Hands off the president of the ENEDEP Dockworkers Union!
Stop now the prosecution for the mobilization that blocked the transport of military equipment for the massacre in Gaza!

PAME condemns the new vile attempt to intimidate the labour movement through the prosecution of the president of the ENEDEP Dockworkers Union and the Piraeus Labour Center for the mobilization that blocked a container loaded with bullets from being shipped. Those bullets were bound for Israel for the massacre of children and civilians in Gaza and the West Bank.

A year after the powerful mobilization of the dockworkers of Piraeus, when the workers stood tall and blocked the loading of containers with military supplies and millions of bullets for the murderous state of Israel, the mechanisms of the so-called “rule of law” are being deployed to punish solidarity and send a message of submission.

Their “justice” is fully aligned with the goals of the war economy and the militarized budgets, which translate into intensified repression, restriction of democratic freedoms, and the criminalization of trade union action and every voice that resists imperialist wars and Greece’s involvement in them.

This prosecution comes immediately after the return of the ENEDEP president from a solidarity mission to the West Bank, where he carried the message from the workers of Piraeus and the trade unions of Greece to the Palestinian people, who suffer under occupation, famine, hunger, and the expansion of settlements. It is a direct attack on the right of workers to struggle and to express their internationalist solidarity against the genocide committed by the murderous state of Israel.

The New Democracy government, a partner and accomplice of the murderous state in the slaughter of the Palestinian people, supports in every possible way the barbarity of Israel. It does not even dare to utter the word genocide, while it fully supports the imperialist plans of the USA, NATO, and the EU in the region by providing military bases, participating in military exercises, and signing cooperation agreements.

If the Greek government and its so-called “justice” are so eager to drag people into court, they should start with their friend Netanyahu, who is internationally wanted for war crimes. They should leave alone the workers and trade unionists who stand by the peoples, on the right side of history, who stop the bullets bound for the murder of children.

The attempt to silence and terrorize the workers will fail!

PAME stands firmly by the side of the ENEDEP Union, the Piraeus Labour Center, and its president, and calls on all trade unions, Federations, and Labour Centers in Greece, as well as unions around the world, to express their solidarity and demand:

·         The immediate termination of all prosecutions against the president of ENEDEP and the Piraeus Labour Center.

·         That the case be dropped unconditionally and permanently.

·         The abolition of the reactionary legal framework that criminalizes trade union action and internationalist solidarity.

Hands off the Unions and the Workers!

Freedom for Palestine!

No participation, no involvement of Greece in imperialist wars!