British Communists ask: Who does Starmer support?"

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"Labour should quit its competition against Reform UK and the Tories to see who can sink the lowest in their grovelling to President Trump, their connivance in Israeli genocide and their attacks on human rights and democratic liberties", Robert Griffiths told the Communist Party's executive committee last weekend.

"We have a Prime Minister who shows more concern for the so-called right of notorious Israeli football hooligans to bring their racist slogans to Birmingham than for the right of Palestinians to live free from Israeli terror and starvation", the CP general secretary declared.

"Keir Starmer refuses to condemn the mass murder of more than 60,000 defenceless civilians - including 20,000 children - in Gaza, or even the kidnapping by Israeli soldiers of British citizens aboard the 'Peace Flotilla' in international waters", Mr Griffiths pointed out.

"Meanwhile, his government has criminalised several thousand peaceful protestors who oppose the ban on non-violent direct action group Palestine Action - a policy condemned by UN Human Rights chief Volker Turk as a misuse of counter-terrorism legislation and a threat to fundamental freedoms across the UK", he added.

"Yet even as this Labour government gets into the gutter with his friends Trump and Israeli PM Netanyahu, feeds the anti-immigrant hysteria and joins in the new Cold War against China, Tory and Reform UK leaders sink into the sewer with their anti-Palestinian, anti-migrant, anti-Muslim and warmongering outbursts", Mr Griffiths accused.

He applauded last Friday's Appeal Court decision to deny a Home Office attempt to block a judicial review of the Palestine Action ban.

The CP executive also supported moves to launch a new mass left-wing electoral party at the end of November, with ex-Labour MPs Jeremy Corbyn, Sarah Sultana and Mary Winter and former trade union leaders Len McCluskey and Mark Serwotka among the leaders.

"Although there will be no breakthrough to socialism without a strong, mass-influence and independent communist party, our members are encouraged to take part in open meetings discussing the new party's role and policies", Mr Griffiths remarked.

The CP executive meeting finalised arrangements for its own 58th party congress in mid-November where guests will attend from communist and workers' parties in Palestine, Israel, India, Ireland, South Africa and Germany.