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CP general secretary Robert Griffiths giving the opening address to the 57th Congress
“THERE is no bigger priority for our party than to build support for the Palestinian people,” Communist Party international secretary Kevan Nelson declared at the party’s 57th Congress today.
Moving an emergency resolution on the crisis in Gaza, Mr Nelson called on the party to build “union solidarity and direct action as we’ve seen in Belgium and Italy, support boycott, divestment and sanctions, mobilise medical aid – and force a change in the position of the British government and its Labour lackeys.”
Mr Nelson warned that the British state was increasingly cracking down on protests in solidarity with Palestine. “Only this morning a demonstration at the Israeli embassy was banned under the Public Order Act.”
As antisemitism grows, the labour movement must recommit to defence of minorities while navigating the complexities of Gaza and global politics, argues NICK WRIGHT
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
On International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, HUGH LANNING warns that the US-led “Comprehensive Plan” entrenches decades of Western complicity in Israel’s domination and denial of Palestinian land and rights
MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS explains how Britain’s largest union is putting pressure on the British government to recognise the Palestinian state and end its complicity with Israel’s murderous actions