Communists welcome Tory defeat but sound the alarm on rise of the far right
BRITAIN’S communists have welcomed the Tory Party’s crushing defeat at the general election, saying it should raise the morale, expectations and demands of millions of working-class people.
But Communist Party general secretary Robert Griffiths warned that Labour’s so-called landslide was based on a fragile minority slice of popular support.
“Under Keir Starmer's rightwards-shifting leadership, his party has lost three million votes compared with the 2017 general election and more than half a million since 2019,” he told the Communist Party’s executive committee today.
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