Resumiendo rápido. Su acción internacional en el 2013 ha sido de apoyo a los trabajadores griegos (a Vio.Me, a los de la televisión ocupada, etc), a los estibadores de Hong Kong, y a los de Foxconn (no sé de donde será). También han estrechado vínculos con sindicatos de la AIT y con los de la Coordinadora Rojinegra. Además han consolidado algunas secciones en Europa (la noticia siguiente del periódico dan una info sobre IWW Lituania) y la de Uganda.2014: A New Year For International Solidarity
By the IWW International Solidarity Commission (ISC)
The time is ripe for international solidarity with inspiring movements taking shape around the world. The incoming ISC intends to build on the work of previous Commissions, while finding new campaigns and projects that are of interest to us.
The 2013 ISC is wrapping up an action-packed year with campaigns and activities reaching many parts of the world. The ISC focused on supporting the struggle of our Greek fellow workers to rebuild the radical workers movement; connecting with workers’ struggles in East Asia, including raising funds for the Hong Kong dockworkers strike and organizing a speaking tour about the Foxconn workers; as well as building our bonds with unions affiliated to the International Workers Association (IWA-AIT) and the Red & Black Coordination. The 2013 ISC also did much to further the growth of the IWW as a global union by supporting our branches and groups in Europe and Uganda.
The incoming 2014 ISC features J. Pierce, Bill B., and Florian H., from Phoenix, Ariz.; Portland, Ore.; and Toronto, Ontario, respectively.FW J. Pierce returns this year, having been on the ISC back in 2004, with new interest in the world of miners’ struggles. Based on the experiences of the Phoenix IWW in supporting miners in West Papua and his current relationship with the Cananean miners, J. hopes to both connect miners’ struggles globally as well as assist branches in targeting a local cor-porate headquarters and communicating with that company’s overseas employees. “The ISC has come a long ways in the last decade,” remarks J. “We’ve had delegations to Haiti, Palestine, and Northern Mexico. We’ve hosted tours and led campaigns and assisted in the growth of the global IWW. We’ve built up so many strong relationships that our incoming ISC has a lot of great material to work with.”
FW Bill B. comes to the ISC with decades of international experience having lived in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Eu-rope and having visited over 50 countries. “Just because I have a lot of experience,” explains Bill, “that doesn’t mean I don’t have a lot to learn. I Aprreciate the guid-ance and advice of all hands, old and new, and look forward to working together.”
FW Florian H. was a successful, if spontaneous, write-in candidate to this year’s ISC. Florian brings to the Commission his work with the Freie Arbeit-erinnen-und Arbeiter-Union (FAU-IWA) in Germany and his international experiences in the auto industry overseas, hav-ing traveled to many different countries and taken part in the workers’ movements there. “As solidarity is our weapon, international solidarity is our silver bullet in our struggles and campaigns. Within the new ISC I am happy to provide my international experience to improve our worldwide relationship to revolutionary unions as well as continue and start in-ternational campaigns.”
On the agenda for 2014 is continu-ing and expanding the ISC’s “Working Groups” based on region or interests. We want to create strong working groups to support our allies, such as the National Garment Workers Federation in Bangladesh or the Independent Workers Federation of Palestine, and multiply the IWW’s efforts to build an invincible working-class movement the world over.
A continuación hablan de los artículos de varios compas que han traido a conocimiento de los IWW muchas luchas locales de trabajadores de todo el mundo. Creo entender que han fichado a un compañero de la FAU para las relaciones internacionales (se habrá ido a vivir a los USA, imagino).
El año que viene expandir los grupos de trabajo de la comisión de solidaridad internacional (ISC) basada en regiones e intereses. Quieren crear grupos de trabajo de apoyo para sus aliados como la NGWF de Bangladesh o un sindicato independiente de Palestina.
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IWW es un sindicato muy pequeño a escala USA. Pero aún así tienen capacidad de gestionar muchas relaciones internacionales a muchos niveles diferentes. Tienen un nivel propio, de extensión de la IWW a otros países; tienen un nivel de contacto con la AIT y otros sindicatos anarcosindicalistas o sindicalistas revolucionarios; y tienen un contacto o alianzas con otros sindicatos de izquierda, de base o combativos de todo el mundo.