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!

Palestine Federation of Trade Union PFTU-Palestine- Jericho 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.