Statement of the XXVI Congress םכ איק INTERNATIONAL WORKERS ASSOCIATION IWA

On the 2nd – 4th December 2016 there was a well attended congress of the IWA held in 
Warsaw, Poland whereupon it was resolved to reaffirm the aims, tactics and principles held 
by the IWA and to commit to strengthening and growing the international. ---- The congress 
has approved the creation of workplace organizer training and strategy for workplace 
activities groups. It was also decided to organize promotional events throughout the world 
to facilitate the dissemination of our ideas and encourage workers to join our ranks ---- 
The congress also saw a number of new affiliations and, unfortunately, disaffiliations. 
---- The CNT, FAU and USI have been disaffiliated as a result of a conscious disregard for 
process, statutes and dues of the IWA. The divisive and destructive attempts by of the 
CNT’s Confederal Committee in complicity with FAU and USI is nothing more than an attack 
on the very principles, tactics and aims of the IWA and anarchosyndicalism.

We denounce their attempts at appropriating the IWA’s name and creating a parallel 
organization to the IWA in the strongest terms possible.

We recognize the conflict within the CNT. We received declarations of support addressed to 
the congress by about 40 local unions from Spain (both current and former members of the 
CNT), and the congress was also attended by a number of observers from these and other 
unions who are concerned with developments within their organizations.

We remain in solidarity with one another and welcome those who are organising and fighting 
against exploitation to join us.

Adopted by the Congress, December 4, 2016