{"id":40753,"date":"2026-10-30T21:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T20:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=40753"},"modified":"2026-10-30T21:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T20:30:51","slug":"with-largest-coordinated-port-action-ever-dockworkers-in-22-countries-strike-against-gaza-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=40753","title":{"rendered":"With \u2018Largest Coordinated Port Action Ever,\u2019 Dockworkers in 22 Countries Strike Against Gaza Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"
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. HUMAN RIGHTS . .<\/p>\n

An article by Jake Johnson in Common Dreams<\/a> (reprinted according to <\/p>\n

Dockworkers in more than 20 countries\u2014from France to India to Greece\u2014are withholding their labor on Friday to demand an end to Israel\u2019s genocidal assault on Gaza and highlight the role that commercial ports play in fueling deadly militarism worldwide.<\/p>\n

Organizers said the work stoppages, led by dockworkers\u2019 unions at 113 ports across 22 countries<\/a>, would be the \u201clargest coordinated port action ever,\u201d easily surpassing the international day of action held in February. No Harbour for Genocide, a collective of trade unions and others supporting the day of action, said $2.8 billion worth of cargo will be halted at Mediterranean ports, where workers are planning to strike for 24 hours.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Seafarers and dockworkers chant slogans as they take part in a march from the port of Piraeus, near Athens, towards Greece\u2019s Ministry of Maritime Affairs on October 30, 2026. (Photo by Aris Messinis\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/center><\/p>\n

\u201cA cargo refused in one port sails on to the next,\u201d said No Harbour for Genocide. \u201cRefused in every port, it stops, and the workers have enforced the embargo that governments announced and did not.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a joint statement <\/a> last month announcing the day of action, dockworkers\u2019 unions from T\u00fcrkiye, Morocco, Italy, France, Greece, Italy, and Basque Country laid out their demands:<\/p>\n

1. An immediate end to the genocide of the Palestinian people and the opening of safe corridor for humanitarian aid.. An end of colonization, occupation and apartheid imposed to Palestinian People and the recognition of an independent Palestinian state recognized by the international community on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.<\/p>\n

2. An end to the war in the Middle East. No support, no facilitation, no participation in the US-Israeli war against Iran, Lebanon or any other imperialist intervention. Military fleets and bases out of the region. We express our full solidarity to the people of Cuba and Venezuela and Sudan menaced by US imperialism and we call for defend people\u2019s sovereignty, resources, territorial integrity, peace with justice, and the right for resistance for self-determination.<\/p>\n

3. Ports must not be used for the transport of weapons, ammunition, military equipment and troops. We call on unions to strengthen vigilance, to inform workers, to expose the cargoes of war, and to organize mass collective resistance with all our rightful available means and our struggle.<\/p>\n

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\n How can we best express solidarity with the people of Gaza?<\/a> <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

What is the contribution of trade unions to the culture of peace?<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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4. An end to the militarization of ports and critical infrastructure. Ports belong to the peoples and the workers. They are not bases for NATO, the USA or the EU, nor tools of shipowners and monopoly groups.<\/p>\n

5. No to the war economy and armaments. The money must go to wages, collective agreements, health, education, social needs, and the protection of life and safety at work.<\/p>\n

6. Health and safety measures in the workplaces. Not one worker dead for profits. An end to intensification, subcontracting, dangerous conditions, and employer arbitrariness.<\/p>\n

7. Collective agreements with real wage increases, stable jobs with rights, a retirement policy with better pensions, and a reduction of working time. Technological developments, mechanization, automation, the use of AI and the development of ports must serve the needs of workers, and not lead to the intensification of work or the disappearance of their jobs<\/p>\n

\u201cOur strength lies in organization. It lies in our unions, in general assemblies, in collective decisions, in solidarity among workers from different countries,\u201d the unions said. \u201cWe, the workers in the ports, know very well that without us nothing moves. Without our hands, containers remain still, ships are not loaded, the war machines are blocked.\u201d<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera noted <\/a> that of the ports participating in Friday\u2019s actions, \u201cGenoa, Livorno, and Gioia Tauro in Italy, Marseille in France, Piraeus in Greece, and Tangier in Morocco all have proven links to weapons shipments to Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

The strikes come as Israel\u2019s genocide in Gaza continues despite a ceasefire agreement that putatively took effect last October. A United Nations report published earlier this week noted that \u201cIsraeli authorities and forces continue to commit genocidal acts\u201d in Gaza \u201ceven after the so-called ceasefire agreement, with the intent to destroy the Palestinian people, in whole or in part.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report found that Israel\u2014which is armed and supported diplomatically by Western governments, principally the United States\u2014has \u201ccommitted war crimes and the crimes against humanity of extermination, persecution, torture, rape, and other forms of sexual violence\u201d in the illegally occupied Palestinian territories.<\/p>\n

Port Workers and Communities for Palestine said in a statement Friday that will be demonstrating at the Port of Elizabeth in New Jersey. The coalition said the New Jersey port is the only port on the East Coast of the US where a protest is expected. Demonstrations are also expected <\/a>in Oakland and San Francisco, California.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that, regardless of what union leadership may decide, workers everywhere stand in solidarity with Palestine,\u201d said Port Workers and Communities for Palestine. \u201cWe will be out there on Friday to show them that they are part of this movement too. Workers have the power to stop the war machine.\u201d<\/p>\n

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