''The Irish Worker's Voice'' is an official newspaper of the

Communist Party of Ireland The Communist Party of Ireland (CPI; ga, Páirtí Cumannach na hÉireann) is an all-Ireland Marxist–Leninist communist party, founded in 1933 and re-founded in 1970. It rarely contests elections and has never had electoral success. The part ...

(CPI). The paper is published weekly on and off by the various guises under which the Communist party of Ireland was constituted. The first issue was on the 4th of April 1931Communist Party of Ireland History
/ref> initially published by the

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and edited by Tom Bell, the paper was relaunched when the

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government fell in March 1932, with Brian O'Neill as editor. The paper became the publication of the Communist Party of Ireland founded in 1933. The paper was named the Irish Workers' Voice to distinguish it from Jim Larkin's ''

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''. The Irish Worker along with other left wing and republican newspapers were banned in Northern Ireland in 1940. In 1941, ''The Irish Workers' Voice'' was edited by O'Neill, but the paper folded that year when the Communist Party of Ireland split and ceased to function, as the Soviet Union came into the Second World War. In 1949 following re-establishment of the Communist party as the

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(IWL) the paper was relaunched. Following the merger of the IWL and the

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the paper continued as the publication of the southern party in Dublin while ''Unity'' was published by the Belfast office. In 2003 the Communist Party of Ireland launched the ''

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'' as a monthly publication of the party from Dublin.

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