and improve living conditions." universitytimes.ie/2026/09/e…