Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist)

Over the past two years, since October 7, 2023, mass actions held worldwide have supported the Palestinian resistance against the US-Israeli genocide, a genocide which is a war crime in which the British government must be held complicit. The ceasefire, which the world has been demanding, and which has just been announced, has been brought about through the unrelenting resistance of the Palestinian people to the Zionist attempts to eradicate them as a people, a resistance which demands self-determination for the heroic Palestinian people. This resistance has shown itself to be unstoppable, and however the "peace plan" develops in its various phases, it is a resistance which will never be eliminated. Organised resistance and determination to end the genocide and support the Palestinians and their statehood and self-determination can be seen everywhere.

Since October 7, 2023, there have been two years of US/Israeli-Zionist bombings, killings and crimes against humanity. Now, the Palestinian resistance has ensured that Israel has agreed to a ceasefire. But the full unfolding of the "peace plan" is bound to eventually founder if the Palestinian people are denied their full right of self-determination, for the Palestinian people must and will decide who their leaders are. History did not begin with October 7. The Palestinian people have been subject to decades of Israeli violations of the principles of the UN Charter, violations of international law and crimes against humanity. Indeed, Britain itself has a criminal history of colonial rule and intervention in the region and implanting the roots of the apartheid state and the Zionist entity. Still, the Palestinians have not abandoned the principle that they must have a government of their own making, and have rejected the dictate of the big powers as to what their state must be.

RCPB(ML) congratulates the Palestinian resistance on waging their struggle so as to achieve a ceasefire. Justice now demands that the Palestinian people must be able to assert their right to self-determination, their right of return and to full compensation, reconstruction, and restitution for the catastrophe that befell them in 1948, and which they have resisted, as is their right, from that time.

Stand with Palestine! Stand with the Resistance!

Jabalia Refugee Camp - Israel bombs remains - Photo: Quds News Network

According to the most recent figures from the Health Ministry in Gaza [1] in 24 hours on October 5 the Gaza strip medical facilities received 65 dead, and 153 others injured resulting from attacks and military aggression by the Israeli occupation army. They said that many victims are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them. They said that these latest casualties bring Gaza's total documented death toll since October 7, 2023, to 67,139 dead and 169,583 injured.

Farewell to those killed seeking aid - Photo: Quds Network News

During these two years the horrific facts show that Israel, backed by the US, Britain and the others of the Genocide 7 that have armed this genocidal regime, have killed more than 10 percent of Gaza's population, including at least 20,000 children and infants. In addition UNICEF estimates that 3,000 to 4,000 children in Gaza have lost one or more limbs. Israel has attacked and destroyed nearly all of Gaza's hospitals and healthcare facilities killing, according to UN figures, 1,722 health and aid workers. Hundreds of others have been forcibly removed from hospital wards and patient bedsides and detained in Israeli prisons and military camps. This includes 28 prominent physicians, including 18 senior specialists in vital fields such as surgery, anaesthesiology, intensive care and
Palestine Solidarity - Photo: Shehab paediatrics. Two of these senior doctors have reportedly died under torture in Israeli custody, and their bodies are still being withheld. At least 20 physicians were taken from hospitals besieged or stormed by Israeli soldiers, while others were detained from medical convoys, their homes or during forced evacuations.

In these unprecedented war crimes Israel has orchestrated widespread hunger in Gaza through military restrictions that have blocked aid for months and an imposed food distribution system in which people are shot almost daily while trying to collect food. At least 459 people, including 154 children, have died due to starvation with more than 2,600 being killed and more than 19,000 being injured when collecting food and chillingly deliberately shot and injured by the IDF. According to the same UN authorities nearly 89% of Gaza's water and sanitation infrastructure is damaged.

On August 22, the United Nations-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) system, a global hunger monitor, confirmed a famine in the enclave - the first officially recognised in the Middle East. At least 780 education staff members have also been killed, and 92 percent of schools now require complete reconstruction. More than 2,300 educational facilities, including 63 university buildings, have been destroyed. The ones still standing are being used as shelter for the displaced or occupied by the IDF who occupy schools and hospitals to hide from the resistance and wage "war" on the population.

More than 10,800 Palestinians are currently held in Israeli prisons under what human rights groups describe as grave and inhumane conditions, including 450 children and 87 women. People were rounded up in raids in Gaza, or during raids in the occupied West Bank. A significant number are held without charge or trial. At least 3,629 Palestinians are being detained under administrative detention, a policy that Israel uses to imprison Palestinians indefinitely on "secret evidence".

Note
1. Two years of Israel's genocide in Gaza: By the numbers, Al Jazeera, October 7. Nearly 300 journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza since October 7, including 10 from Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/7/two-years-of-israels-genocide-in-gaza-by-the-numbers

The June Glastonbury Festival in Solidarity with Palestine - Photo: Seán MacGobhann

On October 7, thousands of students walked out at universities across Britain marking two years since Israel stepped up its genocidal crimes against the people of Gaza and the West Bank. In London students organised a march from Kings College London (KCL) to SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) and also student demonstrations took place across Glasgow and in Edinburgh among student actions in other cities. The student and other community actions, vigils, discussions are continuing to take place all week with the culmination of the national march on October 11 at 12 noon in London marching from the embankment to Downing Street. This will be the thirty-second national demonstration for Palestine and is expected to be among the largest yet marking the second anniversary of the start of the genocide in Gaza. Also on the anniversary, Scottish national demonstrations are also taking place from Glasgow Central Station 11am and 12.30pm from McClennan Arch, Glasgow Green.

KCL Students for Justice for Palestine names and ages of children killed by Israeli military in Gaza, October 7 - Photo: Natalia Georgopoulos

The two years of genocide mark 77 years of Anglo/US and the Genocide 7 (G7) backing of Israeli crimes against the Palestinians with denial of their rights, with murder, ethnic cleansing, imprisonment, torture and settler colonialism. Yet, Britain's complicity and involvement in these war crimes of Israel was further compounded when the only concern of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on October 7 was to demand that everyone condemn Hamas and not Israel [1]. He went further in announcing to the press that the student protests were being "un-British", and that they were "showing a lack of respect for others" when referring to the Manchester Synagogue attack and claiming that pro-Palestine protests are a "despicable excuse to attack British Jews". Facts reported show that, contrary what Keir Starmer infers this attack has nothing to do with any organisations, or individuals involved with the Palestine Solidarity movement. [2]

In this way, Starmer deliberately insults the people standing with Palestine who welcome the thousands of Jewish people into their actions and just opposition to Israeli war crimes; and in doing so he insults the Jewish community as if the Jewish community in Britain supports the Israeli regime in its genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. This is not the case. The fact is that, unlike the genocidal British ruling elite, much of the Jewish community like the majority in Britain stand with Palestinians and either support or increasingly take part in all the actions to defeat Israel's genocide and Britain's support for it. The students from SOAS [3] stated that, "as students, academics, workers, people of conscience, we cannot allow this to continue with business as usual during a live streamed genocide. We must transform everything we do into strength, into solidarity, into relentless action and a relentless fight." They emphasised that, "our unity matters. Every step w e take through our campuses is a refusal to let genocide be normalised, ignored, or erased."

It is no accident that Starmer fears the progressive student movement and attacks the students in particular. The spirit of the students at KCL and SOAS is shown by their action and statements which is echoed by students across Britain. They say: "Every step we take through our campuses is to resist their complicity through investments, Israeli academic partnerships. Every step we take is showing them that their repression will never intimidate us. That they can try to discipline us, suspend us, expel us, that they can attempt to erase Palestine from our universities but that we will never abide to that and that we will ensure that never happens. We will continue to rise and our goals will be achieved."

The British government's attempts to rescue the genocidal state of Israel by attacking any resistance to Israel's genocide in Palestine as well the resistance in Britain. The government and their media constantly present their lies that the resistance of the Palestinian people and the huge opposition of the people in Britain to genocide is a threat to a "safe and secure Israel" and threatens rising "antisemitism on our streets, in our country". These lies are the justification for siding with Israel in its ethnic cleansing of Gaza, and the British government's state policy of arresting thousands of people who stand with the Palestinian people, ruling their peaceful actions "terrorist". What it shows is that the resistance of the Palestinians and the resistance of the people standing with Palestinians is increasingly effective in leading to the complete defeat of these horrendous crimes against the Palestinian people and all humanity.

Over two years, literally millions upon millions have demonstrated worldwide and taken actions without let-up right across the globe in support of the Palestinian cause for their right to be and their right to resist. Broad sections of the people in Britain, including the workers' movement and the youth and students, have taken actions against the arms industries, actions against the supply of weapons and bombs to Israel, actions such as the flotillas against starvation to break the blockade, actions that close all the space for Israel and its G7 backers, and actions that have taken to the streets to help defeat this genocide. They affirm without let-up to Free, Free Palestine! and vehemently call for an end to the genocidal assaults on the Palestinian people, and that all the perpetrators be brought to justice in Israel and Britain.

Free, Free Palestine!
Stand with Palestine! Stand with the Resistance!

Notes
1. Press release PM statement on 7 October attacks
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-statement-on-7-october-attacks

2. Manchester Synagogue attack. Facts reported show that, contrary to what Keir Starmer infers this attack by Jihad Shamie has nothing to do with any organisations, or individuals involved with the Palestine Solidarity movement. Reports indicate that Jihad al Shamie, 35, carried out the attack last Thursday, October 2, as he tried to get inside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Crumpsall. Two people were killed during his car and knife attack and the police response. Three other people remain in hospital. The police shot Jihad al Shamie the attacker dead. Also Adrian Daulby, 53, "is believed to have been shot dead by police." who was attempting to prevent Jihad al Shamie entering the synagogue. A spokesperson for Counter Terrorism Policing North West said on Wednesday October 8: "We can confirm that, in the initial stages of the attack outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, a call was made by the attacker to police claiming to pledge allegiance to the so-called Islamic State."

3. Inter University March, The Canary, October 7
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/10/07/london-universities-walk-out-gaza/

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