Workers have been bringing the moral bankruptcy of governments into sharp relief by disrupting the arms trade. In June 2019, Marseilles dockers blocked a shipment on suspicion that a Saudi shipping container was carrying ammunition destined for the Kingdom’s devastating war on Yemen.
Members of the CGT union issued a statement: they would never ship ‘any weapons or arms whatsoever, for whatever war they may be destined’. It’s the second blow to Saudi belligerence after UK courts ruled arms sales to the Kingdom unlawful in July.
