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Israel: Support the port workers' strike!
Posted on Monday, October 06 @ 19:04:07 CDT by spno |
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 Israeli port workers are fighting a crucial battle for their jobs, their conditions and the future of the Israeli working class, and have been on a full strike since Tuesday, September 30.
This is against the intention of the arch-Thatcherite finance minister, Bibi Netanyahu, to force through legislation breaking the public Port Authority into three or four independent companies competing with each other - on the road to complete privatisation of the ports. In this way, the finance ministry is unilaterally breaking the agreement which ended the previous port strike of 2000, wherein the government pledged that "structural change" in the ports will only be carried out in consultation with the port unions.
But this is not just another agreement with workers broken by the government - we've seen many of those. The port workers have a longstanding tradition of proud and militant trade unionism that dates back to the British mandate. Today they are one of the last powerful bastions of organised labour in Israel. Breaking the port workers is an essential part of this millionaires' government's war on organised labour, and this aim, for them, justifies any means: using ports in Egypt and Jordan (blocked by the Port-Sa'id and Aqaba port unions), unloading goods in the Israel Shipyards (likely to fail), serving court injunctions to workers and, when all else fails, sending in the Army - this is seriously considered.
In the past, the Israeli port workers did not hesitate to act in solidarity with fellow workers striking in other countries, including the courageous Liverpool dockers. Now they need your support!
Send messages of support by fax - 972-8-8517826 (Ashdod port), mentioning that you got this request from Maavak Sotzialisti, with copies by email to
Comradely Greetings,
Ariel Gottlieb,
Maavak Sotzialisti
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