May Day events commemorating this year’s International Workers’ Solidarity Day will take place this week with several rallies, demonstrations and debates across Israel, including in Tel Aviv, Nazareth, Ramleh, Kufr Yassif and Abu Snan in the Western Galilee, and other localities.

May Day in Nazareth: “The three monkeys and the war in Gaza”, May 2024 (Photo: Zo Haderekh)

Activists from Hadash (The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality), the Communist Party of Israel (CPI) and the Young Communist League are involved in the planning and preparations for all these May Day events, collaborating with other leftist, environmental and militant union activists.  “This year, like the previous year, we are marking May Day, against the criminal war, starvation and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, against the occupation of the Palestinian territories and against the fascist Israeli government, for a just peace and the rights of the working class in Israel. Our struggle is one and for us May Day is a symbol of this struggle,” said organizers.

The central May Day demonstration being organized by Hadash and the CPI will be held, as it is every year, in Nazareth. On next Saturday, May 3, a mass march will take place along Tawfiq Zyad street in the center of the city beginning at 10:30.

In Tel Aviv, Communist, Hadash, Standing Together, labor and social activists, youth groups and environmental movements will convene next Friday, May 2, at 11:00 at King George Street in front of the Likud headquarters for another demonstration against the deadly war in Gaza and demanding the far-right government honor the social, environmental and civil rights of the population.

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