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No Sweat Bericht
Mick Duncan, der in die Kampagne "No Sweat"  http://www.nosweat.org.uk in Großbritannien aktiv ist, der in dem NoSweat Seminar (,organisert mit dem DGB-Bildungswerk, Nord-Süd-Netz, die britische Gewerkschaft GMB, und die Kampagne für Saubere Kleidung zusammen) zusammen mit Gewerkschafter/innen u.a. aus Deutschland, sprechen sollte, wurde die Einreise verweigert. Mick hat ein Einreiseverbot für den nnächstenm 7 Tagen bekommen.
Wir bedanken uns bei allen die Solidarität mit Mick und No Sweat gezeigt haben.
Ein volles Bericht vom Seminar wird es hier auf deutsch morgen (Dienstag) geben: zuerst aber auf Englisch von Michael Rowley:
(von Indymedia UK und No Sweat)
Florence, Friday 8/11/02 17:55
The seminar organised by No Sweat and the Clean Clothes Campaign at the EuropeanSocial? Forum took place from 2:00 to 5:00 this afternoon and was a great success. This despite the British state's determined attempt to stop it by telling the Italian border police that one of the main speakers, No Sweat National Secretary Mick Duncan, was an "undesirable" and should not be allowed to enter the country! (See elsewhere on this site).
The ESF organisers tell us they have no report of anyone else being excluded from Italy.
No Sweat's Mark Sandell and Vicki Morris spoke in Mick's place, alongside trade unionists and anti-sweatshop campaigners from Britain, Germany and the Netherlands.
A lively multi-national debate followed, so much so that one of the people doing the simultaneous translations had to ask everyone to speak more slowly! People's keenness to get involved was evident, and nearly a hundred people from all over Europe signed up to No Sweat.
This keenness has been almost tangible for the past couple of days. People here are desperate to carry on the fight for workers, women and all the exploited against global capital, and to globalise our own movement, even if they are not quite sure how to do it.
This, of course, is where a major cross-border initiative of the European and international left is needed.
The necessity for the labour movement to become as global as its enemy, capital, is clearer now than ever before, and the response to No Sweat's building of links between workers in Britain and those in developing countries was very enthusiastic.
On the bus back to our accommodation yesterday evening, someone shouted, in English, "The workers united will never be defeated!" To my amazement the chant was taken up in Spanish, in Italian...we ended up singing the Internationale in English and French.
Despite having been awake for 42 hours I have rarely felt more awake than when I went to bed that night. Los obreros unidos...Les travailleurs unis...Die Arbeiter/innen vereinigt...The workers united. Not just in Europe, but in Indonesia, Bangladesh, Mexico and throughout the world. What a dream!
Marx and Engels and their few comrades dreamt it 150 years ago, and still we do not know if we will live to see it. But we, the socialists and the workers' movement of the world, are the only ones who can make it happen. For our own sakes we must make it happen. Let us make it happen!
Infos zum Einreiseverbot von Mick Duncan:
bei Indymedia UK http://uk.indymedia.org:8081/front.php3?article_id=45825&group=webcast
bei No Sweat http://www.nosweat.org.uk
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