Abstract

The British Labor Report on Ireland

The report of the British Labor Party on "Irish Nationalism and Labor Internationalism," drafted by Bernard Shaw, was published in England in May, 1920, with a foreword by J. R. Clynés. The Irish policy of the Labor Party is necessarily wider than that of any of the native Irish nationalist parties, because labor is international. There may be the most violent opposition between the Irish nationalist arid the British imperialist as such; but the interests of the Irish worker and the British worker are the same; and it is with their interests as workers that the Labor Party is concerned. It recognizes as fully as the Irish people do that such relations must be free relations, that is, relations in which the national rights of the parties are fully established; but this condition is now accepted by the liberal sections of the capitalist parties, and is therefore not peculiar to the Labor Party, and not specially characteristic of it.