The Palestinian working class can’t be free until Israeli apartheid, occupation, and settler-colonialism end — which can’t happen without resistance of Palestinian workers and international workers in solidarity.
How workers have united in and behind Palestine this past year ⬇️
In May 2021, hundreds of thousands of Palestinian workers — in multiple different industries, and across Gaza, the West Bank, and ’48 — all went on general strike to protest Israel’s ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem, bombing of Gaza, and military and police violence.
Their strike led to hundreds of millions of dollars of losses for the Israeli economy, demonstrating Israel’s dependence on Palestinian labor and the liberatory potential of a unified Palestinian working class.
Dockworkers from South Africa to California to Italy refused to unload cargo from Israeli ships, throwing a wrench in the Israeli economy and preventing the transport of weapons and other goods that the state of Israel uses to enact violence against Palestinians.
An unprecedented number of US unions in the sectors of roofing, journalism, hospitality, UPS driving, and more have issued statements in solidarity with Palestinians, often demanding the US to end all funding to the Israeli military.
An example from Roofers Union Local 36:
Teachers unions in San Francisco and Seattle passed resolutions endorsing the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement and calling for our tax dollars to fund public education, not Israeli human apartheid and war crimes.
Google and Amazon workers have put their jobs on the line to demand the companies end their $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli government and military.
Workers make the world run, so we can leverage our labor to disrupt and change it! To more labor action in solidarity with Palestinians this year ✊🛠
#InternationalWorkersDay #MayDay
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