Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 09:51:27 +0100
From: Antagonism <mrnobody-AT-geocities.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: IWW on Wharfies (EN)


obu-AT-teleport.com wrote:

> An international Call to Support the Australian Wharfies! (...)

> The IWW is calling for international actions of solidarity with the
> Australian Wharfies. We are asking:
>
> 1) Longshore workers: refuse to unload, or go slow unloading, Australian
> scab cargo.
>
> 2) Create support groups to work in conjunction with local dockers unions
> to prevent unloading of scab loaded ships.
>
> 3) Support groups to promote a boycott of all Australian products.
>
> 4) Protests in front of Australian embassies and consulates. (...)
>
> The General Executive Board, Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the
> Wobblies)

This isn't any more than any other unions are asking for, and isn't any more than
the tactics used in the case of the Liverpool dockers defeat. Australian workers
are already more advance than this, in that workers from other industries have gone
on strike in support of the dock-workers. We need different tactics if we want a
different result to Liverpool. Struggle across sectional/union boundaries, outside
and against the unions.

Here's the URL of a leaflet from a year ago on the Liverpool docks strike
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill//Lobby/3909/bridges.html

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