No Peace, No Work!
On Mayday 2008 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) shut down all 26 ports on the west coast of the United States for at least eight hours in opposition to the US war against the people of Iraq. So far as we know, there has never before been a strike of American workers to stop a war our government was waging, making this heroic action historically unprecedented. Workers stayed off the job and in major port cities they marched, proud, in their union jackets, banners unfurled. In response, dock workers in Iraq shut down the port there for two hours. It was like a blinking signal light on a distant shore at night, acknowledging that the message of solidarity had been received.  PepperSpray was there to document this heroic moment.

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The attack on Basra is an attack on labor
According to Iraqi labor leaders, when the US took over in Iraq there was only one law—left over from Saddam Hussein—that the US  occupation kept in place, the one prohibiting unions. But where there are workers, there will be unions and this general principle held true under the rule of Saddam, and still holds true in Iraq today. Iraqi unions are secular and non-sectarian. Among other things, dock and oil workers in Iraq are fighting against the privatization of their oil fields and ports. They have had a fair amount of success. The oil workers ran KBR out of the oil fields, and the dock workers ran MAERSK out of the port. It is fair to say that when the puppet government forces launched the recent attack on Basra, it was an effort to use military might to crush local resistance to privatization. Giant oil wants, after all, to be the sellers of Iraqi oil, not the buyers, and unions are getting in the way. This piece gives you the story corporate media would not tell.