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Sacked Liverpool Dockers Call For Sanctions Against Israel

Sacked Liverpool Dockers | 05.08.2006 22:22 | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | Liverpool

On behalf of Merseyside trade unionists the Sacked Liverpool
Dockworkers have been asked to circulate, coordinate and collate all
responses to this message.

We are trade unionists with a record of action within our own
industries and in opposition to racism and war. We watch with horror
and outrage as Israel has bombed Lebanon indisciminately since 12
July with hundreds of civilian casualties, and their army begins a
major ground invasion. Similar atrocities are being committed
against Palestinians by Israeli forces in Gaza.

We know that the Blair government, including even the T&G sponsored
Foreign Secretary, has given Israel a blank cheque to continue this
war while the UN Secretary General calls for an immediate ceasefire
and Israeli bombs kill UN observers at their post in Lebanon.

We also know that our own unions have been very slow to react. It is
two years since the International Court of Justice declared the
apartheid wall which carves up the West Bank to be completely
illegal under the 4th Geneva Convention, along with the Israeli
settlements and the entire occupation itself.

How much longer are we prepared to watch Lebanon and Palestine burn,
before we act?

In the 1930's, trade unionists from Merseyside fought fascism in
Spain.

In 1973, Rolls-Royce engineers in Glasgow refused to ship RB-111 jet
engines to the Chilean junta after Pinochet overthrew the
democratically elected government of Salvador Allende. On
Merseyside, trade unionists and our movement took Chilean refugees
to their heart.

In the 1980's, Liverpool dockers and many other workers around the
world imposed sanctions on South Africa, even while Margaret
Thatcher backed the apartheid regime to the hilt. We agree with
Willie Madisha, President of the Congress of South African Trade
Unions (COSATU), who wrote on 6 June:

Boycotts, disinvestments and sanctions against the apartheid regime
in South Africa hastened our march to democracy. Why should it be
different for Palestinians? In the face of an intransigent,
arrogant, racist and brutal Israeli state, this strategy of
isolation - particularly since the vast majority of Palestinians
support it - should be applied to Israel as well. It is a peaceful
option.

If not now, when?

We call on our brothers and sisters throughout the movement to

1) boycott Israeli consumer goods

2) identify your employer's trade and investment links with Israel,
and raise these as a matter of utmost urgency

3) speak out within your union and demand that your elected
leadership recognise the slaughter in Lebanon and Gaza is a trade
union issue and act accordingly

4) join demonstrations and donate funds in solidarity with
Palestinian and Lebanese victims of the Israeli military aggresion

5) if you can, intervene directly to stop trade with Israel while
the carnage in Lebanon and Gaza continues

contact  dockers@gn.apc.org to sign this statement

Sacked Liverpool Dockers
- e-mail: dockers@gn.apc.org

Comments

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Demo?

05.08.2006 23:14

why not demo about the agression of hizbulla?
why di you and stop the war people ignore
a) 200 rockets landing in Israel
b) 1million dispaced israelis.

if you want peace surtely it helps to condem both sides or do you hate all Israelis? you know somw are muslems and christians as well?

Rebbe


sacked when

06.08.2006 14:14

when were these guys sacked?

asda


They were sacked a long time ago...

06.08.2006 14:45

See  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_Dockers

But many of them are still involved in radical politics, and they set up the Casa pub in Liverpool's Hope Street, where lots of radical meetings and events are held.

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