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Strikers stated that this mobilization is just the start, cautioning that ‘today it’s the ports, tomorrow it will be the entire logistics sector’

Dockworkers across the Mediterranean Sea staged a massive coordinated strike on 6 February, halting activity in more than 20 ports to protest the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the privatization and militarization of port infrastructure.

Union organizers described the action as the result of long-standing dockworker solidarity with Palestine and their own fight for dignified working conditions at home.

Ahead of the strike, ships that “regularly transport military cargo to Israel” altered their itineraries.

Demonstrations began in ports across Greece, Turkiye, and the Basque Country, where the Liman-İş Sendikası rallied hundreds of members to deliver a message “against genocide and in solidarity with Palestine.”

In Greece, dockworkers highlighted a contradiction between substantial European investment in rearmament and the austerity measures that cut public services, which they argued has compromised safety conditions.

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