The dockworkers' struggle against war and the arms trade will resume: at least 21 Mediterranean ports will participate in the international strike scheduled for February 6

 Italian USBs prepares for the international strike for February 6
The Italian Dockworkers union USB held a meeting  on Friday the 23rd of this month in Genoa, at the Port Authority Club (CAP) located at Via Albertazzi No. 3. entitled ""Dockworkers don't work for wars" to announce a general strike in many Italian and Mediterranean ports ( at least 21 Mediterranean ports )  on February 6 meanwhile the dockworkers called for a struggle against war and rearmament, leading up to the international dockworkers

Meeting participants and attendees

The meeting attended by representatives of several trade union delegations representing dockworkers who called for the February 6 meeting, as well as representatives of the dockworkers' union in Greece, the Basque Country, Morocco, and Turkey. as well as Amazon union representative Chris Small from the US. Also confirmed as contributors are economist Emiliano Brancaccio, historian Angelo D'Orsi, and historian and economics scholar Alessandro Volpi.

Open to contributions from all those forces and movements

It will be a moment of debate and dialogue: open to contributions not only from all those forces and movements with whom we built the great days of general strike on September 22, October 3 and November 28, but also from all those who see in this event the possibility of launching the path of national and international solidarity against wars, genocide, neo-imperialism, labor exploitation and the fight against migrants

The dockworkers are demanding action. We refuse to cooperate with rearmament policies; we refuse to privatize our ports and turn them into tools of the military. We refuse to work for war.

The statement stated

Its statement stated At a time when imperialism is waging a deadly assault on the peoples of the earth, burying international law once and for all, encouraging the plundering of natural resources on a global scale, putting armies at the service of the interests of large multinational corporations, and supporting a massive rearmament campaign, workers can disrupt this machine and stop the killing machine.

February another step in an increasingly widespread

February 6th will not be the end, but another step in an increasingly widespread and interconnected struggle among workers around the world to stop wars and give us all a better future. the statement confirmed 

Protests are planned in Genoa, Trieste, Livorno, Ancona, Civitavecchia, Ravenna, Salerno, Bari, Crotone, Palermo, as well as other ports around the Mediterranean ( Piraeus, Bilbao, Tangier and Antalya, ) on this day; with other ports expected to join later.”

Not an end point

The USB union described this date as "not an end point, but the beginning of a new era of struggle against war, rearmament, and imperialism," following the anti-arms trade movements and demands to end the genocide in Palestine this fall

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