The following resolution was presented by our party to the international conference of the World Anti-imperialist Platform held in Caracas on 22 October 2025.
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Since the heroic uprising of the oppressed Palestinian people in Gaza on 7 October 2023, the Palestinians have faced the full onslaught of the zionist occupiers.
This onslaught does not come only from the settlers who have seized Palestinian land, but is backed by the full force of Nato imperialism, especially by the military, economic, diplomatic and media machineries of the USA and Britain.
Britain’s Labour government, having enacted the Terrorism Act in 2000, has now used this law to ban a nonviolent protest group, Palestine Action, for targeting the factories of Israeli weapons company Elbit, the banks that invest in zionism, and planes used by the RAF as it participates in the ongoing genocide in Gaza with regular spy flights.
None of these actions constitute terrorism, but British police are now making regular mass arrests of the thousands of people who have been peacefully protesting against this ban, many of whom are elderly or disabled, and all of whom are clearly not terrorists. Those arrested face a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison if the legal challenge to the ban does not succeed.
In recent years, seven of our own party comrades have been arrested on the spurious charges of ‘hate speech’ (‘antisemitism’) and ‘supporting terrorism’. They spent the night in jail, had their family homes raided in the early hours of the morning, and their phones and computers were confiscated for months. They had the threat of these charges hanging over their heads for six months before the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) was forced to admit there was no case to answer.
Many professionals in Britain, in particular journalists and doctors, have been targeted by zionist organisations such as UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI), the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), and the Jewish Medical Association (JMA). Doctors have been spuriously reported to the General Medical Council (GMC), their livelihoods and their ability to help their patients threatened.
We recently reported on the case of Dr Aladwan, who has been suspended from work, threatened with having her licence revoked, arrested by police, and subjected to a slanderous campaign in the media and by health secretary Wes Streeting (who has received £30,000 from zionist donors and who has promised to introduce the zionist IHRA ‘definition of antisemitism’ into the British health service to prevent medics there speaking out against the genocide).
Our own party comrade Steve Sweeney, an RT journalist who was formerly based in Donbass and who now heads the Lebanon desk in Beirut, has also faced persecution. His bank accounts have been frozen, and when he tried to visit family in Britain he was interrogated at the border by SO15, the anti-terrorism police unit being used for political policing by the British government. He was questioned about his reporting from Donbass, his links to resistance organisations in the middle east, and asked whether or not he was a communist.
Steve is one of many journalists and academics who have been interrogated at the border, their phones and computers searched, for the crime of refusing to go along with the propaganda effort to enable imperialist-zionist genocide and the Nato aggression against Russia in Ukraine.
We call upon all individuals and organisations in Britain to:
- Resist any attempts to silence those who are against zionism, imperialism and fascism.
- Fight against oppressive laws to restrict basic freedoms, including freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and the right of journalists to report the truth and protect their sources.
- Unite to stop the British ruling class from punishing workers who voice their opinions by firing and blacklisting them from work.
- Defeat the attempt to smear anti-zionism as antisemitism, and share the understanding that zionism is one of many tools used by imperialism to maintain its domination over the world’s peoples and resources.
We ask for individuals and organisations around the world, including in Britain, to:
- Share news about the ongoing oppression by the British state and its “Mother of Parliaments”, a supposedly ‘democratic’ country that claims to ‘protect human rights’ and ‘promote individual freedoms’.
- Help spread awareness of the fact that the British ruling class is not a bystander in the Gaza genocide and the Ukraine war; it is an active belligerent that commits crimes against its own people as well as against the peoples who it targets with its war and terrorism machine.
The masses of workers rightly find genocide, torture, rape and displacement horrifying; they are naturally outraged at the persecution of those who raise their voices against such heinous crimes. Meanwhile, the British ruling class considers genocide abroad and repression at home to be a price worth paying for the maintenance of its rule and of its global system of wealth extraction.
Communist parties in particular must use the example of repression and state criminality in Britain to bring home the necessity of opposing and dismantling the entire imperialist system, and the neo-nazi Nato warmongering alliance in particular.
We must redouble our efforts and join our forces in the struggle to free humanity from this bloodthirsty system, which respects no rights and puts no value on human life.
