“Sooner or later, the crimes of imperialism overseas return to persecute and punish those who challenge them at home”, Robert Griffiths told the Communist Party’s Political Committee on Tuesday (7 October 2025).

He was condemning Britain’s collaboration with US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza as talks opened in Sharm el-Sheikh to agree President’s Trump plan for the future of Palestinian territories illegally occupied by Israel.

In return for a ceasefire and exchange of hostages and prisoners between Hamas and Prime Minister Netanyahu’s regime in Tel Aviv, Gaza is to be rebuilt from the ruins by US and other transnational corporations. Palestinian organisations would be excluded from government, while an interim council takes charge headed by Trump alongside war criminal Tony Blair. 

“Israeli Cabinet ministers make no secret of their government’s intention to expel Palestinians from their Gaza homeland and to annex most or all of the occupied West Bank”, Mr Griffiths pointed out.

“Yet Britain’s Labour government connives in these plans and the Gaza genocide while claiming to support Palestinian statehood”, he accused.   “Meanwhile at home, more than one thousand peaceful protestors against Labour’s bogus ‘anti-terrorist’ ban are arrested and Home Secretary Shaban Mahmood announces extra restrictions on the right to peaceful protest”, the CP General Secretary added.

“And now this government stays silent as British citizens and more than 400 other members of an unarmed flotilla taking aid to starving Gazans are captured by Israeli troops in international waters, tied up and transported to Israeli police and prison cells”.

“Has a Labour government ever sunk lower than this one?” Mr Griffiths asked. He also warned that its new bans and restrictions would be used against many different campaigns and protestors in future, including trade unionists.

The Political Committee welcomed a report from CP Industrial Organiser Alex Gordon on the party’s residential school last weekend, attended by more than 40 trade union activists – most of them in their late teens and twenties – from across Britain. 

Political Committee
Communist Party

7 October 2025

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