The Global Port Revolt Against Israel Has BEGUN - And It's SPREADING!

Right, so campaigners have taken the revolt against Israel’s arms supply to the gates of Tilbury docks. They’re asking British port workers to join an international campaign to stop weapons reaching Israel. A solidarity event was also advertised at Liverpool’s Albert Dock. The International Transport Workers’ Federation announced strikes and demonstrations across more than a hundred ports in seventeen countries. The British organisers now have to turn that international appeal into something workers here can act on. And that takes more than just turning up with a banner. A lorry comes through the gate. Someone has to know what it’s carrying. If there’s a military component inside, someone has to establish where it’s going. Then a worker has to decide what they’re prepared to do, with their wages and possibly their job in the balance. Ministers get a rather more comfortable end of this arrangement. Authorise the exports, express some profound concern about Gaza, then leave somebody else to move the goods. Perhaps squeeze in another profound concern before lunch. The campaigners at Tilbury are trying to interrupt that arrangement by winning over the people it depends on. Here’s the appeal being made at the gate. And behind this gathering, there’s a press release as you might imagine there would be.