May Day Message from the General Union of Dock Workers in Iraq to the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in the U.S.
Dear Brothers and Sisters of ILWU in California
The courageous decision you made to carry out a strike on May Day to protest against the war and occupation of Iraq advances our struggle against occupation to bring a better future for us and for the rest of the world as well.
We are certain that a better world will only be created by the workers and what you are doing is an example and proof of what we say. The labor movement is the only element in the society that is able to change the political equations for the benefit of mankind. We in Iraq are looking up to you and support you until the victory over the US administration's barbarism is achieved.
Over the past five years the sectarian gangs who are the product of the occupation, have been trying to transfer their conflicts into our ranks. Targeting workers, including their residential and shopping areas, indiscriminately using all sorts of explosive devices, mortar shells, and random shooting, were part of a bigger scheme that was aiming to tear up the society but they miserably failed to achieve their hellish goal. We are struggling today to defeat both the occupation and sectarian militias' agenda.
The pro-occupation government has been attempting to intervene into the workers affairs by imposing a single government-certified labor union. Furthermore it has been promoting privatization and an oil and gas law to use the occupation against the interests of the workers.
We the port workers view that our interests are inseparable from the interests of workers in Iraq and the world; therefore we are determined to continue our struggle to improve the living conditions of the workers and overpower all plots of the occupation, its economic and political projects.
Let us hold hands for the victory of our struggle.
Long live the port workers in California!
Long live May Day!
Long live International solidarity!
The General Union of Port Workers in Iraq
An Affiliate Union with General Federation of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq (GFWCUI)
28-4-2008
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Labor all around the world,...
...here, Rome, Iraq, and Great Brittan is stepping up. Whoever wrote this article is correct in their statement that: "The labor movement is the only element in the society that is able to change the political equations for the benefit of mankind."
This morning I heard a report on NPR that the Labour Party in Great Brittan is in trouble. Seems like workers there have the same views that I do about being betrayed by those they sent to government to represent them. Sounds like they're "mad as hell", and might not take anymore.
Conservatives there are smirking, thinking they'll get that vote. If it unfolds there like I hope it does here, those Conservatives might be a little premature.
Time for a change. There's got to be another way--a better way. Enough of this same old insane going back and forth between these same old money-serving parties.
So:
Yes, let us hold hands for the victory!
Yes, long live International solidarity!
Yes, long live MayDay!
R Ap