Has the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) gone completely anti-communist?
Has the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) has gone completely anti-communist? There are numerous examples of the distractions and deviations of the Party but the address to the 22nd International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties in Havana leaves no room for doubt. Addressing the assembled delegates, the CPI delegate, apart from making some highly questionable claims about its strength of the Party and its range of activities, declared that:
“Finally, with our growth we have seen more women joining us, women who have brought with them their own expertise and experience. It is through these women that true change comes to our party and country, and through women that lasting social change happens in our society.
“The new world we build will be shaped with their hands and by their hearts and minds. It is their strength and dedication that leads us and will bring others to us. It is through them that capitalist and patriarchal thought will be pulled down alongside the economic structures that bind us.
“Our liberation will not be given to us, we must take it and we will. Let us build the unity of the international working class revolutionary movement.
“Unity is our strength, division is our enemy. Solidarity with the workers of the world. Victory to the working class.”
Apart from that statement being sexist, discriminatory, sectarian and divisive, it is essentially anti-communist.