2nd International Conference of Working Youth, Havana, Cuba, April 29-30, 2012
The 2nd International Conference of Working Youth of the WFTU took place on April 29-30 in Havana, Cuba.
For two days, 135 young trade union workers from WFTU affiliated and friendly organizations from 35 countries around the World discussed with maturity, enthusiasm and inspired by the principles and values of the international class-oriented trade union movement.
A new WFTU Youth Secretariat was elected, that will be in charge to materialize the action plan approved by the Conference.
Below you can read the final declaration adopted by the Conference: Final declaration.pdf
Pictures of the eventInterview with Bob Crow, General Secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) of Britain
WFTU Press Room: Which is the core of the policy for the railways that both the previous and the current government are promoting in Britain?
Bob Crow: It is a continuation of the European Union policy for the break up of any nationalized monopoly (e.g nationalized companies) and return it to private monopolies because for the full control of the transport system in the basis of profits. Those services that do not make money will be closed down and they will try to keep more money for themselves in the expense of keeping ...
Greece, Athens: The TUI and Regional Offices held their yearly meeting with the WFTU Secretariat
The yearly meeting between the WFTU Secretariat, the TUIs’ leadership and the Heads of the Regional Offices of WFTU was held on the 8th of May 2012 in Athens Greece.
The meeting was one more step in the course of implementing the resolutions of the 16th World Trade Union Congress for the strengthening of the Trade Union Internationals and the Regional Offices of WFTU.
The main point in the agenda of the meeting, the preparation of the International Action Day on the 3rd October 2012, was thoroughly discussed.
...WFDY Statement on 9th of May - The Great Victory of the Peoples
The 9th of May will always be the day that the peoples all around the world will remember it as the day of the Great Peoples Victory against the fascist threat. It was the day that in 1945 the Soviet Flag was raised in Reichstag symbolically marking the end of the Second World War and the Antifascist Victory of the Peoples. Nazism and fascism were not created by chance or by some madmen. It was the result of the imperialist contradictions, the monopolies antagonism for the share of the ...
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