The below statement is signed by over 100 organisations including the Revolutionary Communist Group, opposing the planned proscription of Palestine Action by the British government.
We are all Palestine Action!
We stand in unequivocal solidarity with Palestine Action as they resist the Labour government’s defamatory threats of possible proscription. This draconian action is a desperate ploy by a government exposed for its shameless complicity in the zionist genocide in Gaza. Instead of heeding the people’s call for meaningful actions to end the genocide, in which over 200,000 Palestinians have been murdered or maimed, this government has chosen to prosecute those resisting it.
Let us be clear: the war on Gaza is an Israeli-American-British genocide of the Palestinian people, an acute expression of the zionist entity’s intention to ethnically cleanse Palestine of its people. The people of this country have demanded an end to arms sales and British complicity in these war crimes. By targeting these genocidaires, Palestine Action has done more to uphold the will of the people and Britain’s responsibility to prevent genocide than anyone in Whitehall.
Palestine Action’s successful decommissioning of two Royal Air Force military aircrafts at RAF Brize Norton struck a crucial node for the imperialist war machine where British spy planes are refueled and primed for surveillance flights over Gaza. These flights share intelligence with the zionist entity, aiding its genocide of our people.
Palestine Action has not only exposed Britain’s deep entanglement in genocide but continues to strike directly at the heart of the imperial war machine. Their actions reflect a growing, organised refusal across Britain and beyond to allow business as usual for those who profit from and enable the machinery of death in Gaza. This is not simply an act of symbolic solidarity from a distance; it is a direct confrontation with the profiteers of this genocide. From weapons factories to university labs, from boardrooms to parliament itself, complicity is not peripheral; it is entrenched in the very infrastructure of power at home.
This wave of repression makes clear the lengths to which the British state will go to crush any challenge to its imperial interests. It is a threat aimed at all who dare to resist a state that defends genocide. By brandishing proscription and terrorism charges, the government seeks to not only target Palestine Action in isolation, but to strike fear and submission into the movement. This shrinking of our rights in Britain in service of genocide reveals that the struggle for Palestine is a struggle for us all.
As this critical part of our movement is targeted, we must extend our unwavering support to Palestine Action and join forces to collectively condemn the precedent that this will set. Now, more than ever, we must insist on continuing taking to the streets in mass, providing support for comrades facing state repression and violence, and insisting that an attack on one part of our movement is an attack on the entire movement.
