The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
Week commencing 17th May 2019
The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
Week commencing 17th May 2019
THE continuing Brexit saga has, at least as far as the mainstream media is concerned, reduced the crisis in the north of Ireland to the question of the ‘back-stop’ and what the future relationship between the Six Counties, Britain and the European Union (EU) will be in the future. Whilst the absurdity of the Government being held to ransom by sectarian bigots has not escaped the notice of some of the bourgeois pundits, none of these gurus actually question the fundamental cause of the problem, which is the partition of Ireland by British imperialism.
The New Communist Party never believed that the Good Friday Agreement was an end in itself nor that common membership of the EU had effectively ended partition for all time.
The NCP welcomed the advances made under the historic 1998 Good Friday Agreement, the establishment of the Northern Ireland Executive and Assembly, and the overwhelming endorsement of the agreement in the all-Ireland 1999 referendum.
We call for a complete end to British interference in Irish affairs and any British state presence on Irish soil including civil, military, police or intelligence units. Ireland should cease to be a British ‘sphere of influence’.
We also call for an immediate end to the partition of Ireland, the withdrawal of all civil, police or military units from any foreign state, and the achievement of full national self-determination and sovereignty in a united Ireland. We believe that the Irish people have the right to use political or military means to achieve those goals, just as the British state realises its own interests in the same way.