PAME (All Workers Militant Front) denounces the continuing “industry” of trade union prosecutions against workers who are fighting for their rights.

 On Friday, May 29th, in the city of Kavala, goes on trial the appeal of 20 seamen, who were sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment with 3 years suspension, because they “dared” to go on strike. The Trade Union persecution of the specific maritime workers is not an isolated incident, but follows the dozens persecutions of trade unionists, particularly in Ferry line of Kavala, aiming to criminalize any trade union action, the collective struggle, to hit all the trade unions that are fighting against the ship owners, to terrorize workers and “untie” the hands of the ship-owners in exploiting with no limits the workers.

 The government of SYRIZA bears great responsibility, because as government it retains all the anti-labor legal arsenal of the previous governments, while preparing a new attack on labor rights with the new agreement-memorandum. The intensification of the anti-labor attack by Government and Employers will bring a new wave of trade union persecutions, new attack on the right to strike.

 Faced with these developments and in front of the new agreement that is being prepared, workers must respond now with massive class struggle! By escalating the class Solidarity, Organization in the trade unions, collective action against the ship-owners, bankers and governments that serve them. This is the path to break terrorism!

 Trade union rights and the right to Strike are conquests of the labor movement and no court can make them illegal in the minds of workers. Law is the right of the workers!

 We call on trade unions, the popular movement to condemn the industry of trade union persecution. To express massive Solidarity with the persecuted workers.