Saturday, 27 December 2008

The Communist Party of Israel and Hadash (the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality) condemn today’s deadly attack by the Israeli Air Force on the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the killing of over 150 Palestinians.

The CPI calls on Communist and Workers parties and social movements throughout the world to mobilise against these Israeli war crimes and demands that the international community implement sanctions against Israel and indict Tzipi Livni, Ehud Barak and other Israeli political and military leadership for these blatant war crimes, committed as part of Israel’s election process. 

'Israel has violated international law and UN resolutions with impunity for more than 40 years', Communist Party general secretary Robert Griffiths told a rally in Cardiff on New Years Eve.

'Armed to the teeth by the USA, successive Israeli governments have been licensed to occupy Palestinian territory and massacre Palestinian civilians on a scale that would not be tolerated by the US, Britain and the European Union anywhere else in the world', he told the crowd of 200 protestors beneath the Aneurin Bevan in Cardiff city centre.
 
The demonstration had been called at short notice by Palestine Solidarity Cymru (Wales) to protest against Israel's continuous bombing of Gaza. 

Thursday, 01 January 2009

The New Labour government made £550 billion available to the banks and the money markets to bail them out. 

That's equivalent to nearly half of all government spending, or one-third of Britain's gross output of goods and services.

Britain's Communist Party is calling for occupations by 'workers and local communities' to defend workplaces and homes facing closure and repossession.

In a New Year's message today (Thursday), the party's General Secretary Robert Griffiths made the call if what he dubbed 'this feeble New Labour government' fails to act to prevent mass redundancies and housing evictions.

In a letter to the national and regional mass media, he dismisses Prime Minister Gordon Brown's planned £20 billion boost to the economy as 'chicken feed', demanding to know what has happened to the £550 billion made available to the banks and money markets.