Millions Losing Faith with Labour: British Communists

Keir Starmer in front of a British fighter jet on the HMS Prince of Wales, April 25 -- image via Number 10, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

"Keir Starmer's government is sacrificing millions of working-class votes for the Labour Party on the altar of big business profits, militarism and war", Communist Party of Britain general secretary Robert Griffiths told his party's Political Committee on Tuesday evening, (May 27).

"Scores of billions of pounds extra can be found for more nuclear weapons, to assist Israel's genocidal destruction of the Palestinian people and to prolong the barbaric war in Ukraine", he accused, "while Labour uses its 160-plus majority in the House of Commons to deny relative petty cash to pensioners, poor families and people with disabilities".

Mr. Griffiths said "military Keynesianism" to boost the profits of Britain's corrupt arms corporations was no substitute for an industrial and infrastructure strategy based on progressive taxation, public investment, public ownership and economic planning.

"The City of London and big business dictate Labour government policies, while millions of former Labour supporters look to the millionaire charlatans of Reform UK for help with their escalating food, housing, energy and transport bills", he argued.

Responding to the Communist Party's recent consultation with members in preparation for its 58th party congress in November, Mr Griffiths said it was clear that the old election slogan to "Vote Labour where no Communist is standing" could no longer apply.

"A growing number of socialist, progressive and Communist candidates are likely to contest future elections who deserve the support of everyone who upholds the principles of working-class solidarity, social justice, peace and democratic and human rights", he declared.

The CP political committee also announced that the communist parties of Ireland, India (Marxist), South Africa and Germany have been invited to attend November's congress in Sheffield, and called for big turnouts on June 7 for the People's Assembly demonstration in London, the Derby silk mill festival and the CND protest in Plymouth and Devonport dockyard against Britain's expanding fleet of Trident nuclear submarines.