Decisions of the 7th World Trade Union Congress, Budapest, October 17-24, 1969 Part I

Vintage Leftist Leaflet Project

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Leaflet: Decisions of the 7th World Trade Union Congress, Budapest, October 17-24, 1969 

We looked previously at a World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) leaflet in our post Trade Unions and the Challenges of the 1980s, 10th World Trade Union Congress, WFTU Havana, 1982. 

As we noted in that post the WFTU was founded in 1945 and exists to this day. It is now headquartered in Athens and its website can be found at  www.wftucentral.org

The WFTU consisted of trade unions that were often affiliated with or sympathetic to communist parties, the Socialist Bloc and non-aligned, anti-imperialist movements during the Cold War.

This leaflet deals with a wide array of issues confronting trade unions, workers and the anti-imperialist movement at the time. Due to its length we have divided the leaflet into two parts of which this is the first.

The first part has statements regarding the centenary of the birth of Lenin, the war in Vietnam, progress that was being made on social security issues in the Socialist Bloc and a "Telegram to Nixon" among other things. 

One noteworthy quote that applies all too tragically today as well:

While the whole world is astonished by the unprecedented achievements of science, inadmissible living conditions remain for millions of human beings. 
Millions of people are suffering from hunger and malnutrition. 
Illiteracy is the scourge of many countries in the world.
At the same time, an ever more restricted minority of wealthy people hoards the riches, the fruit of the exploitation of the workers. 

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When The Left Chapter began part of what I wanted to do on the blog was to show and highlight vintage public leftist election/political leaflets and booklets. While many of these have been offered with commentary to date, a very large collection of hundreds of them from several different sources remains and to preserve these often quite rare documents we will be posting them on a regular (almost daily) basis now often without or with minimal commentary so that people may have access to them as quickly as possible as an historical resource.

While these will all be leaflets from a variety of different leftist viewpoints and countries, they are being posted as an historical/study resource and the views or opinions expressed in them do not necessarily reflect the views of this blog or blogger.

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