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CPI's McCartan calls on labour movement to 'step up the struggle for an Irish exit' from the EU
IRISH communist leader Eugene McCartan urged the labour movement at the weekend to “step up the struggle for an Irish exit” from the European Union.
Writing in the November issue of Socialist Voice, the Communist Party of Ireland general secretary noted that the organised labour movement had spent the last 40 years “cosying up to the EU, selling it to Irish workers as the ‘protector of workers’ rights’ and in the process receiving funds from the EU for education and training.”
Mr McCartan said that leaving the EU was essential because “our interests as a people, and in particular the interests of the working class, will never be served by the EU and its institutions.”
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