We Said “We Will Block Everything” and We Did: Inside Italy’s Strike for Gaza
We Said “We Will Block Everything” and We Did: Inside Italy’s Strike for Gaza
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We Said “We Will Block Everything” and We Did: Inside Italy’s Strike for Gaza
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/6303280
cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/68337
As boats from the Global Sumud Flotilla prepared to set sail toward Gaza from the coasts of Italy, Spain, and Tunisia, a representative of Genoa’s Dockworkers’ Union (CALP), now part of Unione Sindacale di Base, declared that if anything happened to the flotilla, workers would “block everything.” “Our young women and men must come back without a scratch,” the worker said at the port…
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"The growing movement made it clear that within the strike lies the possibility of organizing and building strength to reject genocide and war, and to resist Italian and European policies that push for stricter migration regulations and heavier cuts to welfare. " This is what the important power of the people are, collective, organized under one goal (blockade ports until these conditions are met).
italy's probably the last hope for collectivization to push back and it'll be a dark day if they're silenced through police presence.