Victory: Oakland ILWU dockers block unloading of Israeli cargo ship for 24 hours
BLOCKADE!
Three weeks after the massacre on the Freedom Flotilla, ILWU
dockworkers in the San Francisco Bay area delayed an Israeli Zim
Lines ship for 24 hours, the Swedish Dockworkers Union began
a week-long blockade of Israeli ships and containers, dockers
in the Port of Cochin, India, refused to handle Israeli cargo,
and the Turkish dockworkers union Liman-Is announced their members would refuse
to service any Israeli shipping. In South Africa, Durban dockers had
already boycotted a Zim Lines ship in response to the invasion
of Gaza last year. On the 5th Anniversary of the United
Palestinian Call for Boycott Divestment and Sanctions, Israel faces the
prospect of targetted industrial action to implement boycotts. How
did it happen, what does it mean, and how can the solidarity movement
respond to the new opening?
Oakland
At 5am on Sunday 20th June, 800 trade unionists and Palestine
solidarity activists from the San Francisco Bay Area marched to the SSA
(Stevedoring Services of America) terminal at Berths 57-58
in the Port of Oakland, where the "Zim Shenzhen" was due. Zim Lines
is the main Israeli shipping company, with services connecting Israel
to the world. The ship sailed from Haifa, calling at Piraeus,
Livorno, Genoa, Tarragona, Halifax, New York, Savannah, Kingston, Panama Canal,
Los Angeles before reaching Oakland.
When longshore workers turned up for the day shift a mass demo was
in place at four gates chanting "Free, Free Palestine, Don’t You
Cross Our Picket Line".. ."An Injury to One is An Injury
to All, Bring Down the Apartheid Wall".. ."Open the Siege, Close the Gate,
Israel is a Terrorist State"...As union members spoke
to drivers, pickets sat down in front of cars. The San Francisco
Labor Council and the Alameda County Labor Council had passed their own
resolutions and mobilized hundreds of trade unionists to back the
demo called by the Labor Community Committee in Solidarity with the
Palestinian People. It was an unprecedented show of strength
from the local and regional AFL-CIO, affiliated unions and their members side
by side with Palestinian and Arab-American activists.
The Gaza ships were originally organised by Paul Larudee from San
Francisco, and Bay Area residents had sailed with him. Now everyone came
together for a united action organised in just two weeks. Local
10 and Local 34 (clerical) are militant sections of the
International Longshore Workers Union. The ILWU organizes longshore (dockers)
and many other industrial sectors on the US West Coast and Hawaii.
With a history stretching back to 1934, the ILWU has faced the
employers in countless disputes on the docks, carried out industrial
solidarity action with other workers, fought against racism, adopted
resolutions which characterize the Israeli oppression of Palestinians
as "state-sponsored terrorism", and on May 1st 2008 shut down every
port on the US West Coast against the war in Iraq.
Labor laws in the U. S. like the Taft-Hartley Act make
it illegal for unions to organize solidarity actions. The Oakland
longshore workers arrived for the day shift and refused to cross the
picket line on grounds of "health and safety". The Pacific Maritime
Association, on behalf of the employer SSA, immediately called
in the Arbitrator (a joint union-management procedure for first-line
response to disputes on the docks) hoping he would order
everyone to work. The Arbitrator considered the PMA demand that the police
use force to open access through the picket line, to make
it "safe" for workers to enter the terminal. The union argued that
the Oakland police are a threat to the security of workers and
demonstrators.
In 2003, as the U. S. attacked Iraq, Oakland police fired
so-called "non lethal" weapons at longshore workers and anti-war
demonstrators alike, injuring scores and sending many to hospital.
In 2010 the Arbitrator agreed with the union. As per their contract,
the dockers were sent home with pay for standing by, however the employers
have refused to abide by the Arbitrator’s decision and have paid out
nothing, leaving the issue in dispute.
The "Zim Shenzen" had left Los Angeles around 2:30 pm Saturday, and could
have could have arrived at the San Francisco pilot station
in as little as 18 hours, plus 2 hours to the
dock. The ship’s tracking system was removed from the nautical GPS system,
leaving the demo guessing when it would arrive. But with several hundred
marching at 5:30 am swelling to 800 as the morning
progressed, the company decided to hold up the docking until
6 pm. By then, SSA Terminal realized that the mass picket line would
return for the evening shift and the Arbitrator would make the same decision,
so they gave up and prudently chose not to call longshoremen
to report for work. The ship sat at the quay, untouched. Establishing
the mass picket line early and preventing longshoremen and clerks from working
the terminal was critical in this victory.
This was the first ever boycott of an Israeli ship by workers
in the US, where Zionism has counted on influencing the
traditional stance of the mainstream labor movement, as well
as elected politicians. "An Injury to One is An Injury
to All" is the slogan of the ILWU. It is also
an emblem for South African workers. The "Zim" action was recognized
as a direct echo of Local 10’s fight against apartheid
in 1984, when members refused to work South African steel and coal
for 11 days until the employer obtained a Federal injunction
to break the boycott. Interviewed on video during the "Zim" picket,
Local 10 Executive Board member Clarence Thomas stated "This
is a historic occasion. Everyone remembers the action taken
by the community and labor in 1984 at Pier 80 in San
Francisco, where the "Nedlloyd Kimberley" was picketed."
Retired Local 10 longshore worker Howard Keylor, a co-organizer
of that action, recalled: "This was the result of over a decade
of education within the Local on the horrors of the South
African apartheid regime. South Africa arrested the entire leadership
of the black miners union (the National Union of Mineworkers) and
charged them with t reason, and was threatening to execute them.
I made the motion in Local 10, which passed unanimously, not
to work the cargo in the next ship that came in. It was the
longshore courage in deliberately violating the Taft-Hartley law and the
union contract that made that successful."
Clarence Thomas set out the current strategy: "People are lacking food, people
cannot rebuild in Gaza, construction supplies are not allowed. They
haven’t even been allowing chewing gum! The thing that is going
to make Israel and the United States both understand that this cannot
continue, is the whole question of commerce and trade. Israel
is very vulnerable on that question. This was critical
in building the mobilization in 1984 against apartheid, with three
prongs: Boycotts, Sanctions, and Divestment."
Jack Heyman, also from the Local 10 Executive Board: "If longshoremen
decide they’re not going to cross the picket line, then the Zim ship
that’s coming in is not going to be worked, and that’s
going to be repeated around the world, in Norway, Sweden, South
Africa. I think people are beginning to understand that the Israeli
government is going to have to be sent a message loud
and clear, that their policies towards the Palestinian people are unjust and
they’re going to suffer the consequences. It’s not business as usual
when they commit acts of murder like this."
Monadel Herzallah, of the Arab American Union Members Council summed
up the impact on the labor movement: "It’s indeed a significant
turning point in the work with labor, and it’s significant because ILWU
has honored our picket line, it is something that we cherish,
that we think will make an impact not only in the United States
of America but also worldwide. The Labor Councils in Alameda and
in San Francisco, responded to the call by encouraging labor
unions, members, activists, to support this, with dozens of other
community organisations who have worked to make this picket successful.
People have wanted to tell this government and the government
of Israel that they cannot be above the law, they have
to be held accountable for what they did against these unarmed
civilians on the flotilla ship in the Mediterranean."
Palestinian unions appeal
On June 7, the Palestinian trade union movement had produced
a united appeal to dockworkers unions worldwide. It was signed
by the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU), the
General Union of Palestinian Workers (GUPW), the Federation
of Independent Trade Unions (IFU), and 11 other Palestinian union and
labor movement organizations. It concluded "Gaza today has become the test
of our universal morality and our common humanity. During the South
African anti-apartheid struggle, the world was inspired by the brave and
principled actions of dockworkers unions who refused to handle South
African cargo, contributing significantly to the ultimate fall
of apartheid. Today, we call on you, dockworkers unions
of the world, to do the same against Israel’s occupation and
apartheid. This is the most effective form of solidarity to end
injustice and uphold universal human rights."
This appeal was doubly significant. It gave the basis for dockers
to respond, knowing that the call came from fellow workers. And,
it showed exceptional unity on the Palestinian side, a big step
in its own right. The joint union appeal developed the call from the
Palestinian Boycott National Committee (BNC) issued on 1 June, which
included: We call specifically on transport and dock workers and
unions around the globe to: Refuse to load/off-load Israeli ships and
airplanes, following the historic example set by the South African
Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) in Durban in February
2009 and endorsed by the Maritime Union of Australia (Western
Australia).
The ILWU Local 10 Executive Board met on 8 June, and heard from
members of the San Francisco Labor Council, a Palestinian speaker and
solidarity activists. The Board unanimously adopted an Executive motion
citing the Palestinian union appeal which they had received, and noting that
the flotilla massacre had been condemned by the International Dockworkers
Council (IDC), the International Transportworkers Federation (ITF), the
International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), the Confederation of South
African Trade Unions (COSATU) and British union UNITE. The Executive motion
joined in condemning the massacre and concluded with a "call for
unions to protest by any action they choose to take". The ILWU
also noted that Swedish Dockworkers were planning an action, scheduled
to begin on 15 June.
Sweden
Even before the Palestinian unions issued their appeal, the Swedish
Dockworkers Union had announced plans for a week-long blockade of all
trade with Israel. The union is a key member of the
International Dockworkers Council formed during the Liverpool dockers battle
from 1995 — 1998 to regain their jobs after being sacked for refusing
to cross a picket line. Former Liverpool dockers and Swedish dockers
discussed the possibilities for action and alerted the IDC and its affiliated
unions when the Palestinian BNC made contact through BDS organizers
in both countries on 31 May. The Swedish Dockworkers Union set
out the aims of the blockade and discussed strategy in detailed
briefings to the membership and press articles.
Their blockade was designed to last one week, a temporary measure
to be evaluated with the possibility of further action.
It aimed to influence the Israeli government to: "1. Lift the
illegal and inhuman blockade of Gaza, which has been going on for
over three years. "2. Allow an independent, international inquiry into
Israel’s boarding of the Freedom Flotilla (of which the Swedish Ship
to Gaza was a member) in international waters, when nine people
were killed and at least 48 people were injured. The requirements are
clearly defined and conform fully with the demands that the UN and
the EU have made to Israel."
After the initial announcement, the employers’ association "Ports
of Sweden" threatened to sue individual union members, deduct from
their wages, and demand compensation for participation in the blockade.
The dockworkers postponed their action for a week, to dovetail with
plans by the Norwegian Transportworkers Union. The Palestinian unions
issued their appeal and Sweden would now be acting in response.
In the event, the Norwegian blockade did not take place — yet —
but Sweden went ahead. "From the 23rd of June we will no longer
handle containers with Israeli wines, vegetables or fruits branded Jaffa,
Carmel or Top, vegetarian pre-fabricated foods from Tivall or the
carbonation-machine Soda Stream. Neither will we contribute to the
Swedish export of Volvo buses, which were used by Israel
to transport hundreds of human right activists from the Freedom
Flotilla to Israeli prisons."
The union was directly involved in the original plans for the Swedish Ship
to Gaza, which the dockworkers intended to load for free. When the
"Sofia" was eventually purchased jointly with a Greek solidarity
organization, the Swedish Dockworkers were in touch with the Greek Port
Workers Union who loaded "Sofia" with electric wheelchairs and cement
at the port of Pireus, free of charge. The Swedish also
approached the IDC to ask affiliates to protect and handle
voluntarily all ships carrying supplies to Gaza.
Björn Borg, Chairperson of the Swedish Dockworkers Union, and Erik
Helgeson, Ombudsman, local 4 Gothenburg, stressed the significance
of the Flotilla. "We could see how the eyes of the world were
finally turned towards the isolated population of Gaza. Even the night
before the Israeli military violently stormed the Freedom Flotilla, this
international initiative had done more to bring attention to the
catastrophic situation of the people of Gaza, than all the diplomatic
moves, declarations and resolutions put forward in recent years. That also
inspires us and our colleagues in ports around the world to take
action."
When the blockade began, the dockers identified and isolated 10 containers
full of goods to or from Israel. Erik Helgeson commented:
"We thought the flow of goods would be much lower considering
the blockade had been announced for twenty days. Our ambition
is of course that our action can be one of many grassroots
initiatives that will keep the eyes of the world focused on the
800,000 children living isolated in Gaza. The Palestinian civilian
population must be allowed to rebuild their economy, their
infrastructure and freely integrate with the rest of the world. The war
on Gaza and Israel’s brutal blockade have made all this impossible for
over three years."
Turkey
As the Swedish began their blockade, news emerged that the dockworkers
union Liman-Is intended to join the fast growing movement for boycott
sweeping through all levels of society after the murder of Turkish
aid volunteers aboard the "Mavi Marmara". Alongside the Physicians’ Association
of Turkey and the Chamber of Agricultural Engineers, the Liman-Is
Central Committee stated:
"...The attack that was protested throughout the world and condemned harshly
by the UN also brought people out to the streets in Turkey.
The government’s announcements indicate that further sanctions against Israel
are to be expected.
"However, Israel needs to be answered not only through the channels
of government, but through all institutions and social organizations, most
of all, through NGO’s and unions. "Our union Liman-Is, has decided
to boycott the ships from Israel, which has become a machine
of death and torture. In the framework, no member of our
union will give service to Israel in any docks where we are
organized.
"Liman-Is union invites all unions and NGO’s organized in our country and
throughout the world to join this boycott and protest campaign."
Turning this declaration into an actual boycott will require the active
involvement of other unions in Turkish ports.
India
A few days before the Oakland action, unions in the Port
of Cochin, in the state of Kerala, India, had agreed
to boycott Israeli ships and cargo. The boycott began on June
17 on receipt of information that cargo unloaded at Colombo Port
from Israeli ship m/v Zim Livorno was bound to arrive at Cochin Port
in a feeder vessel. Similar consignments unloaded at Colombo
from Israeli ships were set to arrive in feeder vessels.
On June 23, trade unions held a joint protest rally
in Cochin Port near the office of Zim Integrated Shipping Services
(India) Pvt Ltd — the Israeli shipping line. Addressing the rally
B Hamza, general secretary of Cochin Port Labor Union (CITU)
condemned the flotilla massacre and expressed the Port workers’ solidarity with
Palestine. Leaders of at least five port unions and the Water
Transport Workers Federation of India expressed the unity of Cochin
Port workers with the growing world-wide boycott.
South Africa
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) had already
responded straight after the attack on Gaza in Dec 2008 — Jan
2009. In three weeks, Israeli forces killed 1400 Palestinians including
over 300 children. In the midst of the carnage, the
International Committee of the Red Cross had to wait 4 days
before the Israeli military allowed ambulances to reach children huddled
next to their dead mothers in a house shelled by Israeli
forces. A UN compound was attacked with white phosphorus munitions.
Schools, hospitals, ambulances, sewage treatment plants, all came under
fire.
Long before the UN launched their own investigation of possible war
crimes (the "Goldstone Report"), South African workers knew enough to act.
Members of the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union SATAWU,
affiliated to COSATU, refused to work the Zim Lines "Johanna
Russ" — which sailed from Haifa at the height of the
invasion — when it arrived in Durban in early February
2009.
On the eve of that action, COSATU wrote: "SATAWU’s action
on Sunday will be part of a proud history of worker
resistance against apartheid. In 1963, just four years after the
Anti-Apartheid Movement was formed, Danish dock workers refused to offload
a ship with South African goods. When the ship docked in Sweden,
Swedish workers followed suit. Dock workers in the San Francisco Bay Area
and, later, in Liverpool also refused to off-load South African
goods. South Africans, and the South African working class in particular,
will remain forever grateful to those workers who determinedly opposed
apartheid and decided that they would support the anti-apartheid struggle with
their actions.
"Last week, Western Australian members of the Maritime Union
of Australia resolved to support the campaign for boycotts,
divestment and sanctions against Israel, and have called for a boycott
of all Israeli vessels and all vessels bearing goods arriving from
or going to Israel.
"This is the legacy and the tradition that South African dock workers have
inherited, and it is a legacy they are determined to honor,
by ensuring that South African ports of entry will not be used
as transit points for goods bound for or emanating from certain
dictatorial and oppressive states such as Zimbabwe, Swaziland and
Israel."
Five COSATU officers were amongst the 1400 internationals who converged
on Cairo last December, hoping to enter Gaza for the Gaza Freedom
March. Zico Tamela, the International Secretary of SATAWU, was on the
delegation. Interviewed outside the UN buildings by the Nile,
he called on transportworkers throughout the
world.
"...to assist in the struggle for the liberation of our brothers
and sisters in Palestine. We must support and actively participate
in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign. This means the total
isolation of Israel in terms of arms embargo, economically,
culturally, socially, and otherwise. Just like you fellow workers did with
apartheid South Africa. This also means that the Israeli labor movement, which
is Zionist to the core, must be kicked out of the
progressive international trade union movement. It’s not a question
of fighting Jewish workers, no, no, it’s a question of isolating
Zionism within the labor movement. Just like it was not a question
of fighting white workers, but of fighting racism and isolating
it within the international progressive trade union movement.
"The action we South Africans took in relation
to an Israeli ship and a Chinese ship that docked
in Durban, when we refused to offload the consignments those
ships carried, the Israeli ship carried civilian goods, the Chinese ship
carried arms for Zimbabwe, we didn’t offload those goods.
As transport workers throughout the world, we need
to be at the forefront of the struggle to implement
Boycott Divestment and Sanctions campaign, because we are the ones who
transport goods to and from Israel throughout the world."
Israeli Consulate rebuffed by ILWU Local 10
Executive
Deputy Israeli Consul for the Pacific Northwest Gideon Lustig (left) and Dr.
Roberta Seid (3rd from left) Univ. of California Irvine,
on a delegation 6 July seeking to persuade the ILWU
Local 10 Executive Board to change course after the historic boycott
of an Israeli Zim Lines ship 20 June. The Executive Board denied
entry to the San Francisco Israeli Consulate delegation. Dr Seid was
allowed to speak, and the Executive Board reaffirmed the union’s position
opposing the Israeli blockade of Gaza, the apartheid wall in the West
Bank, the continuing bloody Zionist oppression of Palestinians and the
murderous Israeli attack on the aid flotilla — which Zionist
professor Seid had defended... to general amazement.
Oakland dockers stand firm as Israeli Consul seeks
an audience.
Israel is taking this seriously. Their San Francisco based Consul for the
Pacific Northwest Akiva Tor sought to meet with the ILWU Local 10
Executive Board on 6 July, hoping to persuade the union
to change course. When the PGFTU found out, they wrote to the
Executive Board on 2 July, saluting the union’s boycott, their
history of international solidarity, and the risks taken
by African-Americans in the civil rights movement.
They appealed to the union to stand firm
"...Although we do not live in the United States,
we find it highly unusual and somewhat uncustomary that a paid
foreign representative of a racist and apartheid regime can demand
and get a meeting with the executive board of a local union
no less than the ILWU...Our civil society has risen and said that justice
is universal. We supported the struggle to end apartheid
in South Africa, the struggle for civil rights in the United States,
and the struggle for international solidarity. We remember that May 1st
commemorates a labor struggle that took place in Chicago, IL,
in the US and on May Day 2008, your union the ILWU, shut down
all west coast ports to oppose the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq,
setting a precedent in the U. S. Labor movement.
We humbly ask of you to hold steadfast in the face
of backlash and revenge against your union. The call for a meeting
with your union by a foreign paid emissary is intervening
in the domestic affairs of local community grassroots action
in the United States. Israel, an apartheid state, maintaining
an illegal war against our people, should not be given the platform
at your union house. That platform should be reserved for heroes who
champion justice and equality for all."
The Consul may have scented danger, and 6 July his Deputy Gideon Lustig
turned up to head the delegation. Lustig spent 10 years
in the Israeli Defence Force and attained the rank of Major before
turning to a diplomatic career. The Consular delegation was joined
by Dr Roberta Seid, an academic at University
of California Irvine who believes the IDF was not responsible for the
death of ISM volunteer Rachel Corrie, run over by an IDF
Caterpillar bulldozer in Gaza on 16 March 2003 while trying
to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian doctor’s house. Why?
Because an official Israeli investigation concluded her death was
an accident. In a major diplomatic rebuff for Consular staff,
the Executive Board refused to allow the delegation to enter the
meeting, in line with the appeal from the PGFTU.
Dr Seid was given permission to speak. To general amazement, she
defended the murderous attack on the Freedom Flotilla. Perhaps she
anticipates the official Israeli investigation will clear the Navy
of responsibility. What differences would the Israeli government have with
her presentation, she was asked. None, apparently. Had not the journal "Foreign
Affairs" recently exposed Israel’s offer to supply South Africa with
nuclear weapons during the apartheid era? Seid admitted they had, but claimed
the story was untrue. A former ILWU official recalled his own experience
of visiting Palestine in 1989 and described the expansionist aims
of the Israeli state in detail. When it was over, the Executive
reaffirmed the union’s position opposing the Israeli blockade of Gaza, the
apartheid wall in the West Bank, the continuing bloody Zionist oppression
of Palestinians and the murderous Israeli attack on the aid
flotilla.
What does it mean?
In the past, with a few very important exceptions, unions have
focused on adopting national policies in solidarity with Palestine,
donated funds, sent delegations to the West Bank and occasionally
to Gaza, invited their Palestinian counterparts to address
conferences, but without engaging in any dispute with their own employers
over this issue. Although unions have adopted policies in support
of BDS, and even overcome strong internal opposition before doing so,
these policies have mainly remained paper committments. These small steps are
essential preparation. As Howard Keylor remarked, it took years
of education within Local 10 before the boycott of the "Nedlloyd
Kimberley" became possible.
The first sign of another strategy came in 2006, during the Israeli
invasion of Lebanon and the largely secret war in Gaza that same
year. Tram drivers in Dublin were instructed to train their Israeli
counterparts on how to operate the planned Light Rail system
connecting Jerusalem to the illegal Settlements. In line with the
policies of their union SIPTU and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions,
they refused, risking their jobs.
At the same time, an appeal from sacked Liverpool dockers entitled
"Sanctions on Israel: If not now, when?" concluded "If you can,
intervene directly to stop trade with Israel while the carnage
in Lebanon and Gaza continues".
Possible action against Zim Lines was discussed in San Francisco
a few months later. During the bombardment and invasion of Gaza from
Dec 2008 — Jan 2009, Greek dockers threatened to boycott
a shipment of US arms to Israel, which was then re-routed,
eventually reaching Ashdod in March.
Now, for the first time, Israel faces the prospect that their trade links are
no longer secure as unions across the world are willing
to go into dispute to implement the boycott. This is not
a dockers issue, it is an issue for any union which wants
to make BDS a reality. And the dockers are only able to act
because they know there is a strong basis of support in the
wider labor movement. This is exactly what happened to South Africa
from about 1978 onwards. Workers at the computer manufacturing firm
ICL (now Fujitsu) in Manchester refused to dispatch the machine they
had built for administration of the hated Pass Laws.
Air France pilots were poised to refuse to fly uranium illegally
mined by Rio Tinto Zinc in South African-occupied Namibia. The trade
was suddenly switched to sea. But a decade later Liverpool dockers
blockaded containers to interrupt the export of processed South
African and Namibian uranium, touching off an outcry in Japan where
electricity contracts with RTZ were cancelled. Dublin shopworkers refused
to sell Outspan oranges, and were sacked.
Oakland dockers refused to offload South African steel and coal, and
survived. It all coincided with the emergence inside South Africa
of militant independent trade unions ready to strike against the
employer and the apartheid system, eventually forming the Congress
of South African Trade Unions in 1985. That was the moment when the
South African ruling class knew it would have to find a way out
of apartheid. Even so, it took another 9 years.
These were not the only factors which brought down the apartheid regime.
No one should imagine that a week of blockades spells the end
of Israeli apartheid, or even the end of the siege of Gaza.
But the dockers have broken through the consensus that trade union solidarity
begins and ends with resolutions at trade union congresses, education,
fundraising and delegation work, important as these are in laying the
basis for action.
The blockades connect Palestine to the class struggle which workers live
through every day of their lives. In Oakland, Sweden, Turkey, India,
and South Africa, a new generation of dockers has joined a fight
with echoes of the 1980s. Clarence Thomas: "Today what you witnessed was
the current young membership of ILWU Local 10 answering the call
of the brothers and sisters who came before them. We understand what
international solidarity means. It is not an empty slogan. You
have to give something up. Our members were willing to give
up a day’s pay today. That’s what solidarity means. This
is indeed a people’s victory, and remember, just because it’s not
on the front page of the New York Times, just because it’s not
on CNN, we have to get the word out. We claim no easy
victories and tell no lies. Solidarity to the Palestinians.
Solidarity to the working class around the world."
Whatever the immediate consequences, Israel’s murderous attack on the
flotilla has landed the Zionist regime in very dangerous waters.
By Greg Dropkin
Greg Dropkin is based in Liverpool and is active in the
labournet.net group, on whose site this report
appears.
Source: mycatbirdseat.com
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