Declaration of the 2008 SAT Congress

The 81st Congress of SAT in Kazanlak (Bulgaria), which convened from the 9th to the 16th of August 2008,

— requests in a letter to the ambassadors of China, Finland, India, Israel, Russia and the United States to Bulgaria that they call upon their respective governments to sign quickly the Ottawa Convention, which bans the use and manufacture of anti-personnel mines,

— notes
– that illegalisation, detention at the border and administrative imprisonment of immigrants, such as they occur throughout the world, violate human rights to free movement and decent living conditions,
– that economic, military, climate change and other pressures that cause involuntary emigration need to be eliminated,
– and commits itself to combat such injustices on the part of governments,

— notes that problems of Earth governance and socio-political problems are inseparable and that their solution requires a dialectical synthesis between ecologism and socialism,

— notes that the present hunger crisis, just like problems of global governance and socio-political problems, cannot be solved through begging and through humanitarian and benevolent activities, but rather by providing horizontal direct mutual aid and by exchanging experiences and ways and means : SAT is one instrument of such mutual relations,

— encourages workers in post-socialist and other areas of the world to hold their heads up and organise on a worldwide scale to combat the capitalist system that continues to oppress them. nach oben

Translation : SATeB (WORKERS’ ESPERANTO MOVEMENT for ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES)