A ship with 42 human beings on board waited two weeks off the coast of
Lampedusa. They're people fleeing the war, from misery, from captivity.
Those Responsible for those wars and the misery sit in the European
parliaments and in the Italian and European management offices. The same
people who are now bouncing back, from Rome to Strasbourg, the
responsibility of letting them down.
We are not heroes, not
politicians. Someone called us "troublemakers”. We are simple workers at
the port of Genoa, but precisely because workers, we can only recognize
ourselves in the founding values of the working class: The brotherhood
between human beings, international solidarity. Because we know well, as
everyone knows, that those men and women on the run and in search of
hope will end up, in Italy as elsewhere, to do the most exploited work
and for few money, hunted, enriching the same who shout loudly: “We
don't want you and go back to your country.”
Well, they come here because our governments have destroyed their countries.
We believe that if the Sea Watch 3 is going to force the blockade that
the government wants to maintain, it should find a real and active
solidarity and all the strength that workers and anti-racists will be
able to develop. As far as we are concerned, the Sea Watch 3 can set its
course towards our port, they are welcome here. We can block the ports,
but we can also open them.
In recent weeks, we have blocked
twice, not alone, the load of a company - the Bahri - specialized in
weapons traffic, as we were in the street to "explain” to the fascists
and to those who protect them that in our city they have no hope.
While the 30th of June is arriving and Salvini is planning to come again
to Genoa, we can only remind to everyone, and first of all to
ourselves, that another strong point of the working class tradition is
the struggle.
We know how to block the ports, we can do it again.
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