I messaggi di appoggio internazionali allo sciopero generale ed alla mobilitazione internazionale dei porti del 30 ottobre
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COMUNICADO DE SOLIDARIDAD DE ASC CON USB CON MOTIVO DE LA HUELGA GENERAL EN ITALIA DEL DÍA 30-10-2026 CONTRA EL GOBIERNO DE MELONI.
Estimados camaradas, hemos recibido la información sobre la convocatoria por vuestra parte de una Huelga General para el día 30-10-2026. Nos ha sorprendido gratamente dicha convocatoria porque nos alegra enormemente que un sindicato hermano, afiliado a la FSM como nosotros, tenga la misma afinidad programática y temporal que ASC y tenga y practique la lucha en defensa de los intereses de la clase obrera, de la que somos miembros y a la que representamos.
Creemos que ya conocéis la convocatoria de una Huelga General en España para el día 11-11 de 2026, con iguales o parecidas características y contenidos, por ello la lucha de vuestra convocatoria por la bajada de los precios, contra el rearme, etc, y en nuestro caso contra la especulación de la vivienda unifican las reivindicaciones y las hacen mas completas.
Dado que ambas convocatorias expresan la crisis estructural y final de un capitalismo criminal en los últimos momentos de su existencia como modelo global sería muy importante que tanto vuestras reivindicaciones como las nuestras y las de otros camaradas llevaran la impronta de orientar a la clase trabajadora en lucha hacia la superación del capitalismo y en dirección al socialismo que nuestra FSM tiene como bandera.
La USB como sindicato de clase denuncia que ni la derecha ni la oposición de “centroizquierda” abordan los salarios, las pensiones, la sanidad o la militarización y llama a “bloquear todo para empezar a cambiar las cosas de verdad”. Es una fotografía de nuestra realidad estatal, la misma, con varios agentes socialdemócratas incapaces por ideología y por practica de ser parte de la alternativa emancipadora.
Nos sentimos profundamente solidarios con vosotros, hermanados en la lucha contra el enemigo común, el capitalismo, la Unión Europea, la OTAN y comprendemos perfectamente las causas de vuestra justa y heroica lucha que como nosotros tiene los mismos orígenes y los mismos agentes.
Sabemos que la economía italiana atraviesa tiempos turbulentos como la nuestra. El precio de la gasolina ha subido hasta casi 2,30 euros por litro, a lo que se suma la elevada inflación que en septiembre pasó del 3,3 % al 4,2 %. Una situación similar se vive con los alimentos en el conjunto del país, la frutas frescas, las verduras, la carne, el pescao tienen precios prohibitivos fuera del alcance del salario de los trabajadores y trabajadoras.
Por todo ello reiteramos nuestra solidaridad en vuestra lucha, que es la nuestra y la de la FSM.
¡¡Viva la lucha de la clase obrera!!
¡¡Viva la solidaridad de los y las trabajadores y trabajadoras!!
¡¡ Viva la Huelga General de la USB!!
Estado español,24 de octubre de 2026
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THE UIS OF P&R OF THE WSF IN RESPONSE TO THE USB'S CALL FOR A GENERAL STRIKE FOR OCTOBER 30 IN ITALY.
Dear USB Comrades,
From the International Union of Pensioners' and Retirees' Unions (UIS P&R) of the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), we extend our warmest and most combative greetings of solidarity to all the workers, pensioners and young people who are mobilizing throughout Italy on this day of General Strike.
The struggle that you are waging today against the rising cost of living, suffocating inflation and the uncontrolled increase in energy and fuel rates is the same struggle that runs through Europe and the whole world. The governments of large corporations, such as the government of Giorgia Meloni and, in general, all those of the capitalist world, choose to protect the profits of the oil companies and banks, while condemning millions of families to poverty, cutting the purchasing power of wages and pensions.
As pensioners and retirees, we firmly denounce that inflation in essential foodstuffs and the cost of living are turning the right to a dignified retirement into a chimera. Together with you, we demand the immediate indexation of salaries and pensions to the real cost of living, price controls and the elimination of VAT on basic necessities: food, medicines, electricity and water supplies, etc.
We also proudly salute the historic day of action by dock workers against the arms trade and militarisation. At a time of escalating global war, the unity of the international working class in the face of rearmament policies is more necessary than ever. Public resources must be allocated to social rights, health, education and pensions, not to war.
In the face of the passivity of the unions complicit with the employers, the USB today demonstrates that the only way to defend the dignity of the peoples is the organization of protest and mass mobilization in the streets.
Long live the General Strike on October 30!
Long live the international solidarity of workers and pensioners!
The fight continues!
Internationalist greetings,
On behalf of the leadership of the world's only organization of Pensioners:
Paco Ferrer, Secretary of Training
Quim Boix, Secretary General
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30 OCTOBER - DOCKWORKERS' INTERNATIONAL ACTION DAY
The common struggle of workers is the answer to imperialist war and exploitation
On 30 October, through strikes and mobilisations at more than 100 ports across Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa, dockworkers are strengthening the common struggle of workers against imperialist war and exploitation.
From the ports of the United States to those of India, this international coordination among trade unions represents an important achievement and a call to struggle for the working class in every country.
The significance of this strike reaches far beyond the port gates. It concerns all workers. Workers at key hubs of production and transport are coordinating their action, opposing the transport of military equipment and demanding that their labour serve the needs of the peoples. They bring to the fore the only force that, armed with its organisation, can put obstacles in the way of the imperialists’ war machine, the working class, which holds the production and distribution of wealth in its hands.
Dockworkers are giving their own answer to governments and all imperialist blocks and alliances, to the US, NATO and the EU, which demand that workers fall into line behind war aims serving the profits of capital. Workers in every country have every interest in joining forces and directing their struggle against their exploiters and the warmongering policies of their governments. The joint action of dockworkers in Greece and Turkey, together with their fellow workers in other countries, strikes a blow against nationalism and strengthens class and internationalist solidarity among workers.
Workers do not share the same homeland as their exploiters. On one side stands the homeland of industrialists, bankers and shipowners, who fill their coffers with enormous profits and enjoy the support of their state. On the other stands the homeland of workers, who experience the full brutality of capitalism: poverty, war, unemployment, crimes committed by employers, 13-hour working days and more.
Against the backdrop of the US–China confrontation and the conflict between the US, NATO and the EU on one side and Russia on the other, rivalries over markets, energy resources and transport routes heighten the danger of a generalised imperialist war. The New Democracy government, with the support of the parties of Euro-Atlanticism, is drawing the country deeper into these rivalries. Corporations are seeking a share of the spoils of war, while the people bear the risks of ports and other infrastructure being turned into launchpads for war and targets for retaliation. Involvement in war serves none of the interests of workers and the people!
We strengthen the front of struggle and expose who gains and who loses from this confrontation, with its war budgets and costed policy programmes.
Adapting the economy to the needs of war demands new sacrifices from workers. Arms spending and subsidies to corporations are financed by bleeding the people through taxation, cutting spending on social needs and intensifying work. This is why the struggle against imperialist war must grow stronger alongside the fight for wage increases, collective bargaining agreements, stable jobs, shorter working hours, health and safety measures, and universal, free public healthcare and education.
We resist attempts to impose “industrial peace” to intensify exploitation, as well as repression and authoritarian measures in workplaces and attempts to restrict trade union activity.
On 30 October, we strengthen the struggle to disengage Greece from imperialist wars and plans. The transport of military equipment through the country’s infrastructure must stop. Close the US–NATO bases and bring home the Greek military missions deployed abroad. We express our solidarity in practice with the Palestinian people and all peoples fighting to live freely in their own land.
PAME salutes the contribution of ENEDEP and the trade unions working to ensure the success of the strike. It calls on trade union organisations to support the strike actions and rallies with all their strength. To take similar initiatives in their own sectors and strengthen joint action in transport, energy, industry and metalworking, and in every workplace where production is subordinated to war plans.
This day concerns all workers! In every workplace, workers must rise up and organise actions and initiatives, so that workers do not become part of the war machine.
Let 30 October leave a strong legacy of organisation and internationalist action. Let us expand the ties between trade unions in different countries. Let more workers join the struggle, confident in their strength and maintaining a firm front against capital, governments and their imperialist alliances.
On 30 October, the dockworkers’ struggle joins forces with the school and university student rallies taking place that same day, strengthening the common struggle of workers and young people. The mass mobilisations across Europe express popular discontent with the rising cost of living and policies that sacrifice our needs.
Let us unite our struggles: Money for wages, housing, healthcare and education - no sacrifices for their profits and wars!
Let Friday 30 October be a day of mobilisation of the whole people! All out for the rallies in Elefsina, Lavrio, Thessaloniki, Patras, Igoumenitsa and Chalkida, and for the Piraeus-wide strike at the country’s largest port!
We carry the struggle forward with even greater determination, with the nationwide general strike on 25 November as the next major milestone!
Dockworkers don’t work for war!
Ports for the peoples and for peace - not bases for the imperialists!
Videos
Spot 1 - Hands that get dirty every day with grease, sweat and seawater will never be stained with the blood of the peoples!
https://youtube.com/shorts/TJmYBwKd8n8?feature=share
Spot 2 - War needs ports. What happens when the workers who run them say no?
https://youtube.com/shorts/8mAc-K2N4Gk?feature=share
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Call from the Trade Unions International of Transport, Ports, Fishery, and Communications Workers of the World Federation of Trade Unions to support and strengthen the international dockers' strike against imperialist wars and blockades, militarization, and port automation on October 30, 2026!
The TUI TPFC of the WFTU expresses its full and unwavering support for the international dockers' strike on October 30 against war, imperialist blockades, and the militarization of the economy.
Following a series of strikes refusing the handling and transport of military equipment intended for the genocide in Palestine, dockers’ unions - most of wich are affiliated with the TUI TPFC of the WFTU - organized a simultaneous strike on February 6 in over 20 ports across the Mediterranean, under the slogan ‘Dockers don’t work for war!’
The TUI TPFC of the WFTU welcomes the significant expansion of the upcoming mobilization on October 30, including the participation of dockers' unions that are not affiliated with our UIS: the mobilization will take place in nearly 100 ports across 4 continents, making it truly an international movement!
This aligns with the massive mobilizations of workers and youth in France, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, and Albania against the high cost of living, and for wages, housing, health, and education. The fight against the militarization of the economy is directly linked to demands for our wages, working conditions, and collective agreements, as well as for education and health.
The dockworkers' unions show us the way: they demonstrate that, beyond words and slogans, organized and united workers across borders can act together and simultaneously paralyze the economy. In this way, they can defend their working conditions and take concrete action against wars and genocides, especially the genocide of the Palestinian people; and imperialist blockades, including the criminal and illegal blockade of Cuba, which kills as many people as bombs.
The TUI TPFC of WFTU calls on affiliated dockworkers' unions to sign the Istanbul Declaration, to join the October 30 mobilization through strikes and actions in the ports, to expand the movement “Dockworkers do not work for war!”
The TUI TPFC of WFTU calls on all its affiliates in transport, fishing, and communications to show real solidarity with dockworkers through mobilizations on October 30 and to plan similar initiatives in their own sectors in the coming period.
Workers in transport, ports, fishery, and communications refuse to work for war.
They refuse to serve the imperialist machine of death and want to work for life and friendship among peoples. While the imperialists build walls, we build bridges between peoples through our struggles and international solidarity!
Honor to the dockworkers who fight against the race to war and imperialist blockades, against capitalist exploitation, and for peace and cooperation among the peoples of the world: Long live the struggle and international solidarity!
