May 1, 2005
Message
Workers’ day, with or without employment
NO TO EXPLOITATION AND COMPETITION,
YES TO SOLIDARITY!
More than one billion
human beings live with less than one American
dollar per day, 2,7 billion other people fights
to survive with less than two dollars per day.
More than 880 million people, among whom 300 million
children, go hungry to bed each day. Each year,
more than six million children die of curable
or avoidable diseases such as malaria, diarrhea
or pneumonia.
In many regions of Africa,
Asia and Latin America, poverty and its processions
(lack of drinking water, deforestation, unemployment,
lack of suitable medical departments...) make
great threats for life.
Members of the World
Movement of the Christian Workers (WMCW) are convinced
that it is international solidarity - and not
free trade! - that will help impoverished countries
to fight these plagues.
Great economic powers
try to impose free trade on the rest of the world,
because they draw important advantages from this
system. Free trade allows great powers to preserve
privileged position as regards to economy, research,
trade and development.
Industrial States of
G8 impose many obstacles on countries of the Third
World which would like to sell their products
on the domestic markets of rich countries. But
these same rich countries use their influence
at the World Bank, International Monetary Funds
and World Organization of Trade to require that
impoverished countries open their borders to products
of industrialized countries.
Moreover, the current
economic system seeks to create a competition
between workers, by imposing reduction in salary
and poor working conditions.
In other words, the
great economic powers want to fix economic rules
at their advantage. And after having imposed the
liberalization of the trade of products, they
are now focusing on finances and the services,
including health, education and water. It is a
very dangerous project, because if these vital
services are privatized, only those who will be
able to afford have them. The WMCW opposes itself
to this perspective because each person has the
right to have access to water, health and education.
we cannot consider that it is about simple goods!
We cannot accept that
a small group of countries in Western Europe,
North America and East Asia continue to thrive,
while the rest of the world is deepening more
and more in the spiral of debt and misery. It
is not human!
We want to reaffirm
that the world needs generosity and solidarity.
It is necessary to grant assistance, but that
will not enough. It is as necessary to support
social justice and global solidarity, rather than
fear, mistrust, hostility, competition, rivality
and capitalist exploitation.
The cancellation of
non-payable debts is essential, but if one does
not reform the rules of the world trade, new debts
will very quickly come to replace the old ones.
As many other organizations,
the WMCW is convinced that another world is possible.
To continue its establishment, it is necessary
to refuse the system that opposes workers among
themselves. It is necessary to reduce the capacity
of capital and to encourage international co-operation
as well as the development of solidarity at all
levels.
At the moment where,
in the whole world, workers are celebrating the
solidarity which links them, the WMCW is in solidarity
with each one of them, independently of their
color, their race or their religion. We share
the hope of a fair world and, together, we demand
a decent work for all. Because it is an unbeatable
condition for the elimination of poverty and so
that each human being can grow and enjoy in dignity.
A new society is possible.
We will build it all together!
The Executive
Council of the WMCW
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