Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 06.05.2025
In Israel in the public sector, Arabs and Jews are teachers and doctors. The government of Netanyahu plans to cut their salaries. To finance the criminal war against the Gazans and to commit another Nakba. A strike of the Doctor and the teachers is going on. The government does not take from the very rich companies, but wants the workers and the middle class to pay for this war. Putting an end to this criminal war is in the interest of the workers and the doctors.
About 140 schools and about 25 kindergartens across the country did not open the school day on Monday, in protest of the cut in their salaries, according to a report on the Histadrut website.. This is even though the sanctions imposed by the Teachers’ Union officially ended yesterday, with a compromise reached between the bureaucracy and the Ministry of Finance, according to which the planned salary reduction would be reduced to one percent of the salary.
At the same time, the head of the Teachers’ Union, Yaffa Ben-David, agreed to a reduction in other components of teachers’ salaries – and therefore the forced contribution of teaching workers to the war and occupation budget as a result of a combination between Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Histadrut Chairman Arnon Bar-David remains in place.
The Jerusalem Post writes: “Doctors join widening protest against public sector salary cuts. This comes amid dozens of teachers and education staff who continued their “sick day” strike on Tuesday over planned budget cuts.
Some 200 doctors working in hospitals, health funds, and clinics stayed home on Tuesday as part of a widening protest against salary cuts in the public sector.
The doctors’ protest group, made up of over 1,200 physicians, specialists, interns, and senior doctors, warned that the action could intensify in the coming days”
To win this strike, it is necessary not only to turn it into a general strike but political as well, to demand that Israel leave Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria now. To understand that the real enemy is not the Palestinians but the capitalist and their servants in the government, without any illusions in the opposition.
This is the time to struggle for a constitutional assembly that will include the Palestinian refugees as part of the struggle for one democratic state for all the people of this country.
For one democratic state for all the people of this country, including the Palestinian refugees!