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 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.
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