https://overland.org.au/2026/04/peering-into-the-docks-a-conversation-with-the-wharfies-mural/
#art #dockworkers #illustration #labourmovement #MUA #Murals #samwallman #wharfies
People are deeply curious about the docks. The port is right there, the cranes are giant shapes looming, so often visible, stretches of landscape inviting reflection and curiosity. But the docks are also completely inaccessible. They are non-spaces really, to most people. Exclusion zones.
(Interview) Erik Helgeson, a dockworker in #Gothenburg for the last twenty years, who was fired from his port job in 2025 — for solidarity action, against Israeli shipping.
https://jacobin.com/2026/04/sweden-dockworkers-boycott-russia-israel
#AntiWar #dockworkers #labourmovement #organize #Palestine #solidarity #Ukraine
On this day, 8 March 1922, seamen in Hong Kong and Canton (now Guangzhou) won pay rises of 15-30%, ending their strike which began in January. The British colon
📲 #documentary Resistance 101 - With little hope of the genocide in #gaza subsiding, #dockworkers in major Italian port cities have organized strikes to halt arms shipments to Israel
These actions are a direct response to the refusal of international institutions and governments around the world to confront the carnage. Though the #genocide continues, the dockworkers’ industrial disruption offer us a model of resistance -
Video production: Chris Hedges
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Historic Mediterranean #dockworkers Strike -
More Than 20 Ports Launch Strike Against War, Militarization, and Port Privatization
By Ana Vračar - Health Reporter / PHM Europe
#civilprotection #civilcourage
#ports #mediterranean #armssales
📰 (Publ. FEB-07) on Savage Minds 👇🏽
📢 Hundreds of unionized dock workers gathered on Friday FEB-06 at the port of #Civitavecchia (60 km NW of #rome) to protest increasing militarization of Italy’s strategic #transport infrastructure
#italy #news #protests #gaza #europe
🔹 Demonstration formed part of an international day of strike action called by grassroots #dockworkers unions
🔹 Workers from ports in #greece, the #basque country, #morocco, and #turkiye joined the protest
Al Mayadeen FEB-08
“Historic Mediterranean Dockworkers' Strike
More Than 20 Ports Launch Strike Against War, Militarization, and Port Privatization”
by ANA VRAČAR in Savage Minds on Substack
“Unionists involved in preparing the action described it as the result of a long and complex process, built on dockworkers’ solidarity with Palestine and their struggles for dignified working conditions at home”
https://open.substack.com/pub/savageminds/p/historic-mediterranean-dockworkers
#Press #Mediterranean #DockWorkers #Strike #Palestine #Solidarity
Ports Are Shutting Down for Gaza - And Israel is Panicking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiynISk9Vwo
Dockworkers across more than 20 ports announce coordinated industrial action against Israel , escalating labour resistance over Gaza...
#Organization #AgainstGenocide #Dockworkers #Ports #IsraelCommerce #Unions
#OTD @8 Dec 1962
San Francisco boycott of goods from apartheid South Africa.
Members of the local community set up a picket line at pier 19 when the Raki ship arrived, full of South African products including coffee, hemp and asbestos.
100 workers in Local 10 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) refused to cross picket.
https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/14704/san-francisco-dockers-apartheid-boycott
More:
https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Bay_Area_Longshore_Workers_Fought_Against_Apartheid
#Apartheid #Boycott #DockWorkers #ILWU #LabourMovement #Organize #Solidarity #workingclasshistory
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