Communist Party General Secretary Robert Griffiths has issued the following comment in response to the election of US President Donald Trump today, 6 November 2024:
“Trump’s victory poses a real threat to the rights and living standards of women, immigrants, the poor, and workers and their trade unions in the USA. In place of grovelling congratulations like those from Prime Minister Starmer, Foreign Secretary Lammy and French President Macron, the so-called ‘centre-left’ should learn the lesson from recent US and EU election results: capitulating to big business market forces, racism, militarism and right-wing nationalism will end in their own defeat, sooner or later. They must now end their collaboration with Israeli genocide and break decisively from US foreign policy, including its economic and military provocations against People’s China”.
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