Statement of the Unified Workers’ Front for the Defense of the Palestinian People (UWFPP)
On the Occasion of May Day
On this day, the working class emerges unified and distinct from all other social classes, asserting its existence as a single social force confronting the upside-down world imposed by the capitalist system — a world built on poverty, starvation, displacement, wars, systematic killings, and racist policies.
To ensure the continuity of this upside-down world, the capitalist class employs its paid writers, dubious research centers, and misleading media to sow division within the working class and prevent its struggles from advancing toward the goals of freedom and equality — for such progress would threaten the capitalists’ profits and privileges, which are built on the exploitation of wage labor.
To achieve this, they utilize all forms of nationalist, religious, ethnic, and gender-based myths. We see slogans, for example, like “America First,” “Germany First,” and “Europe First,” alongside campaigns of hostility against migrant and refugee workers — all of which are necessary tools to sustain a system based on the exploitation of human beings by other human beings.
What is happening today in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, is yet another stark manifestation of the brutal injustice of the capitalist system, and a glaring expression of the upside-down world we are forced to endure.
The genocide being perpetrated against the Palestinian people in Gaza — carried out by the Nazi-like Israeli state, across its political spectrum from right to left to center — reveals the true face of this system, whose political representatives and paid media have long tried to mask with a false humanitarian veneer.
Yet today’s events expose to the world that this system is no longer tolerable.
The fascist campaign launched by Israel against Gaza has torn off that mask, toppling the façade of democracy and human rights — and even shattering the myth of political freedoms in the liberal sense, which Western bourgeois regimes have long trumpeted.
The current campaigns to suppress freedom of expression in the United States, the targeting of voices standing in solidarity with the Palestinian people, and the desperate attempts to equate any criticism of Israel with “antisemitism,” are nothing but a new form of McCarthyism.
Their aim is to silence anyone who dares to raise their voice for freedom and equality — just as happened during the mid-20th century.
The hypocrisy of the “international community” is starkly exposed by what is happening in Gaza, just as it was in Ukraine.
Western policies — particularly those of the European Union — reveal a profoundly racist face, shedding empty tears for the people of Gaza without taking any meaningful action to hold Israeli war criminals accountable.
These criminals continue to fly their warplanes over European skies and are received with official honors in European capitals, even as they persist in committing acts of genocide against civilians in Gaza.
Meanwhile, the same media and political platforms erupt in outrage over the deaths of a few civilians in Ukraine, while turning a blind eye to the daily massacres of thousands of civilians in Gaza.
Undoubtedly, the killing, terrorizing, and displacement of civilians anywhere must be condemned unequivocally.
Yet the blatant double standards — the deliberate clamor over Ukraine’s victims versus the deafening silence over Gaza’s massacres — expose the overtly racist policies practiced by the European Union, despite its constant boasting about “human rights.”
Whatever freedoms, prosperity, and human values still survive in the West are the result of the struggles and liberation movements of the working class — struggles that the bourgeoisie has long sought to crush.
It is the working class that truly upholds the banner of freedom and equality, and it is the force that stands against the brutality of the capitalist world.
Without the working class, absolute and unrestrained oppression and exploitation would reign even more brutally than what we witness today — ushering in the law of the jungle.
Therefore, the only force capable of stopping the bloodshed in Palestine and breaking the backbone of the Nazism and fascism represented by the Israeli state — and supported by Western regimes and U.S. policies — is the working class, through its unity and organized international struggle.
On May Day, the Unified Workers’ Front for the Defense of the Palestinian People calls upon the working class worldwide, with all its organizations and formations, to assume its historical and moral responsibilities toward the Palestinian cause, as it is an international and profoundly human cause.
The liberation of the working class is the key to freeing humanity from all forms of national, ethnic, religious, and gender oppression.
The gross national injustice inflicted upon the Palestinian people stands as one of the greatest stains on contemporary humanity — a stain that demands that the working class, as the true bearer of the banner of liberation and equality, place this cause at the forefront of its struggles.
Ending the national oppression of the Palestinian people — manifested in the ongoing genocide and in the denial of Palestinian workers and citizens of their right to live in dignity and security — is the path to achieving genuine peace and security in the region.
The establishment of an independent, free, and just Palestinian state is a fundamental demand for all who struggle for justice and human liberation.
Long Live May Day, the International Day of Workers’ Solidarity
April 17, 2025