The WFTU Presidential Council, which met at its annual meeting on the 4th and 5th of March 2025 in Hanoi, Vietnam, condemns the crimes and the barbarity of the murderous state of Israel, and expresses its support and solidarity for the heroic Palestinian People in their struggle for freedom and dignity.
The ongoing bloodshed has been going on and escalating since the 7th of October 2023 with the support and encouragement of the USA, the EU and their allies, has already resulted in tens of thousands of people losing their lives and many more injured.
After the flattening of Gaza, Israel continues its atrocities in the West Bank, with daily killings of civilians, imprisonments, bombings and destruction of infrastructure. In the last months, the Israeli aggression also expands and escalates in Lebanon, in Syria and in the wider region of the Middle East, with the open violation of borders and the mass devastating bombing of civilians. The Presidential Council expresses its support and solidarity with the Palestinian people and with the people of the region, in their struggle for sovereignty, liberation, and to repel aggression against their countries.
The recent statement of the President of the USA regarding the displacement of Palestinians from Gaza, constitutes a continuation of the longstanding and consistent US’s stance and support for the murderous state of Israel and its plans. With his statement, Trump reaffirms in unprecedented cynicism, the USA’s full support of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians. The World Federation of Trade Unions strongly denounces and condemns these statements and plans, and reaffirms its unshakeable solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people for their right to live in freedom in their own homeland, in the land that they were born.
The consistent and principled support and solidarity to the heroic Palestinian people had always been a priority for the international class-oriented trade union movement. It is clear that the only way to secure and consolidate peace and security for the people in Palestine and Israel, but also in the wider Middle East, is to immediately end the Israeli occupation and settlement in the occupied Arab territories, as provided for in the UN resolutions, and to establish an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital and guarantee the right of return of Palestinian refugees.
For the WFTU is clear that as the imperialist aggression intensifies, our solidarity must intensify too.
The workers from all around the world are in a continues struggle of supporting the Palestinian people! The militant trade unions join their voices with the Palestinian people, condemn the imperialist hypocrisy.
The WFTU, on the occasion of the 30th of March, observed as the Palestinian Land Day”, calls on its affiliates and friends, class-oriented and militant trade unions internationally to organise mobilizations and demonstrations, both in the streets, but in the workplaces as well, under the slogan:
“Free Palestine! Stop the displacement plans! Stop the ethnic cleansing”
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