WORLD WORLDWIDE AUSTRALIA MELBOURNE - (en) Australia, Melbourne, MACG: Anvil, Vol 13, No 2 - Rank-and-File Organising for Palestine (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Members of the Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group are organising in

their unions and their workplaces for Palestine. ---- In October (The
Anvil, Vol. 12, No. 6) we argued that "the only way to halt the invasion
and stop Israel's murderous bombing of Gaza is for the working class to
act". Whilst the bulk of the Israeli working class is united behind
their military, Israel is dependent on imports for the majority of
armaments. This means that the international working class can act to
cripple its military. Australia exports military equipment to Israel. As
a result, workers in Australia in the arms, transport, and maritime
industries are in a position to disrupt these exports to Israel.

As We predicted in October, Trade Union officials have been unwilling to
translate their tepid support for Palestinian rights into industrial
action on the ground particularly where it is illegal. There has been
some tacit union support for "community pickets" targeting Israeli owned
ZIM shipping, and in Sydney, MUA officials have participated in these
actions themselves. But this has not yet translated into any sustained
industrial campaign.

Some activist groups have sought to substitute themselves for industrial
action by workers. Activists have repeatedly blockaded the factory of
Australian arms manufacturer HTA, which produces a component used in the
F-35 that Israel uses to Bomb Gaza. In this and other workplaces,
protest blockades can cause costly disruptions for these genocide
enablers. But production and transport resumes whenever the blockaders
go home, or when the police attack and smash the community blockade.

To achieve the serious disruption required, there is no substitute for
working class power. Workers must collectively refuse to produce or
transport war material, fuel, and other relevant supplies destined for
Israel. Our strategy must be aimed at making this possible. Is is up to
rank-and-file union militants to organise for an industrial campaign
that can win, from the base of the unions.

https://melbacg.au/rank-and-file-organising-for-palestine/
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