BRITAIN’S communists have condemned the “illegal and treacherous” US-Israeli attack on Iran as an “epic war crime.”

The Communist Party’s political committee this week said the February 28 so-called Operation Epic Fury strike “highlights imperialism’s disastrous consequences” for the people of Iran, the Middle East and the working class globally.

It heard the terrible human cost inflicted on Iran by the military campaign, including the murder of more than 160 Iranian schoolchildren at Minab along with dozens of school staff and rescuers in a double-strike by US Tomahawk missiles.

The operation also saw the US targeting desalination plants aimed at crippling water supplies and bombing of oil storage facilities causing catastrophic environmental damage.

But the committee warned that the economic impact of the conflict includes sharply rising oil prices, driving inflation and potential stagflation, due to the UK economy’s reliance on US energy imports.

It emphasised the need for unions to build a militant response to cost-of-living pressures as in 2022 during Britain’s last inflationary crisis.

And the committee criticised the Labour government’s short-term economic decision-making after it cut promised investment in 2024 in renewable energy transition from an original pledge of £28 billion annually in green projects.

Instead, it has adopted a smaller, phased-in commitment, while a so-called British Jobs Bonus to incentivise green technology manufacturing in industrial areas is not due to start until the 2026-27 financial year.

The meeting concluded by underlining the Communist Party’s role in presenting an alternative to imperialist adventurism and the far right’s solutions of scapegoating immigrants while welcoming wars that cause mass migration.