The UGT of Catalonia is a trade union organization with over 135 years of history and we are affiliated with the UGT of Spain. We are one of the major trade union in Catalonia as well as in the Spanish state, with 1 million members in our organization nationwide.
From the UGT, we want to demonstrate our support and solidarity with Ukrainian workers as well as with the entire Ukrainian people being here in person during this event.
In Catalonia, we have called on our members to attend the demonstration on February 24th in Barcelona, and we have endorsed the manifesto of the Ukrainian community of Barcelona.
From the outset, we have supported the idea of significant action by the global labor movement in solidarity with the working people and the people of Ukraine on the second anniversary of the war.
We work for peace, firmly reject and condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. We are convinced that the right of people to defend themselves from external aggression is an inalienable natural right and that all of us here must work to help our fellow union members who are suffering.
We must discuss how we can help them and work together to remove barriers that limit this aid and tie our hands. Even if it means revisiting positions of international unions that may have seemed valid in times of peace but events in recent years have made a review necessary.
If aggressors do not respect international treaties and at the same time we impose limits on the type of aid we can give, we are leaving a wide path for imperialism, barbarism, and fascism to spread throughout the world.
As ugetistes, as union members, being faithful to our tradition of fighting for human rights, freedoms, and democracy, obliges us to make the struggle of the workers of Ukraine for their freedom our own.
LONG LIVE THE WORKING CLASS!!
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