PAME salutes USB and the big strike of the workers in Italy, who for the second time in ten days, with their unwavering struggle, show the way, raising a wall of solidarity against the genocide in Gaza and the imperialist plans that plunge peoples into poverty and misery for their wars. Their message echoes today across Europe and reaches the ports of the Mediterranean.
Alongside them, dockworkers in Greece, France, Turkey, and other European ports are on strike. The common denominator is the confrontation with the war economy, which crushes wages and rights, dismantles working time, and feeds billions into the war machines of NATO and the EU.
The ports will not become launching pads for war! From Piraeus to Genoa, Livorno, and Marseille, dockworkers unite their voices and condemn the criminal assault of the murderous state of Israel against the Global Sumud Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza. They denounce the dirty machinations of the imperialists for the uprooting of the Palestinian people from their land, aiming to turn Gaza into an American protectorate, undermining every possibility of an independent and viable Palestinian state.
In particular, the strike at the COSCO docks in Piraeus continues the message of the general strike of October 1st: the workers will not accept 13-hour workdays and “flexibility.”
A 13-hour workday means more exploitation, so that money is spared for arms, wars, and deals with the murderous state of Israel. Governments, capitalist parties, and the EU, who deprive us of wages and rights, are the same ones who cover up the genocide and massacre of the Palestinian people.
We take the baton from the strike of October 1st and escalate our struggle with a new strike against the monstrous 13-hour workday bill, to stop the genocide and to support the Palestinian people.
The next milestone is the rally on October 10th at the Embassy of Israel.
History has one right side: with Palestine until freedom!
