SOLIDARITY WITH PEOPLE OF PALESTINE, LEBANON AND SYRIA
16 July 2006We are firmly on your side!
Brothers in Palestine, in Lebanon, in Syria! Brothers in Arab World!
On the difficult hours the Working class in Middle East is going through, we wish you to know that every minute, every second, day and night, our thoughts are on your side. We seriously worry about your life. We worry about peace in Region.
On those hours the savagery of Israel, the hypocrisy of USA and European Union enrage us. We feel indignation and anger because of the aggressiveness of Israeli army. The last developments show that the greatest danger for peace in South-Eastern Mediterranean is the policy of Israel.
We want you to know that during those days we have taken a number of initiatives in order to support your fair fight and the invasion in Lebanon to be stopped.
- We have visited the Permanent Representative of Greece in the U.N. and protest for the invasion of Israeli army in Gaza and Lebanon. We served a Notice of Protest and the Declaration issued by the General Federation of Trade Unions of Syria G.F.T.U. on July 4, 2006.
- We communicated the same Declaration of July 4, 2006 of GFTU Syria as well as the Statement of the General Union of Palestine workers issued on July 4, 2006 in major European Newspapers and Mass Media.
- We have called and we call upon Trade Unions to express actually their Internationalist Solidarity.
- We have sent an urgent Telegram to the ILO General Director Juan Somavia asking for his intervention in favor of the Arab World.
Besides that, W.F.T.U. has participated in big demonstrations which took place on Tuesday July 11, 2006 in front of USA and Israeli Embassies in Athens. We are also organizing new demonstrations on Tuesday July 18th 2006 still outside the embassies of USA and Israel in Athens.
We will continue with solidarity and action against criminals Imperialists. If you evaluate that in current conditions something additional should be done, please feel free to inform us.
With solid fraternal feelings
George Mavrikos
General Secretary