CUPE’s 2023-2024 International Solidarity Report provides a snapshot of urgent global struggles and documents our union’s efforts to build worker-to-worker solidarity around the world. This year has reminded us in so many ways that international solidarity is critically important.
On every continent across the globe, communities are mobilizing for democracy, justice, peace, self-determination and liberation. This report highlights how workers are struggling and resisting in Bangladesh, Burma, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, Palestine, the Philippines and South Korea.
We are concerned about the safety and security of our partners and are inspired by their courage and determination. The past year has been terrifying in its intensity and violence. It has also laid bare the real motivations of Western nations that claim to support human rights and international law while promoting military conflict, resource extraction and anti-worker policies.
CUPE members continue to organize alongside our partners for peace and justice, for an end to war and against unwanted foreign intervention. For more than 60 years, we have backed workers and social movements fighting for their rights and defending vital services. Those struggles continue to this day.
There is strength in solidarity. We hope you read this report and join us in building our power with workers around the world. Together, we will overcome our collective challenges and build a better world.