Rachel Hurley Roche

🚩 Todos los reaccionarios y fascistas, se camuflen o no, tendrán siempre a los y las comunistas en frente. Una misma clase, una misma bandera.

🔴Hands off the people’s homes! Housing is a right, not a commodity Europe is facing a deep and structural housing crisis that pushing the lives of millions of people across the continent to a dead end. Over the past decade, housing prices and rents have risen significantly faster than wages in the EU, pushing decent, affordable homes out of reach for workers and their families. Across the EU prices have risen dramatically, construction costs are rising while public investment in housing construction has sharply declined. According to official data, over the last decade (2015–2025) the housing market has become 63.6% more expensive, while rents have risen by at least 21.1%. More than 1.1 million people are homeless across the EU; 18 million people are facing severe housing deprivation; 75 million people are living in overcrowded conditions; 69 million people are living in substandard housing and over 64 million households are struggling with housing costs. These conditions leave young working-class people, people in temporary or seasonal employment, older persons living on fixed incomes and migrants particularly vulnerable. This has been created by political choices rather than natural forces. This is not a matter of scarcity, it is the direct consequence of capitalist priorities which encourage more profitable luxury housing and green standards with a dramatic increase in building materials. People’s housing is treated as a commodity, and in this context it is controlled by profit-driven construction groups, banks and funds. The evidence of swelling public housing waiting lists, overcrowded living conditions, and families forced to spend an unsustainable share of their income on rent, with thousands living in inadequate housing that lacks basic amenities, safety, comfort, or hygiene is a demonstration of the fundamental bankruptcy of the capitalist system. This growing problem cannot be resolved by the capitalist “market” or by state and EU housing programmes. Nor can the crisis be solved through the temporary relief measures promoted by the social democracy: rent subsidies, tax breaks, social housing and shelters for those evicted and so on. These measures respond to the need of the bourgeois governments to stop the class struggle and are, in fact, sometimes the result of concessions to the immediate struggles of the class, but they do not put a final resolution to the problem. EU state aid rules and the provisions of the EU Stability and Growth Pact which compel member states to limit their annual budget deficit to 3% of their GDP and their public debt to 60% of GDP worsen the already critical situation. At the same time these EU rules are often broken when it serves the capitalist classes of Europe, as in the case of militarisation. Housing is a human right. The resources, land, and capacity to guarantee that right exist but are constrained by a system committed to capitalist profit. A proper home requires habitability, affordability, accessibility, security, non-discrimination, and the ability to live in dignity. Stable and affordable housing is essential for access to employment, education, health services, and community life. The parties of the ECA demand a massive development of high-quality public housing; proper protection for tenants; strict regulation of rents; an end to evictions into homelessness; ending homelessness through guaranteed housing and measures against the policies supporting capitalist profitability. The parties of the ECA are at the forefront of the struggle against foreclosure auctions and the eviction of people from their primary residences and they stand in solidarity with affected households. They highlight that housing inequalities are inherent in, and the inevitable outcome of, an economic system based on private ownership, markets and the pursuit of profit giving rise to exploitation which can only be solved by its overthrow. Capitalism cannot provide for the needs of the people. Only under socialism will housing become a universal right rather than a commodity. eurcomact.org/m-article/Hand…

Workers are not machines, and today in Greece they shut the country down to send a clear message 👇 workerspartyyouth.ie/workers-are-no…

A significant victory for USB @usbsindacato and the dockworkers in Genoa and La Spezia. Thanks to their decisive stance and action, the ship Cosco Pisces will not unload the war material bound for Israel and the genocide of the Palestinian people. Its deadly cargo will be sent back to where it came from! Dockworkers in Europe, the Mediterranean, and elsewhere will not become accomplices of the murderous state of Israel and its allies—the USA, NATO, and the EU. They will not allow ports and infrastructure to become instruments of war for the slaughter of people by the imperialists. #FreePalestine

According to reports, Chris Smalls @Shut_downAmazon was subjected to brutal violence, choked and beaten by the Israeli Army. This is Israel, a terrorist state capable of committing any act of brutality. "The only democracy in the Middle East” and a "strategic ally" of the EU, US, NATO, and the Greek government, who all proudly “share common values” with it. They support and shield its crimes and atrocities by intensifying the repression, calumniating and brutalising workers, students and anyone who protests against the genocide of the Palestinian people and struggles for the just cause of a free and sovereign Palestinian State. Immediate and unconditional release of all #Handala prisoners. End now all support to the murderous state of Israel. #ChrisSmalls #FreePalestine

📺On the occasion of the World Refugee Day, June 20, we, the European Communist Action (ECA) member Parties, denounce the anti-people policies of bourgeois governments, which force millions of people to flee their countries 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=N-ql_w…

🇵🇸 Join Us in The Living Commons from 2-4PM to discuss the Palestinian Solidarity Movement and the current events in Gaza and West Bank from the perspective of the working class. 🚩 Donations to Palestinian Communist Youth Unions aid efforts in Gaza and West bank appreciated.

🔴 Communists in Greece block trucks with ammunition heading to Ukraine

Workers Party Youth remembers the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Italy. Also on our website workerspartyyouth.ie/liberation-of-…

March 8 was proclaimed as International Working Women's Day by the Second International Conference of Communist Women held in Moscow in June 1921. Working-class women live in a world of exploitation and inequality, expropriated labour,low wages and precarious and socially devalued work. They face, poverty, discrimination, harassment, problems in accessing healthcare, and are forced to confront the harsh consequences of repeated attacks on social security protections and the absence of free proper childcare facilities. Violencein every aspect of life, including interpersonal relationships or relationships within the family, subjects women and girls to physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering whilefemicide is a daily reality facing women. Millions of women are forced to live without protection of maternity and the female body or under laws severely restricting or prohibiting completely reproductive rights. Women continue to die from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth which are entirely preventable by proper care. Imperialism has a devastating impact on women’s lives and rights. Globally, sanctions, interventions and war, violence, displacement, migration, climate crisis and environmental destruction, poverty, economic exploitation, forced and unpaid labour, flexible labour relations, sexism, racism, lack of access to education, healthcare and the means to sustain a proper life, blight the lives of poor and working women. Millions of people are forcibly displaced or rendered refugees by war.In Gaza, of the recent massive death toll inflicted by Israel’s genocidal war, approximately 70% of the dead are women and children. While men and women can be victims of human trafficking, women and girls are disproportionately affected and make up the vast majority of the victims trafficked for sexual exploitation. The causes of trafficking arise from conditions of capitalist exploitation and include poverty, war and displacement. We express our solidarity with women who experience the consequences of state violence, obscurantist views, anachronistic practices, economic and social discrimination, who live in countries such as Afghanistan, Iran, but also as refugees and migrants in EU countries. These unacceptable practices and the righteous indignation that they arouse in women are being used to promote imperialist plans. The October Socialist Revolution gave rise to a new vision and prospects for the emancipation and independence of women.  The early communist women were clear in their understanding that working women can only win liberation by fighting for socialism and that the struggle to achieve political equality for proletarian women is an inseparable part of the overall class struggle of the proletariat. From the beginning communist women spoke out strongly against imperialist war for the peoples to live in peace. International Women’s Day remains an opportunity for communists to assess the contemporary challenges facing working women and to remember their struggles and achievements. The fundamental contradiction between those who own the means of production and those workers, male and female, who produce wealth by selling their labour remains a defining characteristic of capitalism. The oppression and exploitation of women cannot be abstracted from the material reality of class in a capitalist society. Class struggle remains the engine of social change and only socialism offers the prospect of emancipation for humankind, including the liberation of women. The reality declared at the Moscow Conference in 1921 remains valid. Only socialism-communism can save humanity, only socialism-communism guarantees women and the working-class emancipation from their age-long enslavement and oppression. eurcomact.org/m-article/ECA-…

NOW Athens Thousands of students and teachers flood the city demanding justice No more lives lost for the profits of the few #τεμπη_εγκλημα #τεμπη #απεργια #strike #huelga #greve #Τεμπη_συγκαλυψη

It is happening to international students, it is happening to Irish students, to families, and young workers. Not just men or women, but all being targeted for exploitation This depravity is enabled by a chaotic market, which has lead to total desperation. thejournal.ie/international-…

Today, January 27th, we remember the Roma and Sinti victims of the Holocaust 80 years on 🌹 On the weekend, Pavee Point colleagues from the Roma team took part in the Irish National Holocaust Commemoration Ceremony @he_ireland #NeverAgain

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🟡 NEW: German police brutally beat an elderly man unconscious during the annual communist Luxemburg-Liebknecht-Lenin protests in Berlin. Medics had to use an AED to resuscitate the victim. Video footage shows officers repeatedly striking the man in the head before he collapsed.

Shocking to think official homeless numbers are up to 15,199 when there are homes Felt strange chalking it earlier on this derelict building, with over 700 more in close proximity But as passer by says "its a lot more than that" #DerelictIreland Lower John St, Cork City, Ireland

"If you're killing the mother of your kids, you have just abused those children" David French calls for the introduction of new legislation to remove a person's guardianship if they kill their partner who they share children with. #RTÉUpfront | @rtenews

Disgraceful headline from Limerick Leader using the term "sugar daddy" to describe a man who sexually abused a 14 year old girl in hotels. The exchange of money and "gifts" does not mediate or lessen the crime of sexual exploitation of a child.

Good discussion tonight. Next topic and discussion opportunity likely to be taking place mid/end January 2025. Do get in touch if you'd like to be informed via DM.

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If, like many of us, you are concerned and confused by what is happening in Syria I would encourage you to attend this event tonight in Rebel Reads hosted by WP. There will be a reading of a brief text and opportunities for discussion to clarify and share ideas