People's Democracy(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
Vol. XXXVII
No. 19 May 12, 2013 |
Central Workers’
Amanulla Khan
THE
Central de Trabajadores
la Argentina (CTA), a trade union centre of
The
congress evoked
unprecedented enthusiasm and energy and the existing office
bearers of the CTA
were unanimously re-elected. An important aspect of the
congress was the rich
tributes paid to Hugo Chavez for his massive contribution to
improving the life
of the working class and the poor not only in
The
congress, attended
by nearly 1000 delegates from all parts of
As a part
of this
Congress, the CTA organised the Second International
Conference on Development
and also hosted the regional coordinators meeting of the
Southern Initiative on
Globalisation and Trade Union Rights (SIGTUR).
CONFERENCE
ON
DEVELOPMENT
The Second
International
Conference on Development was held on April 11-12, 2013,
with around 51 trade
union leaders from 30 countries across the globe
participating in it. Amanulla
Khan represented
The theme
of the conference
was "Workers' Political Vision: Power Initiatives for the
Necessary World."
This theme was chosen with the understanding that the
working class is
experiencing a double crisis today. The crisis within the
national boundaries
is affecting the workers, their organisations and their
working conditions as a
result of the advancement of interests of capital. Secondly,
the external
crisis is due to the development model being imposed
throughout the world, which
is constantly pillaging natural resources and undermining
the ability of the
workers and societies to use and profit from common goods.
This second crisis
is defined as the common crisis. But this dual crisis is in
essence one single
crisis, triggered by the advancement of the most savage form
of capitalism the
world has ever experienced. In this context it becomes
necessary for workers to
find common ground to fight neo-liberalism.
There was
lively and
informative debate on the subject. Each
country had its own experience of struggle. Neo-liberalism
has brutalised the
life and living standards of the working class across the
globe. The working
class of
Trade
union leaders from
Intervening
in the
debate, Amanulla Khan said the experiences of
The
conference concluded
with the understanding that international cooperation of
working class is
necessary to connect the local struggles in workplaces and
individual territories
to global struggles. For this, the working class must
closely work together.
The working class has to reinvent resistance and also strive
to build an
alternative model of development in favour of the poor and
the dispossessed.
The
conference was a
great experience and helped the participants understand the
struggles taking
place against neo-liberalism across the globe.
SOUTHERN INITIATIVE
COORDINATORS MEET
The CTA
was also the
host to the SIGTUR (Southern Initiative on Globalisation and
Trade Union
Rights) coordinators meet. This meeting was held on April
8-9, 2013. The regional
coordinators from
This
meeting reviewed
the progress the SIGTUR made since the
A proposal
was placed by
Robert Lambert, coordinator, for organising a futures
commission in
The
speaker of the House
of Representatives of Argentina, Sr Julian Andres Dominquez,
invited the SIGTUR
delegation to the parliament and hosted a tea party, while
the international
conference was held at Buenos Aires Legislature Hall. The
leader of the house
came to greet the participants. This reflects the increasing
influence of the
trade unions in