01 Friday May 2015
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May Day 2015 has arrived! It is the hope and inspiration of the working class. On this day, my revolutionary Greetings to all our comrades, friends and well-wishers!
Let us make all out efforts to bring in a world, where each and every one has a space, a living and all rights to grow.
Towards a new dawn! May Day Zindabad!
26 Sunday Apr 2015
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WFTU has issued the following statement expressing solidarity with Nepal people who face the worst natural calamity of earth quake.
WFTU solidarity with Nepal after earthquake
26 Apr 2015
ASIA PACIFIC, NEPAL, SOLIDARITY
A catastrophic earthquake hit Nepal yesterday, leaving thousands of people dead and causing great disasters. The WFTU Secretariat has issued the following solidarity statement.
The World Federation of Trade Unions expresses its deep sorrow and complete class solidarity with the working class and the people of Nepal for the national calamity caused by the catastrophic earthquake of a 7.8 magnitude that left thousands of people dead and caused great disasters.
Our thoughts go to the families of the victims. We express our moral support for the workers, the trade union movement, our affiliates in the country and to the people of Nepal. On behalf of the 92 million organized workers in 126, we repeat our solidarity and we call upon all our affiliated and friendly trade unions to express their support and solidarity to the Nepalese workers and people.”
03 Friday Apr 2015
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The pensioners on the path of struggle in GreeceThousands of pensioners, in rallies and mobilizations in over 20 cities, who had responded to the call of the pensioners’ organizations, demonstrated yesterday and demanded the payment of the Easter bonus to everyone, the restoration of pensions and rights to pre-crisis levels and the abolition of the anti-people laws. They also demanded exclusively public and free healthcare and medical cover. At the meeting the delegation of the pensioners had at the Ministry of Labour, the deputy minister of Social Security, Dimitris Stratoulis, merely repeated the position of the government regarding the return of the Christmas bonus to the poorest pensioners, without answering the demand for the immediate return of the Easter bonus. He also repeated that the government will not further reduce the pensions. So, in essence, the SYRIZA-ANEL government refused to make any commitment in relation to the just demands of the pensioners. Dimos Koumpouris, president of the Pensioners’ Federation and member of the CC of the KKE, speaking to the demonstrators, stressed that the issue is not merely for the pensions not to be further reduced, as the pensioners today can no longer deal with their problems. He called on the pensioners to be vigilant, as the government’s negotiations with the lenders are being carried out with the same rationale as the previous government had. He underlined that the pensioners will continue to fight to recover what has been taken from them and prioritize the issues of pensions and healthcare |
24 Tuesday Mar 2015
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World Federation of Trade Unions(WFTU) is celebrating its 70th Foundation Anniversary on 3rd October 2015. A circular issued by WFTU in this connection is given below:
Athens, Greece – March 23rd, 2015
APPEAL
To: All WFTU members and Friends
Subject: 70th Anniversary Commemoration Events
In October 3rd, 2015 our historic Organization celebrates its 70 years of militant and internationalist struggle. On this Occasion the Presidential Council of the WFTU has decided to appeal to all members and friends of the WFTU to commemorate in every country this great anniversary.
With events, seminars, lectures, open rallies and mass activities we call all members and friends to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the WFTU throughout the year 2015. To pay tribute to the struggles of the working class and the class-oriented trade union movement in every country, to pay tribute to the martyrs who fought for the betterment of the working class and humanity, to educate the next generations with the achievements, the difficulties and the importance of the class struggle, to spread the awareness about the positions and the tremendous role of the WFTU in the struggle against imperialism, colonialism, apartheid, exploitation.
After the end of the anniversary celebrations, the Secretariat announces that a Special Publication will be released for the 70th Anniversary Events around the world to collect in one publication the activities, the pictures, the articles about the events.
We ask from all members and friends to inform us about the activities they organized, to send us pictures, speeches and articles in the media about these events.
All materials to be send in the emails of the WFTU: international@wftucentral.org,info@wftucentral.org and press@wftucentral.org
22 Sunday Mar 2015
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Madrid, Mar 22 Thousands of demonstrators from across Spain gathered at one of Madrid’s main squares to protest against the way the government has tackled the financial crisis by implementing harsh austerity measures.
Organisers had hoped to attract 20,000 protesters to the event, labelled Marches for Dignity, and yesterday evening much of Colon Square and part of Paseo de Recoletos boulevard were packed with people carrying republican flags and banners calling for a general strike.
Hairdresser Dolores Cerezo, 32, who had arrived from southern Sevilla, said the government had cut back “savagely” on public services such as education and the national health service, “but we are seeing many of them now appearing in court suspected of fraud and corruption, of stealing money.”
Scuffles broke out after the main rally ended. Riot police clashed with about 200 protesters who had attacked a bank and a police car.
10 Tuesday Mar 2015
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A massive rally was organized on March 4th, 2015 in Cyprus by trade union Confederations against the European Union, Troika and their policies of austerity and poverty for the people.
“Society resists and demands” was they main slogan of the rally attended by more than 10,000 protestors.
Unemployed, Workers, Farmers, Students and Self-Employed joined forces in the rally which took place outside the Conference Center in which the European Central Bank was holding its meeting.
The General Secretary, George Mavrikos joined and addressed the rally expressing the solidarity of the international class-oriented trade union movement in the struggle of the Cypriot people. (WFTU Report)
08 Sunday Mar 2015
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8th March is being celebrated as International Women’s Day since 1911. It is being observed in most of the countries.
Women have been discriminated and are being denied equal opportunity and equal justice in the society. They are discriminated in jobs,wages, society, home, schools, worship places – every where. Thousands of years of male dominance has relegated the women to a second position. This still continues and some times is increased.
All the religions have given prominence to men at the cost of women. The fundamentalists of each and every religion are targeting women. Attacks are on women world wide. They are molested, harassed, raped and killed. The recent statement of a convict in the Nirbhaya case, clearly shows the mindset of many in the society.
There have been many women Presidents and Prime Ministers in several countries, including India. But the condition of women has not improved as required. The mindset of the society has to be changed.
It is not a small fight. It is a very very long fight. It is not the fight of women only, it is a fight by the men and women. The progressive forces and the working class have a great responsibility in the matter.
The society can not move forward with one leg, the women, tied to a post. Both legs have to move equally, freely and in cohesion. In the socialist society, there will be no discrimination between men and women. They will have equal rights and equal responsibility.
Let us all pledge to day, to make all out efforts to bring gender equality, equality for men and women.
05 Thursday Mar 2015
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04 Mar 2015
WOMEN’S DAY, WOMEN’S RIGHTS – WFTU MESSAGE
The World Federation of Trade Unions salutes the working women worldwide and reaffirms its commitment in the struggle for the real equality against exploitation and capitalist barbarity. A struggle which unites working men and women under the banners of the class-oriented trade unions.
We pick up the struggle from the seamstresses and weavers of New York in 1857 demanding fewer working hours, equal pay for equal work, safer and better working conditions, complete liberation from the chains of exploitation.
We pick up the struggle from the labor leader Clara Zetkin and the militant women in the Copenhagen Conference in 1910 who dedicated this day to all working women in honor of the US women workers struggles.
We pick up the struggles of all working women in the 70 years of the militant and internationalist struggle of the World Federation of Trade Unions who with their strength and determination contributed for the betterment of the working women and men worldwide.
The struggle of the workers movement and the women workers movement has brought important results and gained significant rights through the decades.
We continue today 158 years after 1857 while the same rights are under attack.
We continue today because one and a half century later, the working hours are increasing contrary to the rate of scientific and technological progress. We continue today because workers and working women’s salaries are decreasing contrary to the tremendous wealth being produced by us. We continue today because still in the 21st century the right to employment, education, healthcare, social security, maternity protection, proper social services, freedom of association, collective bargaining and to real equality are yet not fulfilled.
We continue because the right to peaceful, prosperous and secure life for our families and our children is continuously under threat by imperialist mechanisms and monopolies.
We continue side by side, working women and working men, in the same struggle for all we deserve.
We fight for the lives we deserve not the lives the IMF, the World Bank, the imperialists, the monopolies and the employers want to form for us.
We fight on the side of women and men farmers and self-employed to build the social alliance against exploitation and capitalist barbarity.
International Women’s Day Zindabad!
03 Tuesday Mar 2015
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| The Workers of Forthnet Company(the second largest internet provider company in Greece) decided unanimously in their General Assembly to go on Strike on March 5.
The strike follows the lay off of a member of the Trade Union’s leadership, the tactics of the company to lay off older workers with established rights so as to replace them through outsourcing, health and safety problems and more issues. The Trade Union of Workers in Forthnet has been in continuous struggle since its foundation, 2 years ago, to better the working conditions and to stop the daily lay offs. The demands of the strike are
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We express our solidarity and support to the struggle!
02 Monday Feb 2015
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After the election of an anti- austerity government in Greece, the anti-austerity movement in Spain is strengthening. A report on the massive mobilisation in support of the anti-austerity measures is given below:
MADRID, Jan 31 (Reuters) – Tens of thousands marched in Madrid on Saturday in the biggest show of support yet for Spanish anti-austerity party Podemos, whose policies and surging pre-election popularity have drawn comparisons with Greece’s new Syriza rulers. Crowds chanted “yes we can” or “tic tac tic tac” to suggest the clock was ticking for Spain’s scandal-ridden political elite. Many waved Greek and Republican flags and banners reading “the change is now” or “Pablo president.” Podemos (“We Can”) was formed just a year ago by university professor Pablo Iglesias, but produced a major shock by winning five seats in elections for the European Parliament in May. Tapping into Spaniards’ austerity fatigue and widespread anger at “la casta,” as it calls the country’s business and political elites, it is currently topping opinion polls in the run-up to local, regional and national elections this year.
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