By LEN COOPER
Vice Chairperson
International Coordinating Committee

Dear guests, friends from the diplomatic corps, members of the Philippine Congress, welcome to our conference. We appreciate your attendance and please accept our warmest welcome.

Comrades, delegates, observers, sisters and brothers in struggle, on behalf of the International Coordinating Committee of the ILPS we wish you the warmest greetings of solidarity.

Firstly, I am honored to be entrusted with the task of opening the 4^th International Assembly of the ILPS. It gives me great pride and immense joy to be with you at this somewhat historic event.

Historic it is, for the first ILPS international conference was in 2001, ten years ago. In that time you have built the ILPS as the biggest, most effective, mass anti- imperialist mobilising body in the world.

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