DEATH TOLL: Toll Holdings Drives Genocide

Anonymous Submission

22.11.24

Actionists disabled a truck and built flaming barricades to block one entrance to Webb Dock, an international port terminal in so-called ‘melbourne’, ‘australia’. Webb Dock houses Toll Holdings, a company transporting bullets and bombs used to murder Palestinians, Aboriginal people and other martyrs of western imperialism.

In the words of the Container Transport Alliance, ‘protestors came armed with rubber tyres, accelerant and matches to light fires to block road access and allegedly brought sharp tools to slash truck air lines’. Companies ‘are feeling increasingly vulnerable to attack, criminal damage and delayed operations’.

The supply chain for genocidal weapons includes logistics firms. Two ‘Australian’ companies, Toll Holdins and K&S Corporation, have been identified transporting weapons for export to the US, where they are used to support “Israel’s murderous campaign against Palestine. BUilding off Palestine Action’s successful campaign against Kuehne+Nagel, which culminated in that firm dropping its contract with Elbit Systems, we declare a goal of forcing Toll and K&S to cease abetting genocide and renounce all contracts with Thales and any other weapons manufacturers.

Toll Holdings and K&S provide equipment to physically trnasport genocidal weapons. They also support the arms trade by enabling Thales to invest and operate at low financial risk. Their trucks have been observed and photographed entering Point Wilson pier, a dedicated Victorian facility for military imports and exports, to meet ships en route to Sunny Point, the primary terminal for shipment of weapons and ammunition for the US military. Thales calls Toll a ‘key transport partner’. Toll describes Thales as a ‘very important part of our business’, assigning staff with titles like Senior Manager Explosive Services to oversee the partnership. K&S also list Thales as a ‘key customer’.

All of Toll and K&S assets in so-called ‘Australia’ are on Aboriginal Land, where no consent for settler-colonisers to underwrite genocide has been given.

Toll Holdings is a platinum sponsor of Land Forces, the largest arms trade exhibition in the Southern hemisphere. In ‘Brisbane’, Toll partner with Leonardo to provide helicopters for the Australian military.

At Benalla, NIOA Munitions shares a tenancy with Thales and is a major supplier for Australian police, producing 70% of their ammunition as at 2017. Munitions used to repress, terrorise and dispossess Aboriginal communities are manufactured at this site, likely including the bullets that murdered Kumanjayi Walker. These are presumptively transported by Toll and/or K&S as logistics companies servicing the Benalla facility.

All Toll Holdings and K&S owned sites and equipment are legitimate targets for anti-genocide actions. These may include sabotage, vandalism, blockades, strikes, occupations and all forms of material resistance and disruption. Everything is on the table.