The United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers, Local 36, Los Angeles, California, USA, stands in full solidarity with the Greek PAME Labor Federation and the working class of Greece to condemn the draconian government attacks on the democratic right to strike and demonstrate. As an affiliated labor organization through the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), we are particularly alarmed by this official anti-worker aggression.

Greek government, following a series of anti-union measures of SYRIZA, has announced new laws intended to use police to ban protests and strikes. It is clear that these anti-union actions of liberal governments are not specific to Greece, but represent a new international advance of monopoly capital against all workers.

The right to strike and protest are the most fundamental expressions of workers’ struggle and will never be compromised. We are in total accord with PAME’s response that “These measures we will make them empty words. They will remain on paper! They will not impose graveyard silence into the trade union movement.”

The intensifying contradiction of the people vs monopoly capital requires that workers everywhere defend against attacks on the democratic rights of workers anywhere. An injury to one is an injury to all!