On January 6, health care workers and allies gathered in front of hospitals in cities such as Boston, New York, Minneapolis and San Francisco to demand an end to the destruction of hospitals in Gaza, the arrest and abuse of doctors and other providers, and the ongoing genocide. So far at least 885 healthcare workers in Gaza have been killed and 128 remain in custody. Israel is preparing to kill off as many Gazans as possible with even more urgency, attempting to deny the entry of any food or water or any medical care. Some U.S. health workers called in sick in order to participate. 

In New York City, a few comrades joined with the hundreds gathered outside NYU Tisch hospital, a pro-Zionist institution that has fired and harassed health workers for just mentioning support of Gaza. The demonstrations were organized by Within Our Lifetime, Doctors Against Genocide and Health Care Workers for Palestine.  But there is little hope for Palestinians without a mass movement that calls for class based international unity to rid the world of capitalism and imperialism, an idea that several comrades regularly put forward in these organizations as we join their actions. It is not enough to choose between the collaborators of the Palestinian Authority or the Islamic fundamentalists of Hamas who call for martyrdom. Workers of the world must unite for a society we run for ourselves, a communist world.