Open World Conference of Workers

In Defense of Trade Union Independence & Democratic Rights

ILC INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER NO. 105

A dossier of weekly information published by the International Liaison Committee of Workers and Peoples
November 18, 2004

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World Conference of the International Liaison Committee of Workers and Peoples

MADRID -- March 18, 19 and 20, 2005

The registration form for the Conference is included in this issue.

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To contact us:

ILC International Newsletter
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Thursday, March 17, 2005 in Madrid

INTERNATIONAL RALLY
"For the Equality in Rights Between Women and Men in Society, particularly in Labor Relations."

This public meeting will be held in the conference hall of the UGT (General Workers' Union) in Madrid, on Thursday, March 17 at 6 p.m. On this occasion we will report on the initiatives that have been taken throughout the world on the occasion of the International Women's Day on March 8. At this International Rally For Women's Rights, For Workers' Rights, we will have the occasion to make new campaign proposals that will be submitted to the ILC World Conference.

Some of the speakers include:

Louisa Hanoune, Deputy, general secretary of the Algerian Workers' Party
Nancy Wohlforth, Secretary-Treasurer OPEIU, AFL-CIO* United States
Rubina Jamil, President of the Working Women's Association, Pakistan

(* title listed for identification only)

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Friday, March 18

AFRICA TRIBUNAL

"The international labor movement and the fight for peace in the context of the deadly conflicts that ravage the continent and its peoples."

The Continuations Committee of the Permanent Tribunal to judge those responsible for the deadly evolution that threatens the workers and peoples on the African continent will meet from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. This committee was formed after a meeting of the Africa Tribunal that was held in Los Angeles in February 2000. With developments in Cote d'Ivoire and further new deadly conflicts ravaging the continent, the leaders of trade union confederations from 21 countries launched a common appeal for peace.

Among those who will be presenting reports are the following:

Lybon Mabasa, President of the Socialist Party of Azania, South Africa
Norbert Gbikpi Benissan, Secretary General of the UNSIT (National Union of independent trade unions of Togo)
Bill Fletcher, Jr., Trans Africa Forum, Washington, D.C.
Raymond Gauthierot, Secretary General of the UGTG trade union federation (Guadeloupe)

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EUROPEAN MEETING
"For peace, democracy and labor rights"

At a time when the question of the European Constitution and the plans to widen the European Union are paramount in all European countries, a new session will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. of the "European Meeting for Peace, Democracy and Labor rights." This meeting with worker activists, elected officials from all political affiliations, began in Geneva in June 2004 with an appeal for united action against the European Constitution. The subject of the debate will focus on "the consequences of the directives of the European Union and the independence of the labor movement vis-à-vis the institutional processes leading to its integration."

Some of the who will present reports include:

Alexandre Anor, Deputy of the Socialist Party of Geneva (Switzerland)
H.W. Schuster, Director of the Workers Commission of the SPD in Dusseldorf (Germany)
José Miguel Villa, Secretary General of the Federation of Services UGT in Madrid (Spain)
Vitali Kulik, Borotba Organization (Ukraine)

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- The World Conference of the ILC will begin on Friday, March 18, 2005 at 5 p.m. with registration of the delegates.


6 p.m. Inaugural session of the
WORLD CONFERENCE OF THE ILC

The First speaker will be Daniel Gluckstein, Coordinator of the International Liaison Committee of Workers and Peoples

followed by:
Julio Turra, Executive Commission of the CUT trade union federation (Brazil)
Walter Johnson, Secretary-Treasurer-Emeritus of the San Francisco Labor Council, AFL-CIO
Taffazul Hussain, President of the National Federation of Workers in Bangladesh

The conference will be held in the grand amphitheater of the University of Madrid

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Saturday, March 19

- 9 a.m. Introduction to the discussion by Roger Sandri (France)

Throughout the day the following reports are proposed:

Gene Bruskin, co-chair of USLAW *
On the fight of the U.S. trade union movement against the war in Iraq

Patrick Herbert, Secretary General of the Departmental Union CGT-FO (Force Ouvriere) in Loire-Atlantique, France *

Chan Kawai, Director of the magazine Change in Hong Kong
On the labor situation in China

A representative of the National Union of Workers (UNT) of Venezuela
On the place of labor organizations in the fight against privatization of oil and for national sovereignty

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Sunday, March 20

- 9 a.m. the discussion continues.

During the morning information will be presented on the women's international meeting, on the European meeting and the Africa tribunal.

- The conference will end at 4 p.m. after the adoption of a final declaration

Appeal for a World Conference
of the International Liaison Committee
of Workers and Peoples

(March 2005, Madrid)


We -- the undersigned trade unionists, elected officials, and labour activists from various political backgrounds; all of us firmly committed to the defence of the working class and its demands, for the independence of the labour movement -- hereby agree to answer favourably to the proposal by the International Liaison Committee of Workers and Peoples to convene an ILC World Conference in Spain in mid-March 2005. Such a gathering will allow a free and open discussion of issues that are fundamental to the labour movement and that are addressed in the attached contribution for a World Conference.

We have promoted and/or participated in many initiatives taken in common with the ILC in recent years, either in a personal capacity or on behalf of our organisations: defence of labour rights, fight against deregulation, defence of ILO conventions, fight against war and military occupations, for peace, for the defence of democratic rights, against repression, for trade union independence, for the defence of the sovereignty of nations and the fight against the "free trade" agreements.

We have promoted the struggle against the effects of globalisation, against social deregulation, and against the destruction of Labour Codes, collective-bargaining agreements and statutes. We therefore consider that it is necessary to organise a World Conference, "in order to assess accurately the world situation today and to define in common the course of action necessary to oppose the anti-worker policies imposed by global capitalism."

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Contribution to the Discussion

The International Liaison Committee of Workers and Peoples was set up in Barcelona (Spain) in January 1991 at the first Open World Conference. It brought together delegates from all continents.

Since that time, several conferences have been held, with the participation of groups, parties, trade union organisations and worker activists from various political origins -- all dedicated to the defence of the working class, of its demands as well as the class independence of the organisations to which they belong.

The ILC led the fight against the plans for structural adjustment imposed by the IMF and the World Bank, plans that led to the liquidation of public sectors and Labour Codes for the benefit of a generalised privatisation.

These policies, founded on the plans of structural adjustment, contributed to the destruction of the nation-state as political entities, for the benefit of a society founded solely on relations between individuals.

This destruction imposed by the global economy and its structures, all placed under the domination of the big multinational corporations, opens the way to what has been called "communitarianism" -- which is supposed to transcend the division of society into social classes rooted in contradictory and antagonistic interests and the harsh reality of class struggles, expression of man's exploitation by man.

The International Liaison Committee of Workers and Peoples does not seek to substitute itself for the different international organisations, nor to enter into competition with any of them.

That is why, in its own right, the ILC simply wishes to be the meeting point for all worker activists acting throughout the world for the strict defence of the particular interests of workers, for the defence of democratic liberties and the free exercise of trade union rights, which is its main purpose.

This supposes the freedom of the workers to be able to organise themselves in the trade unions of their choice.

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On February 22, 23 and 24, 2002 an International Conference Against Deregulation and For Labour Rights For All was held in Berlin.

On the occasion of that conference, all the delegates, representing 51 countries, placed into evidence the situation in each particular country:

A- Workers are confronted with the consequences of the policies of deregulation and privatisation in every country, all of which attack labour rights and social conquests.

B- Those who set into motion these policies in every country threaten the independence of trade unions.

C- In all countries workers are confronted with the question: Can one resist, and if so, how is it possible to defend and preserve what has been conquered? It is therefore necessary to draw up a balance sheet of the situation and the actions taken since 2002.

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Since 2002, date of the Berlin conference, several events intervened, the most prominent of which was the invasion of Iraq by the U.S. Army. The moral justification advanced by Bush, arguing this was in reprisal for the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack against the twin towers in New York, actually masks the reality of the imperial economic motivations, placing the control of the oil resources in the center of the debate. This is the domination of the big North American capital on the "Middle East."

To put it simply, for lack of ability to take on the terrorists directly, chief among them their leader Bin Laden, it was Iraq and its leader, Saddam Hussein, who served as scapegoats for the U.S. offensive.

Today, everyone is aware of the non-existence of ties between Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. A very official governmental report presented in Washington at the beginning of the summer of 2004 indisputably established the non-existence of such ties.

It is clear that in the name of economic interests, the President of the United States wanted to settle accounts. This criminal policy led the Middle East and the world to the situation that we know, daily dragging to death scores of Iraqi citizens and U.S. soldiers.

The immense majority of workers from all over the world, while condemning terrorist actions and affirming their solidarity with the U.S. people and the workers, condemned this new imperial war.

The pretext invoked by the Bush administration was the restoration of democracy in Iraq. The ILC, for its part, has taken actions in the sense of a very real democracy. This applies to the free expression of Iraqi workers.

Along with different U.S. trade union organisations against the war and different labour union federations in the Arab world, the ILC intervened efficiently with the International Labour Bureau of the ILO so that the exercise of trade union rights would be recognised for Iraqi workers, and in the first place, the right to organise themselves in a union of their choice, on the basis of class independence, independence from the government and the multinationals and Iraqi employers.

The exercise of democratic liberties is inseparable from these fundamental principles.

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The ILC pursued its fight against the effects of globalisation, in particular against social deregulation accompanying this phenomenon; that is, the assault on the whole array of social conquests, labour codes, collective bargaining, personnel statutes, especially those working in the public sector.

The information conveyed by the ILC, the regular contacts with worker militants from every region in the world, has often tripped on the foot of bureaucratic apparatus engaged in the process of accompanying globalisation -- just as it has contributed to demystifying the false theories spread by the "alter-globalisers" on all sides, all of whom in fact simply provide cover for and accompany those very same policies of global capitalism.

Those countries industrialised in the old tradition, until now apparently protected, are today confronted with the total opening of markets. Because of the planned disappearance of the nation-states, the absence of regulations provokes deep upheavals in the economic and social structures, which can be measured by the reduction on the part of industry in the GDP.

The completely open market economy opens the way for a market society founded on the lowest cost of production; the cost of labour in the added value is the first to be targeted, and is constantly reviewed downward.

From here a capitalist logic is developed, based on "relocations," with the rapid means of communication facilitating the connection between those giving orders and those who execute them.

The race to reduce social expenditures to the fullest extent has become the leitmotif of the capitalist production process in its universal field, all being stirred up by an exacerbated competition where anything goes, the first victims being the workers sacrificed on the altar of the profitability of capital and the return on investment imposed by finance capital, the only master in the game.

After industry, services are also concerned by this capitalistic redeployment.

Daily, thousands of jobs are lost or downsized, adding to the permanent social insecurity.

But let us be clear here, it is not a question of demanding a return to the protectionism that generated wars.

On the contrary, we consider it urgent to return on a world plane to a system of order and a universal form of regulation.

For the ILC, this takes priority in the form of a return to a system of Conventions abandoned by the ILO in 1998 under the pressure of multinationals and in the first place by U.S. President Bill Clinton -- in the name of a vague "Charter of Fundamental Principles," platonic in character and without any judicial constraints other than good feelings.

The ILC continues to maintain pressure for the return of the previous ILO conventional system, involving all the member states of the UN.

In this sense, the support of all the national delegates supporting the actions and campaigns of the ILC is indispensable.

Added to all these elements of social regression are the attacks against social security, against public services, against Labour Codes and collective bargaining.

This is why we believe it is necessary to hold a new world conference destined to assess accurately the world situation today and to define in common the course of action necessary to oppose the anti-worker policies imposed by global capitalism.

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Madrid Conference of the International Liaison Committee of Workers and Peoples (March 2005)

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Initial Endorsers of the Madrid 2005 World Conference of the ILC

AFRICA

South Africa
- Tyani Lybon Mabasa, President of the Socialist Party of Azania, SOPA
- Success Mabaitsane, National Union of Public Service Workers, in the name of my organization
- Simon Sonyane, National Workers of Hôtel Restaurant Catesing, in the name of my organization
- Mankulu Lesufi, South Africa Stae and Allied Workers Union, in the name of my organization

Algeria
- Saïd Sidi, General Secretary l'UGTA, in name of organisation
- Hanoune Louisa, Deputy, General Secretary, Workers Party
- Loucif Timsiline, trade unionist (Woodworkers Federation, UGTA)
-Benyoucef Zenati, General Secretary, Office Workers, Alger (UGTA)
- Fares Nasri, member, C.E.F communaux (UGTA)
- Kherbache Zoubida, Deputy, Workers Party
- Haouchet Yassine, Director, Healthcare Sector, UGTA
- Tehami Mohamed, trade unionists (UGTA Education)
- Bousmaha Houaria, trade unionist (UGTA Education)
- Belouadah Messaoud, trade unionist (UGTA)
- Ziane Abdelkrim, UGTA of Medea
- Denfir Ali, member of secretariat, UGTA, Annaba
- Bodj Aouï Karim, member of secretariat, UGTA, Bejaia
- Djafer Kamel, Deputy, Workers Party
- Takdjout Amar, trade unionist, Deputy
- ArfouTni Abderahrane, Deputy, trade unionist metal workers union

Burkina Faso
- Sagnon Tolé General Confederation of Workers of Burkina (CGT- B), in the name of the organisation

Burundi
- Nkunzimana Paul, General Secretarydu Syndicat de l'Université du Burundi (STUB) in the name of the organisation
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Cameroun
- Essiga Benoit, President, General Workers Federation CGT-Liberté
- Mbille Martin, Secretary-Treasurer , General Workers Federation CGT-Liberté

Congo
- Mulamba Mbumba Justin, President, Democratic Workers Federation (CDT)

Côte d'Ivoire/Ivory Coast
- Yao François, Synaseg, in the name of the organisation

Djibouti
- Adan Mohamed Abdou, General Secretary, Union Djiboutienne du Travail (UDT)

Gabon
- Mebiame Evoung Léon, Trade Union Congress of Gabon (CSG), in the name of the organisation

La Réunion
- Barret Jean-Claude, General Secretary, Mouvman Antikolonyalis Renyone (Past President de l'UGTRF)
- Houssein Mohammad, anticolonial activist, Mouvman Antikolonyalis Renyone (Past General Secretary, Mir)
- Sinimale Georges Serge

Central African Republic
- Patrice ZAKARIA, General Secretary, SNECASU

Chad
- Djibrine Assali Hamdallah, General Secretary, Union des syndicats du Tchad (UST)
- NGARMADJAL Gami, General Secretary. Teachers Union of Chad (SET)

Togo
- Gbikpi-Benissan Tétévi Norbert, General Secretary, National Federation of Independent Unions of Togo, in a personal capacity
- Ameganvi Claude, Workers Party of Togo, in the name of the organisation


AMERICAS

Bolivia
- Miguel Zubieta, Secretary of the Executive Commission, National Federation of Mineworkers of Bolivia

Brazil
- Turra Julio, member of the national executive commission of the CUT
- Matos Walter, member of the national executive commission of the CUT in the state of Amazonia
- Oliveira Isaac, member of the executive board of Sintrajufe CUT (federal judiciary workers trade union) (Pernambuco)
- Jácome Ricardo, General Secretary of Sindsep - DF (federal civil servants of Brasília)
- Jensen Tomás, economist "Nossa América", São Paulo
- Bitarello Flávio, member of the executive board of CONTEE - CUT (Confederation of Education workers).
- Batista Junéia Martins, member of the executive board of Sindsep (Municipal workers trade union.) of São Paulo
- Mariano Adílson, municipal councillor PT of Joinville (Santa Catarina)
- Damasceno Clayton, municipal councillor PT of Sarandi (Paraná)
- Baima Gardênia, member of the executive board of CUT Ceará - Boito Misa, member of the executive board of PT of the state of São Paulo
- Izidoro Ronaldo, member of the executive board of Sindiute (Education workers) Vespasiano (Minas Gerais)
- Freire Paulo Paixão A., member of the executive board of Sintep (teachers) of Mato Grosso
- Cupolillo Roberto, member of the executive board CUT of the state of Minas Gerais
- de Oliveira Pinto Aparecida, trade unionist of Sinpro (teachers) of Juiz de Fora Minas Gerais
- Rosa Josias Luciano, member of the executive board of security agents trade union, Juiz de Fora (Minas Gerais)
- Monteiro Lobato João Bosco, vice - President de la CUT of the Federal District (Brasília)
- Vieira Josenildo, member of the executive board of CUT in the state of Pernambuco
- Sokol Markus, member of the national board of PT
- Rosa Maurício, member of the national executive board of CUT in the state of Santa Catarina
- Ferreira Roque, Member of the executive board of the National federation of railroad workers (FNITST - CUT)

Chile
- Mesina Luis, member of the executive Commission of the Confederation of bank workers in Chile.

Ecuador
- Cadena Manuel Ushiña, General Secretary of the Committee of Municipal Workers of Sewage and Drinking Water of Quito (CETEMAAP-Q)
- AREVALO Bohorquez Olwin Anibal CETEMAAP-Q
- Guanoluisa Vicente, Secretary of Industrial Security CETEMAAP-Q
- Huayamave León German, President of the Committee of former workers and pensioners of the Electric Company of 'Ecuador
- Herrera Intriago Carmelina, Association of Social Security Employees, IESS
- Guayaquil Izquierdo Alberto, ex - docker of the Port Authority of Guayaquil
- Limaico José, President of the Artistic and Industrial Society of Pichincha
- Santana Guillermo, OSRT

Guadeloupe
- Gauthierot Raymond, Secretary general, of the UGTG federation
- Fabert Victor, member of the trade union council of the UGTG, in a personal capacity

Mexico
- Braulio Sánchez Hernández, trade union delegate of the SITUAM (Trade union of professors of the Metropolitan University in Mexico)
- Cabrera Armando Pasos, trade union delegate of the SITUAM, (Trade union of professors of the Metropolitan University in Mexico)
- Reyes M.Fernando, member of the executive board of section 22 of SNTE - CNTE (National trade union of education personnel in Oaxaca.
- Velázquez P. Paulina, member of the executive board of section 35 du SNTSS, (Trade union of social security personnel) - Serrano Monroy Fernando, SPAUNICACH, (Trade union of professors at the university of Chiapas)
- Palma Misael, Movement for a Party of democratic and independent workers, (MPTDI), Chiapas,
- Carranza Adriana Morales, SPAUNICACH,
- Brindis Russell Aguilar, General Secretary D - II - 112, section 7 of the National Teachers Trade Union (SNTE)
- Brizuela Humberto Martínez, member of the editorial board of El Trabajo
- Reyes Juan Carlos Vargas, Revolution Youth
- Hernández Gustavo, section XXXIV of SNTSS, (Trade union of social security personnel)
- Villavicencio C. Miguel, section XXXIV, SNTSS, (Trade union of social security personnel)
- López Javier Cañizares, miner, Cananea, Sonora
- Xochipa Maria Carro, trade union leader of 'INI (National indigenous institute)
- Hernández Ricardo Ortega, SITUAM, (Trade union of professors of the Metropolitan University of Mexico)
- Vázquez Luis, trade unionist STUNAM, (Trade union of professors of the Metropolitan University of Mexico)
- Limón Gema López, researcher sy the University of Baja California

Peru
- Rios Demetrio Ruiz, President coordinator of the Defense Front of factories in Sucre
- Gonzalès Azucion Llupo, General Secretary of Pondleo trade union, in the name of the organisation
- Vasquez Sanchez Jorge, leader of the Defense Front of factories in Sucre, Pucala
- Tapia Luis Arturo Reano, secretary of the organisation, CGTP, Chiclayo,
- Vasquez Erwin Salazar, President of the CGTP, Lambayeque

United States
- Nancy Wohlforth, Secretary-Treasuer, OPEIU (AFL-CIO) and Co-chair Pride at Work (AFL-CIO), in a personal capacity
- Robert Irminger, ILWU/IBU Delegate to San Francisco Labor Council; member, ILC delegation to Venezuela (Aug. 2004), in a personal capacity
- Howard Wallace, Vice President, San Francisco Labor Council (AFL-CIO), in a personal capacity
- Andy Griggs, United Teachers Los Angeles; LA-US Labor Against War, in a personal capacity
- Walter Johnson, Secretary-Treasurer-Emeritus, San Francisco Labor Council (AFL-CIO), in a personal capacity
- Julian Kunnie, Africana Studies Department, University of Arizona at Tucson; Free Mumia Campaign, in a personal capacity
- Ed Rosario, President, Graphic Communications International Union (GCIU) Local 4N, in a personal capacity
- Dan Kaplan, California Federation of Teachers, San Mateo Community College, in a personal capacity
- Alan Benjamin, Co-Chair, Open World Conference Continuations Committee; Exec. Bd. member, San Francisco Labor Council (AFL-CIO), in a personal capacity
- Larry Duncan, Co-producer, Labor Beat, Chicago

Venezuela
- Chirino Orlando, national coordinator of the National Union of Workers of Venezuela (UNT), in a personal capacity
- Maspero Marcela, national coordinator of the National Union of Workers of Venezuela (UNT), in a personal capacity


ASIA

Bangladesh
- Tafazzul Hussain, President, Bangladesh Jatiyo Sramik Federation (BJSF)
Signed on behalf of the Federation.
- Md. Zakir Hossain, General Secretary BJSF
- M. Shariat Ullah, Secretary, Chattagram Bandar Sramik Union (Chittagong Port Workers Union)
- Majibur Rahaman, President Dinajpur Textile Mill Workers Union, Dinajpur. Bangladesh.
- Ms. Saleha Sattar, Co Convener. Ganatric Mahila Shangha (Democratic Women's Organization)
- Ms. Shamim Ara, Women Affairs Secretary, BJSF.
- ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury, Mayor Chittagong City Corp.

China
- Apo Leong
- CHAN Ka Wai, Associate Director, Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee
- Michael Siu, International Secretary Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU)

Korea
- Jung Sik hwa, Vice President, Korea Metal Workers Federation

India
- H. Mahadevan, Deputy-General Secretary, All India Trade Union Congress
- Y.V Chavan, All India Blue Star Employees Federation/Trade Union Solidarity Committee, Mumbai
- Sarva Shrramik Sang, All India Blue Star Employees Federation/Trade Union Solidarity Committee, Mumbai
- N.Vasudevan, All India Blue Star Employees Federation/Trade Union Solidarity Committee, Mumbai
- Chandan Kanti Sanyal, National Federation Of Sales Representatives' Union (N.F.S.R.U.), General Secretary / N.F.S.R.U.
- Subramaniyam Munusamy, Nadu State Construction Workers Union (TMKS), Chennai

Lebanon
- Khadidje El Hussaini,

Malaysia
- S.Arutchelvan
Secretary General, Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) -- Socialist Party of Malaysia)
- Parti Sosialis Malaysia

Pakistan
- Gulzar Ahmed Chaudhary, All Pakistan Trade Union Federation
All Pakistan Trade Union Federation
- Rubina Jamil, All Pakistan Trade Union Federation
- Aima Mahmood, Working Women Organisation
- Nasir Gulzar, Progressive Youth organization
- Fazale Wahid, General Secretay, Railways Workers Union
- Samina Amin, President Punjab Teachers Employees Association
- Ghulman Fatima, President Bonded Labour Liberation Front
- Junaid Awan, APTUF Karachi, Railway colony
- Farid Awan, United Workers Union TMA Lyarri Town, Karachi-Sind
- Muhammad Nasim, Pakistan Workers Confederation, Railway Quarter Karachi
- Muhammad Ishaque, Ittehad Capet Labour Welfare Union, Karachi

Philippines
- Bilayon Edgar, Assistant General Secretary of the Workers' Party

Syria
- Djemam Hacene, International Confederation mof Arab Trade Unions (CISA), in the name of the organisation


EUROPE

Germany
- Birkhahn Manfred, retired executive director ver.di, Berlin member of the follow-up committee of the Berlin conference
- Döring Rainer, executive board ver.di Berlin, President of the trade union delegates of urban transport, Berlin
- Volkmar Schöne, executive board labor commission SPD Berlin, executive board ver.di, Berlin
- Eisner Udo, IG-Metall
- Müller Jürgen, SPD
- Timmermann Olaf, SPD, ver.di
- Weigt Hans, ver.di
- Krupp Gotthard, executive board labor commission SPD, Berlin, executive board ver.di Berlin member of the follow-up committee of the Berlin conference
- Boulboullé Carla, former deputy of Land NRW, GEW (Teachers trade union, member of the follow-up committee of the Berlin conference
- Zutz Axel, executive board labor commission SPD Berlin, IG-BAU (Builders and agricultural workers trade union)
- Uhde Werner, ver.di, IAV, International Liaison Committee of Workers and Peoples
- Fast Bodo, SPD, former secretary ver.di, Berlin
- Noack Wilfried, SPD, President of the committee of unemployed of ver.di,Brandenburg
- Matzke Cornelia, former deputy of Land Sachsen, ver.di
- Hahn Gaby, executive board labor commission SPD, Sachsen, ver.di
- Völcker Peter R., labor commission SPD, Sachsen, IG-Metall
- Seiler Jana, ver.di
- Schüller Klaus, executive board labor commission SPD of Thüringen, DGB, member of the follow-up committee of the Berlin conference
- Gerhold Karlheinz, executive board labor commission SPD, Sachsen - Anhalt,Secretary ver.di, Berlin
- Schuster H.W., executive board labor commission SPD, NRW, trade union delegate ver.di
- Paternoga Paul, executive board labor commission SPD NRW, council of personnel IG-Metall
- Hauptmann Justine, SPD, elected official in NRW
- Frey Henning, SPD, executive board ver.di, Cologne, IAV, International Liaison Committee of Workers and Peoples
- Altmann Michael, executive board labor commission SPD Hessen executive board ver.di, Francfort
- Beschorner Christof, SPD, personnel council ver.di, Francfort
- Becker Heinrich, executive board GEW, Hessen
- Wesemann Klaus, executive board SPD labor commission SPD, Francfort. - Wesemann Doris, ver.di
- Schoo Bodo, executive board labor commission SPD, Düsseldorf
- Kaiser Werner, ver.di - Kirschner Bernd, ver.di, personnel delegate
- Mees Hans - Jürgen, ver.di, executive board ver.di, Düsseldorf

Belgium
- Palmans Olivier, principal delegate CGSP
- Ruggieri Antoine, former trade union official GFTB Cockerill Sambre

Biélorussia
- Ouchkine Oleg, (group Baratsba)

Spain
- Sanchez Juan, General Secretary of the national federation of service workers, FES - UGT
- Gonzalez Luis, General Secretary CCOO Health Seville
- Marquina Pedro, General Secretary Transportation Federation of UGT Basque Countries
- Perez Jesus, delegate UGT Chemicals Basque Countries
- Montalban Ventura, trade unionist CCOO, Valencia
- Ortega Blas, UGT Valencia
- Martinez Jose Ricardo, trade unionist UGT Madrid
- Villa José Miguel, General Secretary of the Regional Federation of services FES - UGT Madrid
- Montalban Antonio Cocouncillor of United Left , Valencia
- Pedrero Juan, Federal health executive board commission CCOO
- Chacon Carmen, executive board commission CCOO
- Bautista Antonio, Provincial Union CCOO Seville
- de Zayas Rodrigo, writer, Seville
- Bejar Jesus, trade unionist metalworkers, CCOO, Union Comarcal Z south Madrid, editorial board of 'Informacion Obrera
- Aguilera Rafael, Barcelona Committee of the Public Service Federation UGT
- Felip Pere, leader of'associations of the quartier Baléares
- Collado Enrique Sanchez, General Secretary Union Comarcal UGT Millars la Plana Palancia, Castellon
- Palmer Rafael, Baléares, representative Medical Assn AMDDEM
- Salvador Sixto, municipal councillor EUPV Nules Castellon.
- Santolaria Pedro, trade unionist FES - UGT Valencia
- Lopez Jose Antonio Gonzalez, trade unionist CCOO Asturia

France
- Savy Aimé, assistant mayor Ivry sur Seine
- Schivardi Gérard, mayor of Mailhac, General Counsel
- Goursaud Gérard, mayor of Brie sous Matha
- HEBERT Patrick trade unionist
- Chaintron François, trade unionist education
- Brunet Marie - Edmonde, trade unionist, education
- Paris Jacques, trade unionist education
- Pepers Véronique, trade unionist, Chemical
- Loew Jean - Claude, trade unionist, Chemical
- Perrotte Yann, trade unionist Chemical
- Sifflet Patrice, Manifesto of the 500 for trade union independence
- Grandazzi François, free thinker
- Sybelin Yannick, trade unionist
- Lamy Luc, trade unionist
- Simonnin Michèle, trade unionist
- Marquiset Jean-Charles, Manifesto of the 500 for trade union independence
- Gluckstein Daniel, national secretary of the Workers' Party, Coordinator of the International Liaison Committee of Workers and Peoples
- Doriane Olivier
- Moutot Dan
- Vincenot Dominique
- Schidlower Marie-Claude, Women's Commission of the ILC
- GUERIN Jean-Louis, trade unionist, docker.

Georgia
- Eradze Zviad, worker activist.

Great Britain
- Tony Richardson, Wakflield CLP TULO, Bakers Union, President Wakefield TUC
- Charlie Charalambus President, Torbay TUC,TGWU 2/441 Newton Abbot &
Mid-Devon Br
- Stefan Cholewka, EC Rochdale CLP, TGWU, LiNK editor
- Steve Burke, secretary Rochdale CLP, GMB
- Robin Rankin, Rochdale CLP,TGWU
- Sue Wilks, Students Union, Leeds University
- Dr. Nat Queen, Birmingham University, AUT
- Nigel Maroney, Skipton & Sutton Labour Party, TGWU

Italy
- Varaldo Lorenzo, executive board UIL - Education, Turin
- Montanari Guido, University Professor
- Daniele Gabriella, Trade union delegate CGIL
- Guglieri Gianni, Trade union delegate UIL - Chemical
- Croce Ugo, editorial board of Tribuna Libera
- Defeudis Rita, trade unionist CISL - Education
- Chieffa Antonella, trade union delegated CISL - Education Magenta - Milano
- Sala Maria Grazia, teacher, Milano, CGIL trade union.

Moldavia
- Beï Corneliu, worker activist

Portugal
- Pereira Carmelinda, former deputy of the Constituent Assembly, trade union activist
- Rodrigues Aires, former deputy of the Constituent Assembly, leader of the POUS

Russia
- Droujininsky Miklhaïl, secretary of the free trade union of tramway conductors in St Petersburg
- Safronova Daria, worker activist
- Guerm Alissa, worker activist

Switzerland
- Schenk - Gottret Françoise, deputy PSS, Geneva
- Anor Alexandre, deputy PSS, Geneva
- Deley Luc, trade unionist, member of the PSS, Geneva
- Pestoni Grazziano, deputy of the PSS, Tessin, trade union secretary of Public Services(SSP)
- Blanco Luis, trade unionist, FTMH

Ukraine
- Koulik Vitaly, "Borotba Union"
- Protsenko Sergueï, "Borotba Union"
- Koulik Andreï, " Borotba Union"
- Novikov Igor, " Borotba Union"
- Michine Andreï, " Borotba Union"
- Syrinskaia Lena, " Borotba Union"
- Babytch Bogdana, " Borotba Union"
- Kovaltchouk Valeri, " Borotba Union"
- Viltsianiouk Ivan, " Borotba Union"
- Poltorakov Alexeï, "Borotba Union"

Yugoslavia
- Imsirovic Pavlusko, worker activist
- Milunovic Jacim, trade unionist, PUT "Nezavisnost"

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