With little sign that the genocide in Gaza is abating, dockworkers in Italy’s major port cities have taken matters into their own hands. Organizing strikes and mass demonstrations, they are moving to block the shipment of arms to Israel — a direct rebuke to the paralysis and complicity of governments and international institutions that have failed to confront the slaughter.
While the devastation continues, these workers are offering something rare: material resistance. By leveraging their strategic position in the global supply chain, they are demonstrating how labor power can be wielded against war and occupation.
The question now is whether this “Italian way” — rooted in solidarity and industrial action — will spread across the imperial core. Can dockworkers and unions elsewhere follow suit? And if they do, could coordinated disruption help bring an end to the genocide?
