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DESCRIPTION:ILWU 10 meeting for  Mumia with presentation on ILWU Local 10 delegation to 
 South Africa and Durban Commemoration conference on 50th anniversary of 
 Duban working class uprising about apartheid.\n\nResolution of this trade 
 union Celebration of the 1973 mass strikes in Durban, South Africa, 29 
 January 2023\nThis conference of trade unions, workers and supporters of 
 the labour movement resolves as follows:\nWe celebrate the massive 
 solidarity of Black workers in 1973 which started the social revolution in 
 South Africa which is still burning. Freedom has not resolved the deepest 
 inequality, unemployment and poverty of the world which continues in South 
 Africa as workers live in conditions of privatization, casualization, mass 
 unemployment, homelessness and destitution.\nThe mass unions which were 
 built in the 1970s need to be reborn in the original spirit of workers 
 democracy and the strongest commitment to socialism.\nWe celebrate the 
 women who led in the 1973 strikes and beyond including June Rose Nala, Jabu 
 Ndlovu, Thembi Mpisi and dedicate ourselves to researching and highlighting 
 the role of women labour leaders in South Africa.\nWe salute the generation 
 of resistance of 1973 captured in photos, we acknowledge the marvelous work 
 of workers themselves as well as Barney Dladla who gave everything to the 
 movement, we resolve to spread this heritage throughout South Africa, 
 Southern Africa and the world.\nWe salute the South African transport 
 workers who, in April 2008, refused to offload the ZIM vessel carrying arms 
 from China to Zimbabwe.
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\nWhereas we refer to ILWU San Francisco 
 Local 10 resolution: Free Innocent and Framed Political Prisoner Mumia 
 Abu-Jamal (attached).\n We warn workers of the war against trade unions 
 that foreign investment is waging on workers, particularly miners. We give 
 full solidarity with Namibian Rossing miners who have been fired for 
 fighting to safeguard trade union rights and now find that all labour has 
 been out- sourced.\nOn March 28, 2023 we support labour community actions 
 worldwide at all Chinese embassies and consulates demanding that they 
 reinstate the dismissed mineworkers in their jobs.\nWe resolve to rebuild 
 the dock workers international combine to mobilize practical solidarity to 
 achieve union hiring halls in all ports around the world. We will end 
 labour broking once and for all! There should be practical union-union 
 support in exchanges, education, and on-going discussion of our 
 priorities.\nWe resolve to oppose privatization of our jurisdiction, jobs, 
 and dock workers by all means necessary. Privatization can take many forms; 
 formal contracts, internal plunder and private appropriation without formal 
 out-sourcing, out-sourcing of essential activities (without any public 
 review), and the sale of dock land to billionaires. All this we refuse to 
 accept and will resist by local and international action.\nThe ports should 
 be overseen by workers themselves to be safe, have good working conditions, 
 be productive in the interests of all workers and every part of public 
 property must be secured.\nWe also call on Transnet immediately to provide 
 recognition to RETUSA and to stop all privatization of ports and rail.\nWe 
 resolve to stop all present and future police terror in US and 
 internationally. We want justice for comrade Tyre Nichols whom was brutally 
 beaten and murdered by American police after being stopped for reckless 
 driving by five police in Memphis, Tennessee.\nWe resolve to fight against 
 the utter destruction of our world by rapacious capitalism which is failing 
 to break its links to fossil fuel. Instead, it is utterly committed to 
 massive profits in gas, oil and every\n\n destructive source of energy. We 
 stand in solidarity with the peasants and workers of Pakistan which have 
 had their lives devastated by floods of climate change. We have solidarity 
 with those made homeless by vastly destructive floods in Durban in 
 2022.\nWe resolve to build a socialist world meeting the needs of all by 
 the full development of renewable sources of energy such as the sun and the 
 wind. The world needs scientists and engineers to dedicate themselves to 
 building such energy sources and provide energy free to mankind.\nWe are 
 appalled to see rival imperialisms arming themselves to the teeth in the 
 Ukrainian war. The taxes from working people in the US, EU and Russia are 
 now being diverted from redressing the devastation of climate change and 
 impoverishment to the means of death and destruction. We call on workers in 
 the US, EU, in Russia and China to organize to stop the mobilization for 
 war which will end all our futures.\nWe call for the release of all itrade 
 unionists and workers internationally. We note the imprisonment of 
 independent trade unionists such as Hennadz (Gennadyi) Fiadynich, leader of 
 the electrical workers union, REP, in Belarus. We call on the Belarusian 
 regime to release him immediately before he succumbs to chronic illness and 
 all other trade unionists who are political prisoners.\nWe support a 
 worldwide labour action against Israeli ships and trade, including against 
 the ZIM shipping line and a global labour boycott of Israel in support of 
 the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign.\nWe call 
 on all unions to build trade unions on the basis of workers’ independence 
 from alliances of all types. We have heard evidence in South Africa and 
 elsewhere of the vast destruction of industry and jobs that has come about 
 by parties which represent capitalist interests even as they firmly deny 
 this.\n\n We also call on the Durban Municipality, the African National 
 Congress, COSATU and all trade unionists and parties to make plaques to 
 commemorate the resistance of the stevedores housed at Southampton Road who 
 ignited the 1973 strikes, the Bambatha prisoners of war who built the 
 northern pier and harbour and developed the Umgeni quarry, and the 
 thousands of railway workers housed in barbaric conditions in the SARH 
 barracks in Camperdown Road. This must be done by May Day 2023.\nWe 
 dedicate ourselves to energize organic working-class intellectuals and 
 leaders.\nWe call for the opening the books of the AFL-CIO to hold them 
 accountable for their financial support of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) 
 and we call for compensation to be paid to the families of those many 
 thousands who were killed by the IFP.We call for an end to the funding of 
 the AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Centre by the National Endowment Fund.\nWe call 
 on all workers in every country to take up the struggle for mass workers’ 
 parties to represent workers interests, to construct an economy without 
 destroying our universe, to provide good quality work for all, and to 
 guarantee a future for our children.\nILWU Local 10 resolution: Free 
 Innocent and Framed Prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal\nWhereas, Mumia Abu-Jamal has 
 been imprisoned in Pennsylvania for 41 years, 29 of those years on death 
 row, and\n  \n Whereas, in 2002, during contract negotiations he wrote 
 articles from prison supporting the International Longshore and Warehouse 
 Union (ILWU) when President Bush threatened to send troops into the ports 
 and invoked the slave labor Taft-Hartley Act against our union when we were 
 locked out by PMA, and\nWhereas, he is being defended by the Vermont 
 AFL-CIO, the Portland Painters’ Union Local 10, the International 
 Dockworkers Council, ILWU Local 10, the National Union of Metalworkers of 
 South Africa (NUMSA), that country’s largest union, whose letter to the 
 governor of Pennsylvania stated that Mumia is being treated like imprisoned 
 freedom fighters in apartheid South Africa who when they became sick were 
 left to die, and\nWhereas, 6 boxes of files on Mumia’s case were 
 mysteriously “discovered” in the Philadelphia District Attorney 
 Krasner’s office in 2019. In it a hand-written message to D.A. McGill 
 from the star witness, Robert Chobert, at his trial was found demanding 
 money owed him for his perjured testimony. And\nWhereas, Judge Wendell 
 Griffen of the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Arkansas declared that this 
 evidence was illegally withheld from Mumia’s defense attorneys and that 
 Blacks were unconstitutionally excluded from the jury, that Mumia should be 
 released and is entitled to a new trial, and\nWhereas, Judge Lucretia 
 Clemons on December 16 ordered the prosecution to give access to the 
 defense to all 200 boxes of documents on Mumia’s case and she gave the 
 defense and prosecution 60 days to examine them, and\nWhereas, D.A. 
 Krasner’s intransigent opposition to Judge Tucker’s ruling that Mumia 
 has a right to an appeal shows that there is no justice\n\nin the racist, 
 capitalist courts for Black Panthers and working class political 
 prisoners,\nTherefore Be It Resolved that this dockworkers conference in 
 Durban, South Africa calls for international labor actions to free Mumia on 
 February 16 – the end of the judge’s 60 days – to free 
 Mumia.\nAdopted by the Organizing Committee and those present at the 
 Workers and Trade Union Conference including:\nJoseph Dube, General 
 Secretary of the Revolutionary Transport Union of South Africa 
 (RETUSA)\nThe International Longshoreman and Warehouse Workers Union (ILWU) 
 Local 10\nJabu Nala-Hartley, daughter of June Rose, Labour councilor in 
 Oxford and socialist\nWorkers’ International Network, a world-wide 
 network of labour activists fighting for socialism\nDavid Hemson, trade 
 unionist, socialist and social historian Steve Zeltzer, labour journalist, 
 WorkWeek\nCarol Lang, history professor, New York UFCLP\nUnited Front 
 Committee For A Labor Party\nHoshino Defense Committee and International 
 Labor Solidarity Committee of Doro-Chiba \nLabor United Educational League 
 (LUEL)\n\nURGENT: Please table this resolution at your trade union or 
 labour movement branch and notify us of endorsements; send to David Hemson 
 dhemson@gmail.com and info@ufclp.org\n 
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SUMMARY:ILWU 10 Meeting On Mumia & Report From Trip To South Africa
LOCATION:ILWU Local 10 Henry Schmidt Room\n400 North Point St.\nSan Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/03/07/18854785.php
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