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This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Oct. 30, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license.
Dockworkers in more than 20 countries—from France to India to Greece—are withholding their labor on Friday to demand an end to Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza and highlight the role that commercial ports play in fueling deadly militarism worldwide.
Organizers said the work stoppages, led by dockworkers’ unions at 113 ports across 22 countries, would be the “largest coordinated port action ever,” easily surpassing the international day of action held in February. No Harbour for Genocide, a collective of trade unions and others supporting the day of action, said $2.8 billion worth of cargo will be halted at Mediterranean ports, where workers are planning to strike for 24 hours.
“A cargo refused in one port sails on to the next,” said No Harbour for Genocide. “Refused in every port, it stops, and the workers have enforced the embargo that governments announced and did not.”
In a joint statement last month announcing the day of action, dockworkers’ unions from Türkiye, Morocco, Italy, France, Greece, Italy, and Basque Country laid out their demands:
“Our strength lies in organization. It lies in our unions, in general assemblies, in collective decisions, in solidarity among workers from different countries,” the unions said. “We, the workers in the ports, know very well that without us nothing moves. Without our hands, containers remain still, ships are not loaded, the war machines are blocked.”
Al Jazeera noted that of the ports participating in Friday’s actions, “Genoa, Livorno, and Gioia Tauro in Italy, Marseille in France, Piraeus in Greece, and Tangier in Morocco all have proven links to weapons shipments to Israel.”
Dockworkers International Day of Action across 5 Continents and 113 Ports
— PAME Greece International (@PAME_Greece) October 30, 2026
In Pireaus, at COSCO’s terminals, dockworkers are holding the picket lines. Their message is clear
Dockworkers do not work for war! Ports for the peoples and for peace, not bases for imperialists! pic.twitter.com/cpOwK8XLhV
The strikes come as Israel’s genocide in Gaza continues despite a ceasefire agreement that putatively took effect last October. A United Nations report published earlier this week noted that “Israeli authorities and forces continue to commit genocidal acts” in Gaza “even after the so-called ceasefire agreement, with the intent to destroy the Palestinian people, in whole or in part.”
The report found that Israel—which is armed and supported diplomatically by Western governments, principally the United States—has “committed war crimes and the crimes against humanity of extermination, persecution, torture, rape, and other forms of sexual violence” in the illegally occupied Palestinian territories.
Port Workers and Communities for Palestine said in a statement Friday that will be demonstrating at the Port of Elizabeth in New Jersey. The coalition said the New Jersey port is the only port on the East Coast of the US where a protest is expected. Demonstrations are also expected in Oakland and San Francisco, California.
“We know that, regardless of what union leadership may decide, workers everywhere stand in solidarity with Palestine,” said Port Workers and Communities for Palestine. “We will be out there on Friday to show them that they are part of this movement too. Workers have the power to stop the war machine.”
La Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT) ha puesto en marcha a las 15.00 horas de este viernes una operación especial que se extenderá hasta la medianoche del lunes debido a la festividad de Todos los Santos, que provocará un puente en las ocho comunidades autónomas que trasladan el festivo al lunes. Durante este periodo, Tráfico prevé 5,3 millones de desplazamientos de largo recorrido por carretera.
Por el momento, el flujo de viajeros se comienza a notar en las salidas de Madrid, que están registrando atascos. De hecho, el tráfico presenta dificultades en las salidas de la capital por la A-1, en Alcobendas; A-3, en Rivas; A-4, en Butarque y Pinto; A-42, en Torrejón de la Calzada; A-5, en Arroyomolinos; y A-6, en la zona del Plantío. Además, esta autovía tiene complicaciones de circulación en la provincia de Ávila, en Arévalo hacia Tordesillas.
En Andalucía se registran problemas de tráfico en la entrada a Jaén por la A-44, tanto en Mengíbar como en Grallena; al igual que en Málaga, en la AP-7, en Benalmádena en sentido a la capital malacitana y en San Pedro de Alcántara en ambos sentidos, así como en la entrada a Sevilla por la A-49, en el entorno de Camas. En la Comunidad Valenciana, las dificultades se localizan en Alicante, en la A-7, a la altura de Elche, sentido Murcia.
El dispositivo especial finalizará en la medianoche del domingo en las comunidades donde el lunes es laborable, mientras que se prolongará hasta la medianoche del día 2 en Andalucía, Aragón, Asturias, Canarias, Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y León, Extremadura y la Comunidad de Madrid, en las que esa jornada es festiva. A los 5,3 millones de desplazamientos de largo recorrido por carretera que la DGT prevé se sumarán numerosos trayectos cortos, especialmente los motivados por las tradicionales visitas a los cementerios de poblaciones de toda España.
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