Dockworkers from over 20 Mediterranean ports are set to carry out coordinated industrial action on 6 February, following this week’s announcement by dockworkers’ unions, including Italy’s Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), targeting port authorities’ and governments’ complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
The planned action will take place simultaneously in ports across Italy, Greece, the Basque Country, Morocco, and Turkiye, with the aim of disrupting arms shipments, opposing rearmament, and challenging the use of civilian transport infrastructure for war logistics, the organizers announced.
USB said the mobilization is a response to the accelerating militarization of port infrastructure and the broader war economy, which unions assert is eroding workers’ rights and undermining social protection systems.
At least 10 Italian ports have already confirmed participation, building on dockworker actions that began in 2023 against weapons shipments to the Israelis.
The union stressed that the strike is meant to “ensure that European and Mediterranean ports are places of peace, free from any involvement in war.”
i'm been hearing about how italy is showing the world how well collectivism can work and it makes me wonder why it works there, but not here.
Because USians are too brainwashed into only caring about themselves and their unions have been hijacked.
brainwashing doesn't exist, many of their unions are tacitly zionist because it materially benefits the imperial core for "israel" to exist and to a lesser extent the labor aristocracy that live and work there
It doesn't really benefit the imperial core for Israel to exist though. Israel is dragging the imperial core down with itself.
"israel" is extremely useful for us power projection in the middle east, it is in their own words "an unsinkable aircraft carrier"
the entity is used for attacks on the us empire's enemies in the region and it's existence keeps the surrounding countries busy
they can't fight "israel" because the us will retaliate, but they can't defy the us because "israel" will find some flimsy justification as to why that country is a threat to itself
it is in essence a mad dog kept barely leashed for attacking the us's enemies with plausible deniability
In the words of the person who received the most amount of AIPAC dollars in their lifetime you mean.
There is no aircraft carrier. US bases are all over the middle east EXCEPT in Israel.