INFOR October 2024: "Our Fight against an Inhuman Policy"
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At a time when, in Europe, America and Asia, the rise and attempts by the far right to come to power are being decried, in East, Central and West Africa, to name but a few, we are experiencing totalitarian, corrupt and repressive regimes.
Unfortunately, the rise of extremes comes at the expense of the poorest. We appropriate power, wealth, economic power. We plunder natural resources for our own needs or desires to the detriment of the local people.
The political landscape is no longer shaped by the traditional poles of «left vs. right», «socialism vs. capitalism», or «communism vs. fascism». It has instead been replaced by a representation of the extreme center dynamic: «center vs. extremes». This amounts to erasing what substantially differentiates the left from the right in favor of a neutral perspective of politics where any social problem finds its technical solution.
The real failure is that of capitalist democracy or the «market economy» that promised prosperity for all at the end of the last millennium. Neoliberalism, an ultra-sophisticated version of the capitalist mode of accumulation and whose triumphant impetus has been called «globalization», has brought us to the brink of the disaster. Whether we take it from the perspective of inequality, precariousness, poverty, or the environment, we come to the conclusion of a resounding failure of our economic model.
The political consequences are immense. In both the United States and Europe, people regurgitate neoliberal policies by voting for xenophobic, ultranationalist or ultraconservative political parties. They are increasingly supporting megalomaniac buffoons like Donald Trump because it is probably less humiliating for a dispossessed citizen to line up behind a disoriented rebel than to give in once again to the blackmail of the so-called «least bad» option put forward by the neoliberal establishment. Should we continue to put up with the alternation in government between left-wing neoliberals and right-wing neoliberals, as we have seen for the past thirty years, despite the civilizational dead-end to which these policies have led us?
There is only one option left: To continue to work for radical and democratic transformations on the ground, to build social justice in an economy that values life, where every person is worth more than all the gold in the world. This is what WMCW members have done and continue to do around the world to enable every person to regain their dignity and nurture the hope of another possible world!
Louise Paré, WMCW International Council
Message from the World Movement of Christian Workers (WMCW) on the World Day for Decent Work 2024
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The promotion of social justice and an economy for life to which our movement is committed for the next 4 years is only possible if every man and woman has access to decent work, i.e. a job, appropriate remuneration (in cash or in kind), safety at work and healthy working conditions. Unfortunately, trends in the current global political situation seem intent on wiping out the few gains and small steps made so far in terms of personal rights and freedoms. The spectacular rise to power of extreme right-wing parties poses an unprecedented threat to the values of democracy, the rule of law, equality and fairness.
On the celebration of the World Day for Decent Work on October 7, 2024, we join the movements of Europe in their declaration against the rise to power of extreme right-wing parties and their effects on the enjoyment of personal rights and decent work.
WMCW International Council Meeting 2024
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From July 12 to 16, 2024, members of the MMTC International Council met in Murcia, Spain, for their annual meeting. Apart from Co-Chairman Tarcisio Njue Kithinji, who was unable to obtain a visa to travel to Spain, all other members were present. As usual, the Council was preceded by the preparatory meeting of the Bureau.
The opening session was attended and addressed by a number of personalities, including the representative of the local union working for health and safety at work, and HOAC's senior executives at both national and local level.
In their work, the councilors addressed a number of points, notably the life of the movements in the regions, the programming of activities, the finances at the service of projects, regional seminars, spiritual accompaniment, not forgetting the evaluation of the progress of activities in the past period.
Photos of the highlights of the meeting are attached.
Photo 1: Bureau members in Murcia
INFOR July 2024: "Health and Security at Work"
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The four-year plan of the World Movement of Christian Workers (WMCW) is based on the theme of Social Justice in an Economy for Life. We have shared the lives of workers in our countries and regions. Using the See-Judge-Act method, we analysed the causes of the reported situations and decided on actions to be taken both globally and at the local movement level.
We discovered that the main cause of the inhumane situations experienced by workers around the world is the same: the unbridled pursuit of profit for a few. This race for money is not only devastating for human beings, but it also destroys the environment and plunders Mother Earth. The future of humanity is at stake.
This new issue of INFOR, following the previous one on precarious work, focuses on safety at work and its impact on the physical and mental health of the men and women in our movements.
