See the end of this post for details on the project.
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.
The leaflet we are looking at here is long enough that we split its posting into two parts. The first post can be found here. This is the second part.
This leaflet deals with a wide array of issues confronting trade unions, workers and the anti-imperialist movement at the time.
This second part has statements regarding the issues faced by young workers, women, workers in the agricultural sector and other areas.
Notable are the many statements of solidarity with workers and peoples languishing under military, fascist dictatorships in countries like Spain, Greece, Brazil and Argentina at the time. With the rise of a serious far right threat globally in the last few years, these are particularly haunting.
(Click on scans to enlarge)
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.
All of these posts (as well as posts made to date) will be listed on the page: Vintage Communist/Socialist Leaflets (which is still being updated with past posts).
If you have any public, vintage leaflets or booklets you would like to contribute to this project please contact us via theleftchapter@outlook.com
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