The Congress was concluded with the election of the President and the Presidential Council. Brother Muhammad Shaaban Azzouz was re-elected in the position of the President for the next 5 years. Moreover an electoral procedure took place for the voting of the Presidential Council were 598 representatives and 213 observers (advisory vote) voted for the new Presidential Council.
“We had nothing to fear, and this is why we managed to organize an open, democratic Congress.” Cde Mavrikos made clear that WFTU has to make more progress regarding its work in the sectors, for the women, for the young workers, with the progressive artists. “With collectivity and internal democracy In the lines of WFTU we have to construct a front against bureaucracy and opportunism. We have two enemies to face in our struggles: the employers and the leadership of the compromised and sold-out trade unions who both aim to the dissolution of the class-oriented trade union movement. Internationalism must be strengthened and so does the labor solidarity in an organization that has to ensure the unity in its base, the social alliance of the workers, the self-employed, the natives, the unemployed, the poor farmers. All this have to target the radicalization of their consciousness and their evacuation from ephemeral struggles.
The central target of our struggle should be the contemporary needs of the working family, the planetary problems, the health and security, the major drug problem, the media that form manipulated consciousness, the ensuring of the democratic rights and generally the reversal of a system that cannot be made up.
Solidarity to the working class of all countries, to those who struggle for the life and the rights, for the abolition of exploitation, to all of those who struggle and we are standing on their side, they should not give up. You should know that this struggle will be a victorious struggle.”
The Congress ended with the “International”.
