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.
Palestinian workers, remaining steadfast in pursuing their struggle for freedom and justice, have called on workers around the world to stand in solidarity with them by campaigning to end the complicity of their governments, corporations and institutions in Israel’s system of oppression.
On Nakba Day – Thursday 15 May, take action in your workplace to demand an end to government and corporate complicity in Israel’s atrocities, call for a permanent ceasefire and justice for Palestine, and mobilise for the national demonstration in London on 17 May.
Discuss with your colleagues in your branch about what kind of action is best suited to your workplace and its circumstances. Take action in your workplace:
- Organise a lunch-time walk-out in solidarity with Palestinians. Gather outside your workplace for a photo, and share it on social media (and copy us).
- Circulate a petition calling for the divestment of pension fund holdings from companies complicit in Israel’s attacks, such as arms companies supplying Israel with the weapons it uses in its attacks.
- Organise a letter writing session for your members to write to their local councillors to call on them to divest LGPS funds administered by the council from companies enabling Israel’s war crimes.
- Support the Don’t Buy Apartheid campaign by asking your workplace to commit not to stock Israeli fresh produce and Coca-Cola products. Israeli agricultural exporters and Coca-Cola operate in illegal Israeli settlements on stolen Palestinian land, using looted Palestinian resources
- Organise a lunch-time meeting, teach-in or film screening to educate colleagues about the Palestinian struggle for freedom.
- Distribute leaflets for the national demonstration for Palestine on Saturday 17th May in central London.
#workplaces4palestine FREE PALESTINE!
LINK to Nakba 77 National Demonstration Saturday 17 May
