Hands off the president of the ENEDEP Dockworkers Union!

Seko Tunnelbanan, Klubb 111 the union for the workers in Stockholm´s metro (underground in Sweden condemns the 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 one year ago. Those bullets were bound for Israel for the massacre of children and civilians in Gaza and the West Bank..

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.

On behalf of our union, our comrades in Stockholm´s metro and the workers in Sweden we stand firmly by the side of the ENEDEP Union, the Piraeus Labour Center, and its president Markos Bekris, and express our solidarity and demand:

– That the Greek government and police cease all prosecutions of trade unionists and their aggressive practices against our comrades in the Enedep Union and the Piraeus Labour Center.

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

One for all and all for one!

For the union of workers in Stockholm’s metro

Giannis Konstantis, Chairman

Louise Strömbäck, Secretary

Mojaffar Ekbal, Vice Chairman