Dockworkers from over 20 Mediterranean ports are set to carry out coordinated industrial action on 6 February, following this week’s announcement by dockworkers’ unions, including Italy’s Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), targeting port authorities’ and governments’ complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

The planned action will take place simultaneously in ports across Italy, Greece, the Basque Country, Morocco, and Turkiye, with the aim of disrupting arms shipments, opposing rearmament, and challenging the use of civilian transport infrastructure for war logistics, the organizers announced.

USB said the mobilization is a response to the accelerating militarization of port infrastructure and the broader war economy, which unions assert is eroding workers’ rights and undermining social protection systems.

At least 10 Italian ports have already confirmed participation, building on dockworker actions that began in 2023 against weapons shipments to the Israelis.

The union stressed that the strike is meant to “ensure that European and Mediterranean ports are places of peace, free from any involvement in war.”