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Solidarity to the Charleston 5 from
the Maritime Union of Indonesia
Jun 5, 2001
Dear comrades,
We from SBMNI, the Maritime Union of Indonesia, have read your report on
the Charleston 5 with amazement and anger. We thought such practices of
repression are only characteristic of countries like Indonesia, but it
seems that the bosses and the state even in the US still try to ignore
fundamental workers rights and attack the unions. We denounce such
brutal acts of violence, the more since we too are daily confronted with
such practices.
Globalisation is driving our economies more and more together. Because
of that an injury to you is an injury to us. So we wish you a combative
action on June 9 and a victory to the Charleston Longshoremen!
We hope that in the future our unions can develop a regular exchange of
information and solidarity to build the workers movement, and especially
the maritime unions, on both sides of the Pacific. For the moment we are
working on a report about our young but fast growing union. In the near
future we will send you this report and some pictures as a first step in
our solidarity links.
selamat solider, our solidary greetings,
SBMNI
yours in solidarity,
Wim Benda,
Belgian labor activist in Indonesia
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