by Peter Waterman
The International Trade Union Confederation issued a statement publicly endorsing the World Social Forum’s Global Day of Action (GDA), January 26, 2008. This is something of a step forward for a 20th – even 19th – century movement. In 1995 the forerunner of the ITUC had expressed outrage at being kept off the governmental platform at the UN’s Social Summit. Continue reading ‘Labour movements, it’s time to catch up’