On Sunday, June 24, a delegation of WFTU, PAME, FISE and local unions visited the migrant workers of the strawberry fields of Manolada.
The workers, who live under very difficult conditions, received material solidarity, necessary items and spoke with the delegation about how to organize against the exploitation by the big farmers of the area.
PAME reconfirmed its steady solidarity and support with migrant workers and will hold new initiatives for the betterment of their lives. Continue reading
21 June 2018
The message of the World Teachers Union (FISE) to the Mexican government is hesitant among teachers and the trade union movement in general echoes of oppression and terrorism to which teachers and trade union leaders are exposed in Mexico; Recently, the Mexican authority has been Confronting the peaceful protests and demonstrations of teachers by shooting at demonstrators, arresting and imprisoning them, leading to physical torture, which is rejected by international laws.
What is happening in Mexico is not new; In the past three years, a number of our fellow teachers have been killed, in open and clear contravention of the most basic human rights, for the reason that they are demanding their legitimate trade union rights.
Deploring these anti-human rights practices, the World Federation of Teachers (Fise) declares its full solidarity with Mexican colleagues and tightens their hands, and awaits teachers ‘ unions and educators belonging to our Union, solidarity with teachers in Mexico, and demands the government To stop these repressive and illegal practices, to release the arrested comrades and to fulfil the legitimate demands of the teachers.
President of the World Teachers Union (fise) Dr. Hasan Ismail
Announcement For The International Day Of Refugees 20th June
The sharpening of the competitions for business group profits, the exploitation and the imperialist interventions have resulted in millions of uprooted and persecuted people around the world, the increase in 2018 of arrivals of refugees in our country. Thousands of them are trapped under outrageous conditions, stacked in the Reception and Identification Centers.
The SYRIZA-ANEL government, with the support of the other parties, too, aiming at the so-called geostrategic upgrading, engages our country in dangerous imperialist plans where it is actively participating, as well as in their crimes against the peoples, transforming the country into a NATO-US-EU military camp-base.
With the EU’s decisions, which the Greek government also co-signs, the rights of the refugees are being violated, the situation is being aggravated and they lead to an increase in numbers and in despairing for the trapped people who managed to escape from their bombs, from the heat of the war.
In this direction, also, was recently the incorporation by the government the of EU directives on geographic constraints and the pause of the “material reception conditions” for those who violate it, for deportations to be made even before the administrative courts.
Similarly, in other EU Member States, new measures are being taken against refugees and immigrants. From the stopcocks of the business groups and their governments, they will only pass through those who are needed as cheap working force. The victims of their barbaric policy will be dealt with by enforcing repression even for children and cases of family reunification, on-site refoulements, with fences and closed ports.
PAME expresses its solidarity and substantial support for refugees, it demands that they be transported from the islands to the mainland of Greece, and there, to submit an asylum application with the prospect of their direct release and safe transportation to the countries of their actual destination.
It calls on refugees and immigrants to organize and jointly fight together with the Greek workers against exploiters, imperialist associations and their governments, those responsible for their uprooting and the anti-workers barbarism in our country. It calls in a joint struggle for work with rights, against imperialist wars and interventions. For a world without exploitation, wars, refugees.
WE DEMAND:
