Concern No. 5: Promotion of trade union and other democratic rights of the working class

Preambular part

Working people everywhere are sentenced to a life of insecurity and, for the great majority, deprivation, even as they create the wealth for today's globalised, volatile and increasingly crisis-ridden capitalism. Under imperialist globalisation, workers worldwide have been facing determined attacks on their rights and living standards over the last three decades. Now, a global economic recession is unfolding from the heart of capitalism in the USA. Working people everywhere face the reality of all out efforts to restrict and cut real wages, social welfare benefits, and democratic rights, as the capitalists desperately fight for maximum profits amid the ever-deepening crisis of overproduction.

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