“THERE is no bigger priority for our party than to build support for the Palestinian people,” Communist Party international secretary Kevan Nelson declared at the party’s 57th Congress today.

Moving an emergency resolution on the crisis in Gaza, Mr Nelson called on the party to build “union solidarity and direct action as we’ve seen in Belgium and Italy, support boycott, divestment and sanctions, mobilise medical aid – and force a change in the position of the British government and its Labour lackeys.”

Mr Nelson warned that the British state was increasingly cracking down on protests in solidarity with Palestine. “Only this morning a demonstration at the Israeli embassy was banned under the Public Order Act.”