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Dockworkers at more than 20 Mediterranean ports are planning a strike next week to protest arms shipments to Israel and their governments’ "complicity" in the Gaza genocide, demanding an immediate halt to weapons transfers.
The Italy-based grassroots dockworkers’ union, Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), announced it will participate in an international general strike on February 6.
“If we don’t take this step, all our other demands will be crushed under war,” Francesco Staccioli of USB warned.
Italian dockworkers will join colleagues across Greece, the Basque Country, Morocco, and Turkey in a coordinated action opposing the growing militarization of key transport infrastructure.
The strike aims to prevent arms shipments, reject rearmament, and oppose the impact of a war economy on workers’ rights and social security systems.
According to organizers, the day of action will help “ensure that European and Mediterranean ports are places of peace, free from any involvement in war.”
Representatives from USB have stated that industrial action against genocide, militarization of ports, and US imperialism are inseparable from local labor struggles...
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