Mobilizing Workers in Support of Palestine &
Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) Abolition
This International Workers’ Day, we at Critical Resistance (CR) are moving in the long legacy of working class resistance and international solidarity. We're answering the call to action by the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions and the many who will turn out today both to uplift the historic struggle of May Day and act in solidarity with Palestinian liberation and anti-colonial struggle. We understand the urgency of action given the threat against Rafah and the threat of famine.
We also want to spotlight the bravery of students across the country and the world who are setting up ongoing protests demanding that their colleges and universities engage in meaningful divestment from the Israeli apartheid regime. We know that agents of the PIC defend the interests of capital and we are seeing violent policing be deployed to crush dissent - even in the country’s elite institutions. But with every wave of repression, more and more join the fight for Palestine and collective liberation.
It’s inspiring to witness the unity across leftists internationally and so many everyday folks calling for an immediate and lasting ceasefire. Both today and for the past several months since October, CR members from around the country are taking action in support of Palestine - engaging in economic disruption more broadly, or in direct solidarity with the student protestors, and more.
As we’re seeing increasing criminalization, policing and imprisonment of vulnerable communities and the targeting of protestors, including immigrants, women and gender oppressed people, and those engaging in anti-racial and anti-colonial struggles, we know that it is our solidarity with each other that will get us to collective freedom. CR remains steadfast in our commitment to bring PIC abolitionist praxis to our solidarity with Palestine and working class resistance globally.
