ON SUNDAY April 28 I commemorated International Workers’ Memorial Day, remembering the dead and fighting for the living. This May Day, this is even more important as thoughts of the global working class are focused on Palestine. 

The doctors, journalists and aid workers who have paid the ultimate price for doing their job. The alleged reports of mass graves at two destroyed Gazan hospital sites, including medical staff still in scrubs who refused to abandon their patients. Journalists targeted while clearly identified as press, or as with Wael al Dahdouh, his family targeted and bombed while he was reporting live on air. 

The killings of the World Central Kitchen (WCK) aid workers have added to the ever-growing picture of workers in Gaza being targeted. Our government is complicit in their deaths, refusing to condemn clear violations of international humanitarian law, resisting calls for a ceasefire and continuing arms sales to Israel.