FROM THE FRONT LINES OF WORLD CLASS STRUGGLE

“cargo chain” as described by radical dockworkers from around the world, meeting in Charleston, S.C.:

“The people who move the world can also stop it,’ radical dockworkers like to say, and that captures the essential fragility of a global production and distribution system that depends on the precise coordination of hundreds of thousands of moving parts. If some of those moving parts—workers at a major trucking hub, a major rail switching network or, especially, a strategic string of ports—refuse to do their part, the whole system gets jammed up. Refuse long enough and broadly enough, and the system would be in crisis. “