And So, Don't come on me.

Don't count on me.

Don't count on me. Good morning to listeners to the Red Nation podcast. My name is Eugene McCarton and in General

Secretary of the Communist Party of Ireland and I would like to take this opportunity

to thank the producers of Red Nation for this opportunity to

speak about a number of questions that they posed to me

with regards to Ireland and also to Brexit.

The first thing I'd like to say is that the Commerce Party of Ireland is an

Northern organisation. It was founded in 1921. It grew out of the struggle for Irish independence and also the big social and political struggles of the early part of the 20th century here in Ireland. So it's got a long

we will celebrate our 100th anniversary in 2021.

The Comps Party as I say it is a working-class organization. It is all Ireland,

it is people in Belfast, Delhi, right down to the south of the country.

So it is an organization that does not recognize partition and continues to struggle against British colonialism and for the unity and independence of our country.

The first thing I'd like to talk about is the question of Brexit.

I know that it appears to be complex, confusing, and the way it is presented by both Irish media and internationally.

The Brexit came about because of a referendum in June 23rd of June 2016.

It was called by Cameron the British Prime Minister at the time, to resolve what he saw was an ongoing

and tenure battle inside the British Conservative Party of the question of membership or a continued membership

of what was then the European Union and currently the European Union was then the EEC. Britain joined the EEC, the European Economic Community in 1973,

along with the Republic of Ireland and Denmark. But within Britain itself there's always been a very much

a significant number of people who have consistently opposed membership of the European economic EEC or the EU as it is now.

That has been a consistent foreign in particular within the British Conservative Party.

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