INFOR June 2022: Globalization
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The globalization is the highest state of internationalisation. The process of exchange among countries, which has marked the development of capitalism from the mercantile era in the XVII and XVIII centuries, was expanded with industrialization, gained new bases with the big industry at the end of XIX century, and today it is acquiring more intensity, more extent and new functionalities. The whole world is involved in all kind of technical, commercial, financial and cultural exchanges. We are living a new period of human history.
The basis of this real revolution is the technical progress, obtained as result of scientific development and based on the importance that technology is achieving, the so-called science of production.
7th October: Workers Worldwide Struggle for a Universal Basic Income
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“But let justice roll on like a river,righteousness like a never-failing stream!”
(Am 5:24)
7th October has to be an imperative framework in the fight for decent work, as proposed by the ILO - International Labour Organization. In the light of advances in technology, we affirm that work, today and in the future, can be carried out in freedom and creativity, has to correspond to the needs of people and communities, it needs to respect the environment and the natural resources and must be a factor of cohesion, integration and fair distribution of wealth.
We, the activists of the World Movement of Christian Workers (WMCW), express our concern, indignation and disquiet at the way the dominant political and economic classes lead to the social and labour crisis that devastate the workers in the world and affect to the population without distinction, but especially to the most impoverished. With high unemployment rates, increasingly precarious employment, labour rights and social protection in regression in so many countries and nonexistent in many others, we are a voice of denunciation and commitment in the fight against the devaluation of human labour and to the discard of the workers.
March 8th: International Day of Women's Rights
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A day strongly rooted in the history of working movement.
In 1910 in Copenhagen, during the 2nd International Socialist Women’s Conference, which gathered to a hundred of women from 17 different countries, the idea of an “An International Women’s Day” was adopted.
The first International Women’s Day was celebrated the next year, on 19th March 1911, to demand women’s right to vote, to work and the end of her discrimination at work.
On 25th March, a fire during a seamstresses’ strike at a Triangle Shirtwaist textile mill in New York kills to 140 of the 500 workers, most of them Italian and Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, locked inside the factory. Some of them were only 14. This tragedy, linked to the exploitation of working woman, had a strong impact and later, it was commemorated during the International Women’s Day, that, then, it was linked women’s fight to working movement.
INFOR February 2022: "Global Inequalities and Unemployment
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Describing the reality about the issue «Global inequalities and unemployment» is a great challenge, since the situations around the world are so diverse and varied. Despite the tiredness, the anxiety of tomorrow, the privations, men and women still find energy to involve in the community life, to join social, trade union or political organizations. Driven by a deep faith in humanity, these workers fight together to claim, particularly to governments, rights for a greater justice and social protection.
It is from this reality, around the issue «Global inequalities and unemployment» that activists of WMCW affiliated movements from four continents, testify:
