[fse-esf] Meeting in Lisboa on Labour Network

[Marco Berlinguer]

Hi all,
This is just a remainder about the meeting in Lisboa on Friday at 16.00
about the presentation and the development in the ESF process of the Global
Newtork on Labour launched in Nairobi.
I re-send down here the appeal approoved in the assembly "Labour and
Globalization" held in Nairobi.
I also would like to inform you that a web space of the network has been
already established in the WSF process website. If you like to join it, you
have to go to the webiste www.wsfprocess.net, register yourself and your
organization, and then to look for the group "Labour and Globalization" and
to ask (by the window "participants") to particpate in it.

See you in Lisboa.

Marco



CALL FOR A LABOUR NETWORK IN THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM PROCESS


Neoliberal globalisation implies the most vicious attack on labour in living
memory.

Yet labour has so far had neither the necessary centrality, nor even
visibility, within the WSF process

We propose for this purpose to build a labour network on and in the WSF
process. This network will link different experiences, understandings of and
skills engaged in every place and every aspect of work.

We believe that such a network can help us to:

-	give more centrality and visibility, in this crucial historical
phase, to labour issues and workers´ rights in the WSF process 
-	develop a permanent exchange of experiences, information and
knowledge
-	discuss a new and enlarged understanding of labour, considering not
only productive but also reproductive work; not only formal, but also
informal work
-	strengthen the alliances between unions, movements, intellectual
forces and citizens
-	go beyond defensive, isolated and - for that matter - failing
struggles and find a new transnational capacity for action
-	find common global objectives for such action 
-	confront the question of the meaning of production (what to produce,
how, for whom)
-	map all the different labour actors so as to enlarge the network

Following this assembly, held in Nairobi during the WSF 2007, we propose to
initiate a process for the formation of such a network. 

This document has to be considered as an open one, to be discussed in any
and every interested organization, network, movement, starting from here.

In the next weeks and months our common task will be to establish a
permanent system of communication for the network; to increase the number of
interested and involved actors, to debate and define more precisely the aims
and contents of the network.




Marco Berlinguer
Transform! Italia
E-mail: marco.berlinguer(at)transform.it
Tel. +39 3357121431
Via di S. Ambrogio 4 - 00186 Roma 
www.transform.it