Workers for a Free Palestine
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🚨BREAKING: On May Day, over 1,000 workers are blockading the UK Trade Department in London and BAE Systems’ arms factories in Scotland, Wales and Lancashire 🇵🇸 🚩
#StopArmingIsrael
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BREAKING: Hundreds of trade unionists are blockading major arms factories in England and Scotland that manufacture weapons supplied to Israel.
We will not stand by as weapons made in Britain are used to commit genocide against the Palestinian people!
#ShutItDown4Palestine
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BREAKING: Over 1000 trade unionists at multiple sites across Britain are blockading arms factories that are supplying arms to Israel! 🇵🇸
#ShutItDown4Palestine
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BREAKING: 400+ trade unionists are blockading multiple entrances to an arms factory in Kent which provides weapons for the Israeli military.
We demand an immediate
#CEASEFIRENOW
to halt the killing of civilians in Palestine & an end to British complicity in Israeli war crimes!
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Health care workers, striking doctors and supporters are shutting down Palantir’s London HQ.
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🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨
Health Workers For a Free Palestine are blockading NHS England HQ to protest their contract with Palantir, a US spy tech company that is resourcing Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people.
Cancel the contract! ❌
No genocide enablers in the
#NHS
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🇵🇸 We’ve been taking action to shut down arms factories in Britain supplying Israel — but who exactly are we & how can you get involved?
(THREAD)
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This is what solidarity looks like 🇵🇸❤️
Over 1000 trade unionists across 4 arms factory sites - including 600+ at this one in Dorset - taking direct action to disrupt the flow of arms to Israel.
Genocide & war crimes: not in our name.
Long live Palestine✊🏼
#StopArmingIsrael
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🚨BREAKING: BAE SYSTEMS IN GLASGOW BLOCKADED 🇵🇸
In solidarity with Palestine over 100 people are blockading the entrance to BAE Systems in Govan!
This action is supported by a group of Edinburgh residents responding to the Palestinian call to disrupt the Israeli arms trade. ✊
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📍 Bournemouth
📍 Lancashire
📍 Brighton
📍 Glasgow
Today trade unionists have shut down 4 sites in Britain which produce components for the F-35 fighter jet currently being used in Israel's bombardment of Gaza.
#StopArmingIsrael
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Today workers and Palestine solidarity activists shut down the BAE Systems factory in Glascoed in Wales.
These comrades believe BAE Systems are supplying 155mm artillery shells to the Israeli Defence Force, potentially including banned white phosphorus munitions.
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📍 LANCASHIRE, ENGLAND
Over 200 trade unionists have blockaded two entrances at the Samlesbury Aerodrome in Lancashire.
The rear fuselage of every F-35 fighter jet - currently being used in the bombardment of Gaza - is made by BAE Systems at this site.
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Marching together in London today for a free Palestine 🇵🇸
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Hundreds are blockading a BAE Systems factory in Rochester, England.
BAE Systems produces the of Israel's F-35 fighter jets, currently being used by Israel to bombard Gaza.
The targeting systems used by pilots is made by BAE Systems Rochester.
Today we have SHUT IT DOWN! 🇵🇸
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📍 GLASGOW, SCOTLAND
The BAE Govan site has been SHUT DOWN by Glasgow residents.
At this site, BAE Systems produce components of the F-35 stealth aircrafts and the Mk 38 Mod 2 machine gun system.
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🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨
Protest outside Google’s London HQ in support of the
@NoTechApartheid
campaign!
Google & Amazon workers are demanding an end to the Project Nimbus contract with Israel, which is complicit in the surveillance & oppression of Palestinians.
Solidarity! ✊🇵🇸
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📍 Leonardo UK, Edinburgh
For 3 hours and counting trade unionists have been blockading entrances to this site, which produces components for the F-35 stealth combat aircraft used by Israel in its bombardment of Gaza.
If you are in / near Edinburgh, please join the picket! ✊
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🚨🇵🇸 Join the picket outside the Royal Society Of Arts, 8 John Adam Street, just next to Charing X station.
Without informing anyone, the RSA is holding a fundraiser for Israel with Isaac Herzog & Tzipi Hotovely in attendance.
War criminals not welcome! ❌
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📍 GE Aviation Systems, Cheltenham
We have successfully blockaded all entrances and streams of cars are being turned away! Despite efforts to try and stop us, we are speaking to workers & explaining why we're taking action today.✊
Genocide: not in our name!
#StopArmingIsrael
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We are Workers for a Free Palestine. 🇵🇸
We are calling for:
❗an end to the British government's complicity in Israel's war crimes, including through arms sales
❗an immediate, permanent ceasefire
❗an end to the occupation of Palestine
Join us ➡️
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📍 BRIGHTON, ENGLAND
Brighton & Hove Action for Palestine are targeting the ‘L3Harris Release & Integrated Solutions Ltd’ factory based in Brighton & Hove.
The factory equips US supplied F-16s and F-35s being used by the IDF in the current bombardment of Gaza.
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GE Aviation Systems in Cheltenham and Leonardo UK in Edinburgh have been shut down.
Both these sites produce components for the F-35 stealth combat aircraft currently being used by Israeli forces in its bombardment of Gaza.
#StopArmingIsrael
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📍 WIMBOURNE, ENGLAND
All three entrances to Eaton Mission Systems have been SHUT DOWN!
The company an open export licence to export goods for the F-35 aircraft.
The factory currently being blockaded makes the F-35's in-flight refuelling probe at its facility in Wimbourne.
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But it's not just in Britain. Across France, the Netherlands and Denmark, our counterparts are also taking action at arms factories to
#ShutItDown4Palestine
!
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Israel is carrying out a genocide and forcing Palestinians off their land using weapons manufactured in Britain.
🇵🇸 Join us on 7 December to shut down arms factories resourcing Israel’s war crimes!
Sign up ⬇️
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“Workers of the world unite, stand with Palestine and fight!” 🇵🇸✊
#FreePalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
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BAE Systems you can’t hide: we charge you with genocide!
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We demand:
- Cancel the Palantir NHS contract
- Bring all public services data management in house
- End the privatisation, asset stripping and outsourcing of public services to corporations
- No public service deals with companies complicit in the Israeli occupation
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Yes Glasgow ✊✊✊
Please support by donating to their crowdfunder:
Dozens of Glasgow residents have been blocking entrances to arms manufacturer Thales in Govan since 5am this morning, on Nakba Day.
This is the scene at the main entrance.
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We are Workers For a Free Palestine. 🇵🇸
We are calling for:
🔴 An arms embargo and an end to the British government's complicity in Israel's war crimes
🔴 A full & permanent ceasefire
🔴 An end to the occupation of Palestine
Join us:
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1.5 million people are currently trapped in Rafah, facing mass hunger and unbearable living conditions. In the midst of this catastrophic threat to life, Israel is preparing for a ground offensive.
We have a duty to do all we can to disrupt Israel's war machine!
#HandsOffRafah
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If arms company bosses and Britain’s political elite won’t impose an arms embargo, we, the workers, will continue enforcing it from below ✊🏾
#StopArmingIsrael
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As the genocide reaches its 208th day, with 40,000 Palestinians having been killed, the British Government still refuses to place an embargo on arms to Israel. So British workers are enforcing an embargo through direct action in response to a call from Palestinian trade unions!
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Brighton this morning ⬇️✊
In freezing temperatures the community came out to
#ShutItDown4Palestine
This movement isn’t going anywhere!
#StopArmingIsrael
#FreePalestine
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Breaking: Brighton arms factory L3Harris making weapons used to bomb Gaza blocked by 40 local activists, workers and community members.
Residents of Brighton and Hove do not want to be complicit in the genocide of men, women and children in Gaza and the West Bank.
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☀️ The sun is shining & we are shutting down a BAE Systems factory to demand:
🇵🇸 an END to UK complicity in war crimes being committed in Palestine
🇵🇸 an END to arms sales to Israel
🇵🇸 an immediate CEASEFIRE
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Join the next arms factory picket on 7 December! 🇵🇸
After 2 successful actions, we will be mobilising once again to disrupt Israel’s war machine, challenge British complicity in war crimes & call for a permanent ceasefire.
Will you join us? ✊
SIGN UP:
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Today’s ICJ ruling underscores the duty of the British government, & governments around the world, to halt arms exports to Israel.
But we cannot rely on any government or court to deliver justice, or to force the urgent action that is needed to stop Israel’s genocidal assault.
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🚀 LAUNCHED: Charity Workers For a Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
CWFFP is a collective of workers from across the charity and third sector in Britain, united against genocide and standing wholly with the Palestinian people in their struggle for liberation.
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Today we
#ShutItDown4Palestine
. 🇵🇸
Palestinian trade unions have called on workers around the world to help stop Israeli war crimes. We are answering that call.
#StopArmingIsrael
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HOSPITALS: NOT A TARGET!
NURSES: NOT A TARGET!
DOCTORS: NOT A TARGET!
PALESTINIANS: NOT A TARGET!
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From the streets to the workplace, solidarity forever!
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
✊🇵🇸✊
#FreePalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
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🚨LOCATION UPDATE FOR MAY DAY 🚨
For 7 months we've protested against the genocide in Gaza. We've forced the topic of an arms embargo onto the agenda, but the government and the arms industry bosses refuse to act.
If they won't enforce an embargo, we will enforce it ourselves!
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Civil servants in the Trade Department have requested to cease work immediately on arms export licences to Israel and their union, PCS, is considering bringing legal action to prevent members from being forced to carry out unlawful acts which contribute to war crimes in Gaza.
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🇵🇸 SHUT IT DOWN FOR PALESTINE!
We will not stand by as weapons made in Britain are used by Israel to commit genocide.
Join the next round of arms factory pickets, as we answer Palestinian trade unions’ call for global solidarity. ✊
Sign up here:
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“At Workers For a Free Palestine’s first action there were 100 people involved, at the second, 400; last week, there were 1,000.” ⬇️
The movement against Israel’s war crimes and Britain’s complicity in them is growing. Join us 🇵🇸
#StopArmingIsrael
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🧵THREAD: Why did we shut down the Department of Business & Trade (DBT)?
Yesterday, our May Day action saw hundreds of workers blockading the entrances to this major government department. 🇵🇸
Here’s why ⬇️
#StopArmingIsrael
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🚨Join our May Day action: KEY INFO
📍 Meet up point: Lord Curzon Statue, SW1Y 5EW
⏰ 7:30am Wednesday 1 May
📲 Join Telegram group for updates via linktree 🔗
#StopArmingIsrael
#PeoplesArmsEmbargo
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HOW CAN YOU JOIN?
🍉 sign up!
Stay updated on future actions & events
🍉 join the workers’ assemblies!
Fill out the form on our website.
🍉 chip in!
Our actions cost a lot of money & we find them through donations — support us by chipping in today!
🇵🇸
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Streams of cars are being turned away due to the blockade! ✊🏼🇵🇸
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❓WHO ARE WE?
Workers for a Free Palestine is a grassroots collective of workers and trade unionists in Britain organising for a free Palestine! 🇵🇸
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1: we are the workers!
2: we won’t be silent!
3: stop the contract!
NOW! NOW! NOW!
#FreePalestine
🇵🇸
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❓WHAT DO WE DO?
We organise mass pickets of weapons factories in Britain resourcing Israel’s war crimes!
🇵🇸 Our operations across the country have shut down operations in companies supplying weapons to Israel.
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❓WHY DO WE DO IT?
Over 30 Palestinian trade unions & professional associations have issued a united call to end all complicity and stop arming Israel.
We are now heeding this call from our comrades in Palestine.
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A wave of People’s Arms Embargoes is sweeping across England, Scotland & Wales, as workers & trade unionists shut down factories used by the UK’s leading military goods manufacturer, BAE Systems, and the Department of Business and Trade which enables this genocide profiteering.
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We are from all walks of life — health workers, teachers, hospitality workers, academics, artists & more.
🇵🇸 We are members of a wide range of trade unions, including Unite, UNISON, GMB, NEU, BMA, BECTU, BFAWU & more!
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Donate to help cover the costs of today's action:
✊🇵🇸✊🇵🇸✊
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"If you fund Israeli bombs we'll shut you down..." 🎶
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Visit our website for the full statement and to register for more information:
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With more than 30,000 Palestinians killed, and 1.5 million people trapped in Rafah facing military bombardment and mass starvation, our solidarity cannot waver.
Now is the time to scale up our action in the streets, in communities and crucially - in the workplace.
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Save the date!!! Join us on 1 May in London.
Why are we taking action?
Come to our mobilising call this Wednesday 24th at 7:30 to hear from Palestinian activists and how you can get involved.
Sign up via our Linktree:
#StopArmingIsrael
#ArmsEmbargoNow
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🎶If you make Israeli weapons, we’ll shut you down!🎶
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BBC news reporting on our successful blockade of the BAE Systems factory in Rochester yesterday ⬇️
As workers & trade unionists, we will not stand by and let genocide happen with the backing of the British government & its arms industry!
#CeasefireNOW
#FreePalestine
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For 7 hours, we successfully blockaded BAE Systems Rochester — nothing came in or out.
We leave successful, having shut down a key UK factory arming Israel’s genocide.
We will be back, we will be bigger & we will continue shutting down UK factories making Israeli weapons!
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“We want you to stand next to us”
We’re hearing from someone in Palestine, who is telling us about the horrors taking place and why it’s essential we take action stop the killing.
We are with you.
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EATON MISSION, SHAME SHAME!
ALL THE CRIMES IN YOUR NAME!
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Calling on all workers to organise for Palestine liberation in your workplace!
Palestinian workers and their allies from around the world have been exposing the levels of complicity in the genocide on Gaza from institutions globally.
Join our ongoing conversations! Link in bio🔗
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"Genocide starts in Glasgow."
Workers across Britain are refusing to stay silent whilst genocide is committed with arms produced on our doorsteps.
We demand an end to British complicity in war crimes!
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Huge respect to PSC members raising these concerns - this is exactly what British workers should be doing to disrupt British complicity in genocide! ✊
#StopArmingIsrael
BREAKING: Officials working in the Department for Business and Trade have threatened to stop working over UK arms sales to Israel
Sky's
@mattuthompson
has the latest from Westminster ⬇️
Latest:
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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We're out and about this morning around Hull, Rochester and Sandwich chatting to arms factories workers about organising in their workplaces to take action against arming the genocide. Sign up below to come to our next action or to get involved!
✊🇵🇸🇵🇸
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We also organise assemblies where workers can come together & share learnings and strategies for effective Palestine solidarity organising in and across workplaces & unions.
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On 20th March we take action once again to disrupt the flow of arms to Israel - and we need you to join us.
Sign up here:
We will not stand by as weapons made in Britain are used to resource Israel’s genocide!
#FreePalestine
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Local residents near the Samlesbury site came to support the picket, with loads of food including delicious home cooked treats! This is what solidarity looks like. 🇵🇸❤️
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“We are united in our struggle”
We’re hearing from a worker in Palestine, who is emphasising the importance of international solidarity with Palestine 🍉
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Eaton Mission you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide!
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BAE Systems’ complicity in genocide will not go unknown.
Our blockade in Reuters:
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In the wind and in the rain — stop the killing, stop the pain!
We’re here blockading BAE Systems Rochester, the factory making parts of Israeli fighter jets being used to bomb Gaza.
CEASEFIRE NOW!
STOP ARMING ISRAEL!
THE UK IS COMPLICIT!
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Full solidarity with trade unionists in Gaza facing these horrific attacks.
On 20th March we will once again be answering Palestinian trade unions’ call for global solidarity by picketing arms factories in Britain resourcing Israel’s genocide.
Join us:
Israeli forces have destroyed the headquarters of the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions in Gaza.
The headquarters have been bombed three times and three subsidiary headquarters in Al-Rimal neighborhood and Yarmouk Street have been destroyed.
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In support of the call for an economic blockade, London is taking action on April 15th.
With our comrades across the world, we will disrupt the flow of capital that funds genocide.
No business as usual!
#StopArmingIsrael
! Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Visit for more
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Workshops & shared meals now happening on the picket 🇵🇸🤝
Discussions focusing on examples of workplace organising for Palestine, including health workers, tech workers, students, cultural workers and university workers! 💥
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We are responding to a call for support from healthcare workers in Palestine.
Healthcare workers across the world: read their call here and let’s get organising in our workplaces and in our unions for a free Palestine!
Palestinian healthcare workers called upon their colleagues worldwide to rally in solidarity with the Palestinian health sector
This guide provides info on how you can to take action within your workplace/union to heed their call
#healthworkersolidarity
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Join us today!
📍Old Admiralty Building, Admiralty Place, London, SW1A 2DY
📍BAE Glascoed, Usk, Wales NP15 1XL
📍BAE Govan Rd, Glasgow G51 4XP
📍BAE Systems, Samlesbury Aerodrome, Balderstone, Lancashire, BB2 7LF
💰 Donate to help cover costs if you can:
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A powerful picket speech from someone with family in Gaza:
"They have nowhere to go. They are going to be pushed into Egypt. This is what the world is witnessing."
Weapons made in Britain are being used to prop up this ethnic cleansing & genocide.
We must
#StopArmingIsrael
!
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Are you organising in your workplace or school for Palestine? It's more critical than ever to pressure those in power to stop the killings. Start plugging in with like-minded people in your industry NOW!
Sign up via our linktree:
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People continue to arrive to the BAE Systems Govan factory to be part of the blockade
The action is happening at sites across the UK and Glasgow’s is organised with
@Workers4Pal
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🚨BREAKING: Hundreds blocking entrances to TTM Technologies in Scarborough. This plant supplies military circuit boards to Israel for fighter jets & Elbit’s targeted missile systems. We’re here with workers and allies from across the GTA demanding Canada
#StopArmingGenocide
now.
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WEDNESDAY: Come to the KCL UCU teachout for the workplace day of action for Palestine! 🇵🇸
Hear from activists involved in Workers For a Free Palestine about organising to disrupt Israel’s war machine ✊
Last week we joined the 1 million strong march calling for
#CeasefireNOW
& our amazing students demanding
#StopArmingIsrael
. This week, we're responding to the
@STWuk
call & organising a teach out on Wednesday 15 Nov at 12:30pm, on the Strand, to discuss how we can stop the war.
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They are calling for:
- an arms embargo to Israel
- an end to the bombing on Yemen - an immediate ceasefire & end to the genocide in Gaza
Please support the action by chipping in to cover costs: 🇵🇸
#StopArmingIsrael
#FreePalestine
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🚨March 2024 is a Free Palestine Coalition month of action.
📢We will keep taking to the streets, disrupt business as usual and picket for Palestine until our demands are met.
🇵🇸 Ceasefire Now, Stop Arming Israel, End the Occupation, Lift the Siege on Gaza!
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At this pivotal moment, as Palestinians starve and Israel prepares for a catastrophic ground invasion in Rafah, our solidarity cannot and will not waver.
#HandsOffRafah
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✊✊✊
General strike called by
@si_cobas
in solidarity with🇵🇸 today. In Genoa striking workers & protestors blocked the port & a Zim ship. In Naples they picketed arms company Leonardo. Protests at Modena uni to rescind links with Israel & a strike blocked Carrefour warehouse in Turin.
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Only sustained organising by mass movements across the world can achieve this.
So we invite you to join our next workers’ assembly for Palestine, happening in London at 6:30pm Wed 31 Jan.
NOW is the time to ramp up our solidarity organising ✊
Sign up:
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Evidence from the Amnesty International Crisis Evidence Lab, confirmed by the Washington Post and Human Rights Watch, shows that the IDF have used white phosphorous rounds in Gaza and Lebanon.
More info here:
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We will continue taking action to disrupt the flow of arms between Britain and Israel. And we will continue organising in our workplaces to end complicity in Israel's genocide. Join us.
➡️
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Civil servants in the DBT have requested to cease work immediately on arms export licences to Israel and their union, PCS, is considering bringing legal action to prevent their members from being forced to carry out unlawful acts which contribute to war crimes in Gaza.
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We demand an arms embargo. This means:
- An end to licensing of of all military exports
- No more repairing & servicing arms
- No more military support to Israel
- No more surveillance flights over Gaza
- No more US military aid flowing through British air force bases
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Today is
#NakbaDay
, and this year marks 76 years since the dispossession and ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
We understand the Nakba to be ongoing. Every day, we bear witness to the displacement, dispossession, imprisonment, exploitation, murder & maiming of Palestinians.
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BREAKING: Activists interrupt
@DavidLammy
speech to call for
#CeasefireNOW
in Gaza 🇵🇸✊
BREAKING: we interrupted
@DavidLammy
's speech 5 times to demand he calls for
#CeasefireNOW
in Gaza
Free Palestine Coalition activists told the Shadow Foreign Minister to end Labour's support for Israel's
#genocide
in Palestine 🇵🇸
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Nexter Systems is known to be responsible for the production of white phosphorous rounds.
White phosophorous rounds are explicitly banned under international humanitarian law, and their use against civilian populations is considered a war crime.
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