Palestinian trade unions issue a global call to action! Stop the complicity with Israel's crimes! The time is NOW to halt the arms trade, funding, and military research. Palestinian lives depend on it. Share this message far and wide!
#PalestineSolidarity
#StoArmingIsrael
Mining workers in
#Colombia
call the government to “suspend the shipment of Colombian coal, or any other metal or mineral to Israel.”
Action by workers & their unions can change the course of history!
#ceasfireNOW
#stoparmingisrael
Palestinian Trade Unions call for immediate and urgent action from international Trade Unions. For translations and model motion see here
#SaveSheikhJarrah
#Gaza
#Solidarity
BREAKING: 14 trade unions and over 200 civil society orgs in Spanish state launch a campaign calling on gov't to end arms trade with Israel "arms embargo is more necessary today than ever"
#StopArmingIsrael
The National Railway Motive Power Union of Chiba, Japan, declares it will “fight through to bring down the Kishida administration intending to provide weapons, financial aid, or any other kind of support to Israel”.
#stopArmingIsrael
#ceasfireNOW
S.I Cobas, a major rank-and-file union in the
#logistics
sector in
#Italy
, declares that its
#workers
“will oppose any shipping of weapons to Israel which they become aware of.”
Trade unions, your action makes a material difference on the ground!
#StopArmingIsrael
#Palestine
🔥 Global Days of Action: Nov 9-10 🔥
Time to take a stand for justice!
Join us in demanding STOP arming Israel's war machine.
#CeasefireNOW
.
Let's unite to block arms factories, urge unions to halt weapon production, and expose complicit universities.
#StopArmingIsral
15,000 people in Gaza have been murdered by the Israeli government, with weapons made and maintained on British soil.
That’s why we have come together to stand with the people of Gaza and Palestine, community to community, to shut down 3 of these arms companies today.
The situation in Palestine is catastrophic. We must prevent the arming of the Israeli state. Join us in taking immediate action, no matter where you are in the world. Let's restrain the Israeli war machine together. Share this call widely!
#StopArmingIsrael
Rank-and-file trade unionists & activists blocked a ZIM cargo from docking and loading at Melbourne port, Australia.
All power to them ✊🏾
ZIM is a shipping company established in 1945 by the Jewish Agency and is deeply complicit in Israel’s settler-colonial violence.
Breaking: in response to Workers in Palestine
@WorkersinPales1
call, trade unionists are blocking entrances at multiple weapons manufacturing sites across Britain. A salute to this unwavering solidarity in action!
@Workers4Pal
BREAKING: Over 1000 trade unionists at multiple sites across Britain are blockading arms factories that are supplying arms to Israel! 🇵🇸
#ShutItDown4Palestine
In a historic coordinated action dockers and port workers affiliated with the European Dockworkers Council are taking
#StopArmingIsrael
actions across their workplaces today.
#SolidarityInAction
Breaking 🚨The Water Transport Workers Federation of India, representing workers at 11 ports refuses to handle weapons destined to Israel & calls for an immediate ceasefire.
We need more of this!! Now more than ever ✊🏾
Stand up and pressure your union to
#stopArmingIsrael
.
Cut the supply chain of israeli weapons- sabotage production lines, block the factories & the boats, & cut funding!
The majority of bombs dropping on Gaza & bullets penetrating Palestinian bodies are produced internationally
Take concrete actions to
#stopArmingIsrael
NOW
BREAKING: a collective of trade unionists have blocked both entrances of a subsidiary of Elbit Systems in Kent
The group say they are blockading the factory providing weapons to the Israeli military, in solidarity with Palestine.
Workers In Palestine sends our solidarity to the University of California workers of
@uaw_4811
as they prepare to strike for Palestine. As Israel’s genocide intensifies, the LAPD shoots rubber bullets into student crowds. This Must End.
From under Israel’s bombardment, the workers of Gaza call for intensifying action to confront Israeli genocide.
Now is the time for courageous worker-led solidarity!
#Srtike4Palestine
#stoparmingisrael
Absolutely brilliant!
Since 2000 Boeing has exported military goods from the US to Israel worth at a MINIMUM $2.8bn. This includes $1.3bn of bombs and guidance kits some of which are being used to commit genocide in
#Gaza
right now!
Build & organise to
#stopArmingIsrael
BREAKING: After shutting down
@BoeingDefense
Building 598 for 2 hours, workers are being sent home and deliveries for the day have been cancelled.
Congress won’t stop the bombs so WE WILL‼️
The All India Central Council of Trade Unions (
@AICCTUhq
), representing more than 600,000 workers, calls on unions to “unite and boycott manufacturing or loading of weapons and military equipment destined to Israel”
Unions lead the charge for
#militaryEmbargo
. The time is now!
We must upscale our solidarity to restrain Israel’s war machine!
In this guide you can find on ways of taking action and potential targets.
Read it, share it, and mobilise for the global days of action, November 9-10.
#stoparmingisrael
#ceasfirenow
#freePalestine
Inspired by past mobilisations, we call on trade unions worldwide to refuse building weapons for Israel, to halt weapon transport, and to pressure governments to stop military trade. Share this call far and wide!
#SolidarityWorks
#EndColonialBrutality
Workers and activists target Leonardo’s factory in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Much of the weapons used by Israel to kill Palestinians are produced internationally. Together, we can restrain Israel’s war machine!
#stopArmingIsrael
#CeasfireNOW
A fantastic show of solidarity from transport unions on Belgium!
We need more of this!!!
Stand up and pressure your union to cut the supply of arms to Israel!
#CeasfireNOW
#StopArmingIsrael
The largest umbrella confederation of trade unions in Poland,
@OPZZcentrala
calls for an “end to military cooperation with Israel”
Much of the weapons israel uses to ethnically cleans Palestinians are produced internationally.
Worker action can curb israel’s military capacity
Activists forcibly shut down Leonardo's London headquarters, citing the company's provision of Apache helicopters and F-35 fighter jet components to Israel, which contributes to the genocide of the Palestinian people.
Breaking: The UAW local of 4600 autoworkers at Ford's Chicago Assembly Plant endorses the Palestinian TU call to
#stoparmingisrael
& calls for an immediate ceasefire.
Salute to all the rank-and-file members who made this possible through consistent campaigning!
Palestinian healthcare unions a urgent call for international solidarity
“Today, we issue a straightforward and urgent call to health care unions worldwide. We seek your solidarity and immediate assistance.”
#healthworkersolidarity
#freePalestine
Historic Strike for Gaza and Palestine!
Salute to all the dedicated organisers who made this possible.
We hope that this is just the beginning of worker strikes for Palestine across the world!
Solidarity!
Free Palestine!
As the world watches the dire conditions faced by medical workers in Gaza, the call for immediate ceasefire and end to complicity must get louder.
Medical workers internationally, speak up for your colleagues in Gaza!
#ceasfirenow
#stoparmingisrael
#solidaritywithpalestine
This short guide shares valuable lessons learned about building effective relations with trade unions to
#StopArmingIsrael
. Pls use & share widely. Download the guide:
Solidarity in action! ✊🏾 The Society for Women Engineers at University of California, SB, has ended their partnership with Northrop Grumman, over its complicity with Israeli crimes.
The decision came following an organised distribution by trade unionists & activists
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And now a breaking victory: the Society for Women Engineers at UCSB has now announced that they are ending their partnership with Northrop Grumman in light of last night’s Palestine solidarity protests.
Solidarity in action! Power to all of those taking action ✊🏾
We must continue organising & upscaling our actions to
#stoparmingisrael
- Palestinian lives hang in the balance.
#ceasfireNOW
#FreePalenstine
🚨BREAKING: BAE SYSTEMS IN GLASGOW BLOCKADED 🇵🇸
In solidarity with Palestine over 100 people are blockading the entrance to BAE Systems in Govan!
This action is supported by a group of Edinburgh residents responding to the Palestinian call to disrupt the Israeli arms trade. ✊
🔥🇵🇸
@CoordinadoraBCN
dockworkers at
#Barcelona
port declare that they will not load or handle ships containing weapons destined to Israel & Ukraine!
All power to Barcelona’s dockworkers!
Workers worldwide are taking action to end Israeli impunity, join us!
#stoparmingisrael
BREAKING:
@ITFAfrica
representing 18.5M transport workers passed a resolution in solidarity with Palestinian calling for a ceasefire, restoring funding to UNRWA, & a military embargo on Israel!
Power to the trade unionists who organised & pushed for this significant victory✊🏾🇵🇸
Breaking: 7 national US trade unions, representing 6 million workers, call on the US government to Stop Arming Israel. It's time to harness worker power to end the genocide in Gaza ✊🌍
#StopArmingIsrael
Palestinian Workers’ on Land Day:
“Despite the horror of Israel’s genocide & its daily crimes against Palestinians, we cannot despair or divert our attention … let us renew our commitment to stand united as workers against injustice.”
A powerful show of solidarity by trade unionists and activists in England and Scotland ✊🏾🔥
No business as usual for genocide profiteers
#StopArmingIsrael
#FreePalesine
BREAKING: Hundreds of trade unionists are blockading major arms factories in England and Scotland that manufacture weapons supplied to Israel.
We will not stand by as weapons made in Britain are used to commit genocide against the Palestinian people!
#ShutItDown4Palestine
📍 Bournemouth
📍 Lancashire
📍 Brighton
📍 Glasgow
Today trade unionists have shut down 4 sites in Britain which produce components for the F-35 fighter jet currently being used in Israel's bombardment of Gaza.
#StopArmingIsrael
Yesterday, organisers delayed the departure of a US military ship from port of
#Oakland
.
It is now on route to
#Tacoma
to pick up weapons destined to Israel.
Join the mobilisations and cut the supply chain of arms export to Israel!
#CeasfireNOW
#StopArmingIsrael
BREAKING: Union members are blocking Pratt & Whitney in Toronto.
We’re here in response to the call for global solidarity from
@WorkersinPales1
.
No more business-as-usual for companies complicit in genocide, occupation and apartheid.
It’s time
#CanadaStopArmingIsrael
.
🇵🇸 UC Santa Cruz is on strike for Gaza and Palestine 🔥✊🏾
Salute and power to UC Santa Cruz workers
@payusmoreucsc
striking in solidarity with Gaza and Palestine.
Palestinian healthcare workers are working tirelessly to deliver care in unfathomable conditions. They deserve unwavering solidarity!
Read their call for global solidarity, share it with your colleagues & organise around it.
#healthworkersolidarity
The
#RMT
Union (Britain), representing more than 83,000 members working in rail, maritime & transport support the Palestine trade union call for an arms embargo!
#StopArmingIsrael
#Palestinesolidarity
Workers and unions can deny Israel weapons it uses in its war crimes!
Organise your workplace. Pass a motion to
#stopArmingIsrael
and be part of enforcing a global
#militaryembargo
The situation in Palestine is critical. The time to act in NOW!
NEW:
@unitetheunion
South West Staff and Officers Branch have passed a motion in solidarity with Palestine, calling on the union to support workers to refuse to build and handle weapons destined to Israel.
Comes after a call for international solidarity from
@WorkersinPales1
.
BREAKING: As Israel bombards Gaza, we’re taking action with workers in Canada
@LAATCanada
&
@PalestineLabour
to block entrances to INKAS, a Toronto-based company that supplies military equipment to Israel.
#CanadaStopArmingIsrael
Power to
@Google
workers!
Follow their lead - take action to end your employers’ complicity in Israel’s systematic oppression and dispossession of Palestinian workers and their families.
#StopArmingIsrael
#strike4Palestine
on May Day & Nakba Day
BREAKING—DOZENS OF
@GOOGLE
WORKERS LEAD HISTORIC COAST TO COAST-INS AT
@GOOGLECLOUD
CEO THOMAS KURIAN’S OFFICE IN SUNNYVALE &
@GOOGLE
’s NYC 10TH FLOOR COMMONS. They refuse to leave until
@google
stops powering the genocide in Gaza
LIVESTREAM:
40 years ago today, 11 Dublin supermarket workers walked out on strike to refuse the selling of South African fruit — an act of defiance that would make Ireland the first Western nation to ban apartheid goods.
Belgium leades the way!
In Oct 23, Belgian transport workers' unions called on their members to refuse to handle military equipment destined for Israel.
Yesterday, the Walloon regional government suspended two arms export licenses with Israel.
Palestinian healthcare workers called upon their colleagues worldwide to rally in solidarity with the Palestinian health sector
This guide provides info on how you can to take action within your workplace/union to heed their call
#healthworkersolidarity
All power to
@usbsindacato
dockworkers mobilising for a mass action on Friday 10 Nov to block the Israeli cargo shipping company Zim.
Our movement is growing - join us!
#stopArmingIsrael
I PORTI ITALIANI RIPONDONO ALL'APPELLO DEL POPOLO PALESTINESE
Il Coordinamento Nazionale Porti di USB esprime la propria totale solidarietà verso il popolo Palestinese che sta subendo un vero e proprio genocidio da parte d'Israele...🔽🔽🔽
As Palestinian workers we make a daily commitment to stand strong for our communities.
This International Workers’ Day – Strike for a free Palestine.
Now is the time for courageous worker-led solidarity!
We still have Dreams! ❤️
“Peace and Freedom Class”
Teacher: Doa’a Qudaih / School offers English language lessons inside displaced tents in southern
#Gaza
Strip.
Israel deliberately targets medical workers and facilities. The aim is clear - it seeks to crush our ability to preserve and sustain life on our land.
Palestinian medical workers have called for urgent solidarity. Ready their call here:
The main countries involved in supplying arms and military goods to Israel are the US, Germany, Italy and the UK. It is possible to take direct action targeting the production of military & surveillance goods. Join the day of action today and tomorrow.
Thens of thousands took to the streets across 91 cities in the Spanish state demanding that the government imposes a military embargo on Israel!
#StopArmingIsrael
#CeasfireNOW
Many have been tirelessly organising to implement the call from Palestinian trade unions to
#stoparmingisrael
. Significant milestones have been achieved. Yet, much more needs to be done.
Workers can restrain Israel’s war machine!
Share & organise for Palestine with this guide
General strike called by
@si_cobas
in solidarity with🇵🇸 today. In Genoa striking workers & protestors blocked the port & a Zim ship. In Naples they picketed arms company Leonardo. Protests at Modena uni to rescind links with Israel & a strike blocked Carrefour warehouse in Turin.
Trade unions, its time to take a stand!
Unite Union (UK) members please sign this letter demanding your union take concrete and immediate steps to
#StopArmingIsrael
#endallcomplicity
Sign & support the organising efforts of
@UAW
rank-and-file members ✊🏾
Keep on organising and pressuring your union to take a stance & more importantly, commit to implement a plan to take CONCRETE action.
Workers’ solidarity can deliver real & material change on the ground
Yhasss ✊🏾 more of this & for longer!
Workers in -all- sectors can engage in concrete and material solidarity with Palestine. Use your power. The time is NOW!
#FreePalaestine
BREAKING: Belgian TV channel interrupts Eurovision to address Israel’s genocide:
“This is a union action. We condemn the human rights violations committed by Israel. Additionally, Israel is destroying press freedom. That is why we are pausing the broadcast for a moment.”
🇵🇸🔥
The Canadian Union of Public Employees (
@cupenat
), Canada’s largest union with 75,000 members, passed a resolution in solidarity with the
#Palestinian
people including calling on the government to “end its sale of arms to Israel.”
Keep on organising to
#stopArmingIsrael
"Fellow workers, particularly those in the arms and transport sectors: we urge you to think about the products you manufacture & transport. Decent employment should never come at the expense of countless Palestinian lives. This May Day strike for Palestine." PGFTU Gaza.
From under Israel’s bombardment, the workers of Gaza call for intensifying action to confront Israeli genocide.
Now is the time for courageous worker-led solidarity!
#Srtike4Palestine
#stoparmingisrael
As Israel's onslaught against Gaza persists, Palestinian workers’ unions applaud
@cgtgetafe
#Airbus
workers for their courageous action!
The banner from the in-factory march says “Airbus workers stand in solidarity with Palestine, no to arms sales to Israel.”
#StopArmingIsrael
Power to everyone taking action today against Israel’s largest private military company, Elbit Systems!
We must intensify and sustain our campaigns against those who enable Israeli crimes.
#StopArmingIsrael
BREAKING: Today, Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms manufacturer, is being shut down around the world. From the UK to Brazil, from Belgium to the US, forces join
@ProgIntl
's Global Day of Action Against Elbit Systems — against genocide — for life on earth.
Barcelona city council calls on the Spanish government to cut military ties with Israel!
This comes following consistent campaigning & the Spanish trade union movement’s endorsement of the Palestinian trade unions call to impose a military embargo on Israel
#stoparmingisrael
This is what we are talking about!
Power to all the workers taking action in solidarity with Palestine in Britain, Wales and Scotland!
#Strike4Paleatine
#PalestineMayDay
🚨BREAKING: On May Day, over 1,000 workers are blockading the UK Trade Department in London and BAE Systems’ arms factories in Scotland, Wales and Lancashire 🇵🇸 🚩
#StopArmingIsrael
The FBU is aware that pro-Palestine protesters are holding further demonstrations in Leicester.
Previously, firefighters have been asked to assist the police in removing protestors.
The FBU advises all members not to be involved in law enforcement activities.
A fantastic show of solidarity from 16 UK- Trade Unions on the huge demonstration in solidarity with
#Palestine
today. Keep up the pressure, keep organizing for Palestinian rights. Together we are strong!
#SaveSheikhJarrah
#Gaza
#StrikeforPalestine
“Part of what I think we need… is really, really centering the question of political prisoners in everything we do…”
Rafeef Ziadah at the “Palestine, Internationalism, and the Left” Workers in Palestine Day School (London, Jan 2024)
#freethemall
#FreePalesitne
#ceasfireNOW
Israel’s genocidal war is a war on workers!
Palestinian unions have called on unions and workers internationally to
#StopArmingIsrael
and to end all complicity!
It is time to move beyond statements!
It’s time for courageous worker-les solidarity!
#MayDay4Palestine
Victory in Seattle-Tacoma!
The US military vessel, Cape Orlando was successfully delayed for 8+ hours, and was picketed for 12 hours!
A worker in solidarity on the ship sends a message to us “Keep fighting, unionize, show the great powers of the world that we…”
#BlocktheBoat
Australian Services Union (ASU) rank-and-file members voted in favour of a motion calling on the ASU nationally to mobilise in solidarity with Palestine, call for an urgent ceasefire & the government to “sever military and diplomatic ties with Israel”.
#StopArmingIsrael
Power to all of the rank-and-file members who made this possible!
Keep up the pressure. If governments don’t responds - unions and workers must take decisive action to
#StopArmingIsrael
Israel Chemical Ltd (ICL) provides Monsanto (now Bayer) with phosphates for the production of the white phosphorus chemical provided to Pine Bluff Arsenal (PBA) for filling.
#StopArmingIsrael
"Israel assassina,
@ICLiberia
patrocina!"
Com a resposta a
@WorkersinPales1
ens hem concentrat amb la Taula Sindical de Catalunya fora les oficines de ICL-Iberia al Port de BCN per denunciar el rol de l'empresa en el genocidi contra el poble palestí a Gaza!
#StopArmingIsrael
"This May Day, Palestinian workers & trade unions urgently appeal: take a stand in solidarity with Palestine by joining us in collective action to disrupt business as usual." Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (Gaza)
From under Israel’s bombardment, the workers of Gaza call for intensifying action to confront Israeli genocide.
Now is the time for courageous worker-led solidarity!
#Srtike4Palestine
#stoparmingisrael
Warcriminals and profiteers must pay the price for facilitating israel’s genocidal rampage in Palestine.
Salute to all of those involved ✊🏾 Keep on building and organising - the lives of our loved ones depend on it!
Today workers and Palestine solidarity activists shut down the BAE Systems factory in Glascoed in Wales.
These comrades believe BAE Systems are supplying 155mm artillery shells to the Israeli Defence Force, potentially including banned white phosphorus munitions.
This short guide shares valuable lessons learned about building effective relations with trade unions to
#StopArmingIsrael
. Pls use & share widely. Download the guide:
The Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate warns that western media coverage of Israel's assault on Gaza "is facilitating genocide."
Media workers worldwide, organise and pressure your union to support your Palestinian peers.
#ceasfireNOW
#stoparmingisrael
Incredible!! Salute to all of the workers who have been tirelessly organising towards this victory!
Now let’s make sure the uni acts upon this motion & implements academic boycott in practice ✊🏾
Breaking: USYd NTEU branch votes 93% in favour of an academic boycott of Israel and to cut all ties with the military industry. Free Palestine
@WorkersinPales1
@NTEUNSW
@GreenLeftOnline
Israel has just bombed the Baptist hospital in Gaza. 500+ health workers, patents & people sheltering at the hospital were killed.
We must prevent the arming of the israeli state. Take immediate action to restrain israel’s war machine. Organise to
#Stoparmingisrael
According to Al Jazeera reporter Wael Dahdouh,
#Israel
apparently used a kind of bomb, which was able to release thousands of fragments in the bombing of the Baptist Hospital. "A less heavy bomb, which causes fire and massive number of deaths."
#Gaza
“If, in the labour movement, our job is to contest and combat capitalism and its depredations, solidarity is not an added extra, it’s at the core of what the labour movement should be about.”
Rob Knox at the WiP “Palestine, Internationalism, and the Left” Day School (Jan, 24).
General strike called by
@si_cobas
in solidarity with🇵🇸 today. In Genoa striking workers & protestors blocked the port & a Zim ship. In Naples they picketed arms company Leonardo. Protests at Modena uni to rescind links with Israel & a strike blocked Carrefour warehouse in Turin.