ILPS Chairperson
- Joint call to commemorate Fukushima disaster and demand the end of using nuclear power
- Message of solidarity and gratitude for the launch of Selected Works
- Message in honor of Amancio Samuel Villatoro, martyr and hero of the proletariat and people
- Message of solidarity to Migrante Australia on the occasion of its 2nd General Assembly
- Message of solidarity to Asia-Wide Campaign on 15th Meeting of AWC Campaign Coordinating Body
Highlights: 4th International Assembly
Build a bright future! Mobilize the people to resist exploitation and oppression amidst the protracted global depression, state terrorism and wars of aggression!
7 - 9 July 2011, Philippines
Assemblies First Assembly (2001) FIA Resolutions
First Assembly, 2001
Second Assembly, 2004
Third Assembly, 2008
Fourth Assembly, 2011
FIA Resolutions
Final Resolution for Workshop 15
Presented at the Workshop of Conerns of the ILPS First International Assembly
For Approval of the International Coordinating Committe
25-27 May 2001
Zutphen, The Netherlands
Rights and welfare of homeless people, refugees and migrant workers displaced by imperialism
We, participants coming from different countries such as Canada, Hong Kong, Italy, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Turkey and the USA gathered in this workshop on “Migrants, Refugees and Displaced Persons” of the First International Activity of the International League of People's Struggles in The Netherlands on May 25-27, 2001, unite on the following:-
WHEREAS, almost 90 million people are living outside their country of birth as immigrants, migrant workers, political refugees and homeless people brought about by economic and political problems and conflicts in their respective countries and there is an increasing trend of forced migration and consequently higher forms of exploitation. Most of these persons are found in oppressed nations;
Final Resloution for Workshop 14
Approved by the Plenary of the ILPS First International Assembly
25-27 May 2001
Zutphen, The Netherlands
Freedom for political prisoners and prisoners of war and justice for victims of human rights violations
In most countries, basic human rights of the toiling masses and the oppressed are not fully enjoyed nor protected. The vast majority of the world's humanity are denied of their basic civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights, and are effectively marginalized from political processes established for and dominated by the interests of imperialism and its landlord-big business cohorts. Gross violations of human rights and international humanitarian law are committed in the course of the implementation of the policies of imperialist globalization.
The accumulation of capital in optimizing profits is pushing states to be more and more repressive and the people's rights are more and more suppressed. As the people resist the impositions of imperialism, state apparatuses -- the courts, laws, jails, military -- are all used to violate, if not completely deny with impunity, the basic human rights of the people. In spite of their being signatories to various human rights instrumentalities and international humanitarian laws, states are able to circumvent provisions of such instruments by putting forward notions of national security, state of emergency, and/or economic development. In fact, the worst and biggest violator of human rights in the world -- the United States -- declares itself as the biggest democracy and protector and defender of human rights. In actuality, the US holds more people in prison than any other country – two (2) million and 150 political prisoners.
Final Resolution for Workshop 13
Approved by the Plenary of the ILPS First International Assembly
25-27 May 2001
Zutphen, The Netherlands
Arts and culture and the free flow of information in the service of the people, and in defense of the rights of artists, creative writers, journalists and other cultural workers
Culture, the arts, and the mass media are arenas of intense struggle between the forces of progress and social liberation and reaction. Monopoly capital and the ruling elites in each country impose their dominance in culture through the control of media, the flow of information and the institutions of culture and the arts by means of which they prop up backward, feudal, individualist, patriarchal and racist cultures.
The unrelenting role of the market under the polices of imperialist globalization has intensified this domination through the commodification of the arts and culture, the global monopoly of media, and the global homogenization of culture by multinational corporations. This has resulted in the rapid erosion of national and indigenous cultures. Furthermore, particular globalist policies such as privatization and liberalization enforced by the WTO exacerbates this situation by opening up media, culture and the arts to greater monopoly capitalist trade and investment.
Final Resolution for Workshop 12
Approved by the Plenary of the ILPS First International Assembly
25-27 May 2001
Zutphen, The Netherlands
Science and technology for the people, environmental protection and the right to healthy food and water
Throughout the ages, human societies have created the bases of survival, sustenance and advancement using natural resources through science and technology. The main interest of these societies' dominant economic and political force dictates the allocation and use of resources and, thus, shapes the development process.
The advent of private property, gender-based discrimination, stratification of society into classes and castes, and its transformation into monopoly capitalism has intensified the above dynamic into one that sacrifices people, environment, science and technology, in favor of profit. Monopoly capitalism has allowed exploitative classes to arrogate unto themselves control over ownership, utilization and appropriation of natural resources on a worldwide scale through technology.
Final Resolution for Workshop 11
Approved by the Plenary of the ILPS First International Assembly
25-27 May 2001
Zutphen, The Netherlands
Right of people to health care and the rights of health workers
The turn of the millennium has witnessed a worsening global health crisis. New diseases such as AIDS, Ebola, several kinds of hepatitis have emerged over the past 20 years, while other old infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, cholera, malaria and diphtheria are ironically coming back worldwide, despite advances in modern technology.
Health care, long ago acclaimed a basic human right, has become increasingly inaccessible to millions of people. More than ever before, world health is determined by the politics of monopoly capitalism that has turned it from a social service into a lucrative source of superprofits. In the guise of “globalization”, people's health has been turned into an opportunity to dump excess production of drugs and health supplies, to absorb excess capital in new health products and technologies, and take over social health systems being privatized. This appears to be an intensified phase of monopoly capitalist expansion, exploitation and oppression. It is brought about by the chronic global overproduction in all types of goods that is leading to the further destruction of productive forces in the form of production cut downs, mass layoffs and bankruptcies.
Final Resolution for Workshop 10
Approved by the Plenary of the ILPS First International Assembly
25-27 May 2001
Zutphen, The Netherlands
Rights of teachers, resesarchers and other education personnel and the struggle against ideas and research directed against the people
Imperialist globalization has resulted in untold suffering for billions of people throughout the world. The imposition of its neoliberal policies of privatization, deregulation, trade liberalization and austerity have reaped huge profits for huge multinationals banks and corporations while the world economy is racked by crises, the gap between rich and poor countries to grow, hundreds of millions are thrown into unemployment, and environmental destruction proceeds unabated. Imperialist globalization has intensified the oppression of women, racism, and discrimination against migrants.
Imperialist globalization has had a devastating impact on education all over the world. Drastic cuts in public spending for education have become the norm. Teachers, researchers, and other education personnel suffer deteriorating standards of living as salaries fail to keep up with rising costs. Large numbers are being laid off as governments close down schools and universities deemed inefficient. As education becomes the flashpoint for popular struggles, schools and universities are increasingly subjected to state repression.
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- 9 Rights of indigenous peoples, national minorities and nationalities for self-determination and decolonization
- 8 Youth on education and employment
- 7 The cause of women's liberation and the rights of women against sexual discrimination, exploitation and violence
- 6 Agrarian reform and the rights of peasants, farm workers and fisherfolk
