Open World Conference of Workers

In Defense of Trade Union Independence & Democratic Rights

Sponsored by the San Francisco Labor Council, the International Liaison Committee for a Workers International and the Continuations Committee of the Western Hemispheric Workers Conference Against NAFTA and Privatizations 

 

 


Open World Conference Report 

List of OWC International Participants

Conference Report Back Series:

Introduction, Program 

Inaugural Rally

Solidarity Campaign

Keynotes: Labor & Immigrant Rights 

Keynote: Daniel Gluckstein, ILC

Workshop Reports, Part 1 Reports from the following workshops: 

A) Immigration and the Labor Movement, 

B) The Struggle for Peace and Self-Determination, 

C) Women and Globalization, 

D) The Struggle Against Racism and Oppression & in Defense of Democratic Rights,  

E) A Statement from the OWC Organizing Committee on Ecuador

Workshop Reports, Part 2 Reports from the following workshops: 

F) The Struggle Against Privatization and Deregulation of Public Services, 

G) Civil Society, the NGOS, and the Struggle to Defend Trade Union Independence, H) The Struggle Against the Integration of the Trade Unions into the Corporate/Government Agenda and/or into the Regional and International Structures, 

I) Labor and the Environment 

J) The Fight Against Sweatshops, De-localizations, in Defense of Labor Codes and Conventions

Conference Final Declaration

Reports by Country:   

Africa, part 1 and part 2

Bangladesh

Brazil; Workers Party, CUT

Chile

China part 1 and part 2 

Cuba

El Salvador

France

Germany

India, Part 1 and part 2

Iran

Mexico, part 1 and part 2

Pakistan: unions/women

Puerto Rico

Russia 

Sweden

Turkey

United States 

Vietnam

Yugoslavia

Reports by Topic:

Child labor

FTAA 

FLOC & Immigrants' Rights 

ILO Conventions

ILWU

Imperialism & NGOs

Lessons of Seattle

"Neo-totalitarianism"

NG0s 

OWC Video

U.N., World Bank and WTO

WFTU

Working Women's Struggles 

 

 

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