WORLD WORLDWIDE SOUTH AMERICA COLOMBIA BOGOTA - news journal UPDATE - en) Colombia, Bogota:IWA Plenary in Bogota (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

On June 29-30, over 60 delegates and observers from the IWA participated
in the Plenary which took place in Bogota, Colombia. We were also joined
on line by Chinese anarcho-syndicalists who were invited to observe the
meeting. We thank ULET, our Section in Colombia, for the tremendous
effort in organizing the Plenary and for their very warm hospitality.
---- Prior to the Plenary there was a public discussion with members of
CNT-AIT Spain, ZSP from Poland and ULET from Colombia. The Plenary was
also accompanied by a number of cultural events.

The Plenary dealt with many internal matters such as procedures and
dealing with good practices but also decided to organize some actions
and campaigns. There will be a new, long-term campaign against wage
theft, in addition to the Week Against Unpaid Wages that we have held
over the past few years. Next year there will be an IWA Week of Action
in May where the Sections and Friends can organize a wide variety of
activities.

There were many discussions, including about the need for training on
communications security for all comrades and about safety concerns for
comrades who live in places with especially repressive regimes. As the
IWA expands and make contacts around the globe in new areas, this is an
especially important issue.

A final issue of note was the report from CNT-AIT Spain updating us on
the lawsuits brought against them by the Spanish union from CIT, the
organization which unsuccessfully tried to take over the IWA and
disenfranchise many member organizations and later formed another
international federation. That organization is suing numerous unions of
CNT-AIT for amounts close to one million euros, in an attempt to
bankrupt the CNT-AIT and destroy this anarcho-syndicalist tradition in
Spain. Among the claims in the lawsuits is that workers want to join so
called "CNT"-CIT, but join the CNT-AIT "by accident", which would be
very funny if it wasn't such an insulting thing to say about the
comrades of the CNT-AIT and workers in general. As if our comrades from
the CNT-AIT don't know which organization they are joining and why. They
claim that the CNT-AIT prevents them from growing, which is maybe more a
comment on the fact that the CNT-AIT is growing and perhaps "CNT"-CIT,
not as much as they thought they would. Finally, they claim that the
CNT-AIT cannot be called CNT-AIT because the IWA itself does not exist.
This of course was very amusing for the comrades of the IWA, except the
reality isn't funny at all.

The suits will be in court in the middle of September and we stressed
the need to show our solidarity with CNT-AIT from their "non-existent"
comrades against the vindictive outrages inflicted on them by the
founders of the compromised "CNT"-CIT, so far from the historical
libertarian positions of CNT-AIT.

We thank everyone who participated in the very intensive work of the
Plenary and especially our hosts.

Long Live the IWA!

https://iwa-ait.org/content/iwa-plenary-bogota
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