Sweden: dockers go on the offensive after union leader fired for blocking military cargo to Israel In February, Erik Helgeson, the national deputy chair and spokesperson of the Swedish Dockworkers’ Union, was fired. The reason? The union voted to block the handling of military equipment destined for Israel. In response to the workers’ decision, Gothenburg Roro Terminals (GRT), owned by Danish shipping giant DFDS, came down in full force against Helgeson, who was dismissed on the bogus grounds of being a threat to “national security”. This is an unprecedented attack on the Union and Helgeson, who has been a leading figure among the Dockworkers since the collective bargaining dispute of 2017. The union is alleged – by the employer, not the state – to have broken the law by compiling a dossier for the Swedish Labour Court "on the military trade exchange with Israel". But this is nothing more than a cheap excuse, since the dossier is based on public information. The union has taken the GRT to court over the illegitimate firing of Helgeson. The problem is that the multinational company operating the port can easily absorb the small fines that any court asks it to pay. DFDS reported a revenue of more than a billion euros in the first quarter of 2025 alone. Therefore, the union is now demanding an amendment to their collective bargaining agreement, where wrongful dismissals would incur damages of 1 percent of the employer's annual turnover. They are also demanding greater damages for other attempts to obstruct the work of elected worker representatives. In addition, they are demanding a strengthened obligation for the bosses to enter into negotiations, a ceiling on the use of temporary workers, a larger fund for supporting workers in need, and more.
https://marxist.com/sweden-dockers-go-on-the-offensive-after-union-leader-fired-for-blocking-military-cargo-to-israel.htmDeir Yassin: A Brutal Massacre Carried Out By Zionist Death Squads in 1948 Etched Into the Consciousness of PalestiniansDeir Yassin is why we resist—to reclaim our stolen village and avenge the blood of our martyrs. Throughout the storied history of Palestinian resistance, heroes vowed revenge in the name of Deir Yassin: resistance fighters killed 77 zionists in an operation four days after the 1948 massacre, the Deir Yassin Unit of Arab resistance fighters carried out an operation that killed 40 settlers under the command of martyr Dalal Al-Mughrabi in 1978, and the Deir Yassin Operation of 1972 was an internationalist feat of anti-imperialist resistance that shook the world. The Deir Yassin Operation was launched 53 years ago today. Three Japanese comrades—Bassem, Salah, and Ahmed—joined forces with five Palestinian comrades to strike the zionist entity at its heart. Their real names were Tsuyoshi Okudaira, Yasuke Yasuda, and Kozo Okamoto, and they were members of the Japanese Red Army, which received weapons, training, and finances from the PFLP. They had trained in Lebanon, and all were students: Bassem of architecture, Salah of electrical engineering, Ahmed of botany, and all of revolution.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/19398/The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin Chapter 8: Ways and meansIf a society, a city or a territory were to guarantee the necessaries of life to its inhabitants (and we shall see how the conception of the necessaries of life can be so extended as to include luxuries), it would be compelled to take possession of what is absolutely needed for production; that is to say – land, machinery, factories, means of transport, etc. Capital in the hands of private owners would be expropriated, to be returned to the community. The great harm done by bourgeois society, as we have already mentioned, is not only that capitalists seize a large share of the profits of each industrial and commercial enterprise, thus enabling themselves to live without working, but that all production has taken a wrong direction, as it is not carried on with a view to securing well-being to all. There is the reason why it must be condemned. It is absolutely impossible that mercantile production should be carried on in the interest of all. To desire it would be to expect the capitalist to go beyond his province and to fulfil duties that he cannot fulfil without ceasing to be what he is – a private manufacturer seeking his own enrichment. Capitalist organization, based on the personal interest of each individual employer of labour, has given to society all that could be expected of it: it has increased the productive force of Labour. The capitalist, profiting by the revolution effected in industry by steam, by the sudden development of chemistry and machinery, and by other inventions of our century, has worked in his own interest to increase the yield of human labour, and in a great measure he has succeeded so far. But to attribute other duties to him would be unreasonable. For example, to expect that he should use this superior yield of labour in the interest of society as a whole, would be to ask philanthropy and charity of him, and a capitalist enterprise cannot be based on charity. It now remains for society, first, to extend this greater productivity, which is limited to certain industries, and to apply it to the general good. But it is evident that to utilize this high productivity of labour, so as to guarantee well-being to all, Society must itself take possession of all means of production.
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