EUROF, the European Regional Office of the WFTU, strongly condemns the attempt to dismiss the Vice-President of the Swedish Dockers’ Union (Hamnarbetarforbundet), Erik Helgesson, for promoting a strike to block the transport of military equipment to and from Israel, in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Since the beginning of the genocidal operations of the State of Israel in the Palestinian territories, dockers all over the world, and especially in Europe, have carried out actions to block the transport of weapons, supported by the WFTU and the European Regional Office EUROF.
The decision of the Swedish trade union, taken in a referendum and with the approval of 68% of the trade union members, is a courageous and just decision that breaks the complicit silence of the European governments on the ongoing genocide and also responds to the recent decision of Sweden to join NATO.
EUROF – WFTU European Bureau expresses its full solidarity with the Swedish leader and the dockers and calls upon all WFTU member unions in Europe to express their full solidarity and to intensify their actions of struggle and blockade in support of the Palestinian people.
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