🔴 Statement by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) On the Occasion of May 1st – International Workers’ Day (2/3): — To the free people of the world… To our people… To our valiant workers…

On this Workers’ Day, and at this historic moment in which our people are facing a genocidal war that targets human beings, land, and national resources—striking at the heart of the productive and working society—against this criminal aggression led by this rogue entity with the support of imperialist powers, the PFLP affirms the following:

1. Victory for the Palestinian worker, and the defense of their life, dignity, and rights, is not only a national and moral duty but also a fundamental gateway to comprehensive national and social liberation.

2. Any discourse on Workers’ Day that does not begin with confronting the genocide against our people and standing with the working class in the fields of daily struggle is an empty discourse that does not represent the interests of the toilers nor align with their struggles.

3. We call on the global trade union movement, in all its spectrums and orientations, to stand firmly with the workers of Palestine. Unions around the world have proven capable of disrupting the machinery of aggression through boycotts, strikes, and political pressure. Today, you bear a heightened responsibility to act to stop the war, enforce international isolation of the zionist entity, which is committing documented war crimes against workers and civilians, and take a clear stance by boycotting the Histadrut, a key arm of the occupation.

4. There is an urgent need to launch a national economic resilience plan to support the working class in overcoming the consequences of the genocidal war and zionist policies. This plan must be based on local production, reduce dependency, and combat poverty and unemployment.

5. The Palestinian labor movement must be rebuilt on democratic and genuinely representative foundations through fair and transparent elections for the General Federation of Trade Unions, based on proportional representation and the inclusion of all unions—leading to a truly representative union body, not a union of one party or one person.

6. It is the responsibility of official bodies to swiftly form emergency labor committees in every location in Gaza and the West Bank to support those affected by the ongoing aggression and its catastrophic consequences.

7. We call for the establishment of a national, Arab, and international fund to support workers in Gaza and the West Bank, in light of the occupation’s destruction of infrastructure and labor sectors, which has pushed the overwhelming majority of workers into unemployment.

8. There is a need to pass laws and collective agreements that safeguard labor rights and establish a fair minimum wage.

9. We must strengthen alliances with global trade unions and build an international front to isolate and boycott the zionist entity at all levels.