“We support the call to declare war on war” – Australian health workers support the rally on July 24

The Australian Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee (HWRFC) met this month and unanimously passed a resolution, published below, supporting the call by the Socialist Equality Party, the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) and the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) for a demonstration on July 24 in Washington DC against the US visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The meeting was attended by doctors, nurses, geriatric and disability care workers, and hospital workers. Discussions focused on the horrific impact of the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza, which according to recent reports has killed nearly 200,000 Palestinians, and the link between the wars of US imperialism and its allies abroad and the government’s increasing attacks on public health, education and other social services at home.

Health workers discussed the Albanese Labor government’s increasing attacks on various aspects of health care and the Labor government in Victoria’s state of Victoria’s order to public hospital administrators to cut their annual operating budgets by hundreds of millions of dollars.

This meeting of the Health Workers Rank & File Committee (Australia) supports the July 24 demonstration in Washington DC against the genocidal war in Gaza and the US Congress’s decision to invite war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak there. We call on all who are able to attend the event, in as many different ways as possible.