A top Communist Party of Britain trade union organiser has pledged to continue advancing class politics across the wider British labour movement regardless of the Scottish referendum result.

“The Communist Party will continue to work with the left and the labour movement to emphasise the need for class politics in Scotland and across the rest of Britain,” Anita Halpin told the party’s political committee late on Wednesday.

The party trade union organiser said it was essential to implement the majority decision of the Scottish people “in a spirit of goodwill, mutual respect and co-operation.”

But she cautioned: “The referendum result will not alter the reality that the Scottish and British economy is controlled by giant monopoly capitalist corporations and dominated by financial interests concentrated in the City of London.”

Whether as an independent country or part of Britain with enhanced powers of self-government, Scotland would still be subject to EU and Nato treaties and policies.

Ms Halpin paid tribute to Scottish communists and their allies for raising such issues during the referendum campaign.

And she emphasised Communist Party calls for a federalised Britain with parliaments for Scotland and Wales, a legislative chamber for England, a Cornish assembly and elected regional assemblies.

But Ms Halpin warned that institutional change alone would not meet people’s needs without a “united labour movement backing the People’s Assembly and leading the challenge to big business.”

A special session on national and constitutional questions will take place at the Communist Party’s 53rd congress in November.