Workplace Day of Action for Palestine
Nakba Day – Thursday 15 May 2025
In your workplace around the country
#workplaces4palestine
After a brief respite Israel has resumed its genocidal onslaught in Gaza. As well as increasing its attacks on Palestinian in the West Bank, Israel is again targeting workers in Gaza. Journalists, medical staff, and aid workers are all being killed at an unprecedented rate. Meanwhile, backed by Donald Trump, Israel is openly threatening the full ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza.
We must call for an end to 77 years of Nakba – (Catastrophe in Arabic) the systematic ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land, started in 1948. We must continue to demand a permanent ceasefire, an end to all arms sales to Israel, and justice for the Palestinian people.
On Thursday 15 May 2025, answer the call of Palestinian trade unionists by taking action in your workplace.
Tens of thousands of trade unionists in Britain have joined the huge national protests in London and elsewhere and have been leading an array of solidarity actions. In September 2024, TUC Congress unanimously passed a motion demanding an end to all licenses for arms traded with Israel, meeting international law, reaffirming the need to advance a strategy of boycott, divestment and sanctions, and recognising that all Palestinians are subjected to a system of oppression that is recognised internationally as apartheid. Congress also voted to adopt an emergency resolution to support calls for UK-wide workplace actions in support of an immediate ceasefire...
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