“O workers of the world, crush the hell of imperialism”
O masses of our working class… O revolutionaries of our steadfast people,
The first of May, International Workers’ Day, arrives as a living embodiment of a historical journey of continuous confrontation against exploitation and injustice, cemented by the blood of workers, during which rights were extracted through decades of struggle and sacrifice.
This day, which marked a milestone in the history of the international labor movement, renews its presence this year in our Palestinian reality, burdened with unprecedented pain, where its combative symbolism mixes with a daily scene of suffering and steadfastness.
We, in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, as we commemorate this glorious occasion and evoke its revolutionary meanings, extend our greetings of reverence and esteem to the martyrs, prisoners, and wounded of the Palestinian labor movement, and to the struggles and sacrifices of the Arab and international labor movement, which were cemented by the blood of workers throughout history for the sake of liberation, social justice, and human dignity.
On this occasion, we affirm that the Palestinian worker is facing one of the most severe stages of targeting today, in light of a war of genocide that targets their physical existence and their ability to survive and produce, and seeks to undermine the foundations of their life and human dignity. What our workers are going through, especially in the Gaza Strip, exceeds traditional descriptions of crises; we are facing a total and comprehensive destruction of the production system, a systematic strike at the foundations of life, and paralysis in the production sector that has led to hundreds of thousands losing their livelihoods. Unemployment rates have reached suffocating levels, turning our working community into a victim of comprehensive aggression, a tight siege, and widespread destruction of factories and workshops. The “food basket” is also being subjected to annihilation, as farmers and fishermen face a scorched-earth policy; agricultural lands have been crushed, fishing boats destroyed, and production areas turned into fields of death and hunger.
The economy has also suffered heavy losses as a result of targeting workers in the occupied West Bank and exhausting them, which caused deep social shock and led to the spread of poverty and the accumulation of debts. The journey in search of work has turned into a daily confrontation with bullets and arrests at checkpoints and walls, where martyrs are killed and the wounded injured while they strive to secure the livelihood of their families.
O masses of the toilers and makers of life… O revolutionaries of truth, freedom, and steadfastness,
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, on this occasion, while renewing its commitment to defending the toiling classes, confirms the following:
1. We affirm our absolute commitment to the rights and interests of the Palestinian working class and our struggling people as a whole for the sake of their freedom, independence, and right of return and the establishment of their independent state with Al-Quds as its capital, in the face of comprehensive targeting that affects their existence and ability to survive and produce.
2. We demand binding policies that protect the rights of the toilers and guarantee the minimum level of decent living and social justice, through official laws and collective agreements that guarantee their rights and establish a fair minimum wage.
3. We renew the call to restore national unity and formulate a comprehensive strategy to confront the war of genocide and liquidation schemes, leading to the building of a steadfast economy liberated from the restrictions of agreements that pledge the livelihood to the will of the occupation.
4. We emphasize the necessity of rebuilding the Palestinian trade union movement on democratic and representative foundations through fair and comprehensive elections, building an international labor front in cooperation with international unions, and escalating boycotts, strikes, and political pressure tools, including boycotting the “Histadrut” and withdrawing investments from the war economy and the apartheid system.
5. We call for escalating field movement in ports and factories to disrupt supply chains and stop the tools of killing and destruction, expanding the international movement of unions and free people to lift restrictions on food production, and turning the union stance into a global pressure force to stop the genocide, break the siege, and end the occupation.
Long live the first of May as a day for struggle and liberation.. and victory to the toilers and the oppressed.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Central Media Department
01/05/2026
