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While we sort out a new mailing service our monthly numbers report will be on hold. When the transition is complete we’ll return to regular reports on the mailing lists and social media accounts.

This month’s report does not contain any information regarding the mailing lists as we have changed the structure of the language segments and at the same are again in the process of changing service providers.

The first number next to each item is the current total as of today; the second number is the total as of the last report. Where one number is provided it means that there has been no change since our last report. (more…)

It’s May Day and we’d like to take this opportunity to express our solidarity with workers everywhere who are fighting for their rights, for equality, social justice and peace.

LabourStart today will be filled with news links from all around the world and we thank our volunteer correspondents for making that happen.

This year, we were approached by worker activists from Iran and Egypt, asking us for May Day video messages.

• The message for the Iranian group ‘Free Them Now’ is now online here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2SW_sXC_Gw
• We are still waiting for the CTUWS in Egypt to send us the link to the video we gave to them.

A very happy May Day to all of you!

In early February we began podcasting on LabourStart.  We were approached by people at the ‘Working Voices’ show, which airs on KPFK FM Los Angeles every Tuesday evening.  They asked us to make a weekly show.  We have done that every week, though not all our shows are picked up by ‘Working Voices’ for broadcast.

So far, we’ve done 13 interviews with trade union leaders and activists at global level and also in Australia, Belarus, Canada, Colombia, Egypt, Iran, Israel / Palestine, Panama, the UK, Ukraine, and the USA.  Of the 13 interviews, six were with women, six were with men, and one was with a man and a woman.  We recorded two additional interviews this week, and have more scheduled for next week.

Listenership is growing week-on-week.  At the moment, the most popular show was our interview with Australia’s Sally McManus.

Two of the interviews were done by LabourStart Canada’s Pat Bulmer, the other 11 by Eric Lee (assisted on one of them by our intern, David).

If you have any ideas for interviews, please do pass them on.

This blog hasn’t been updated for the last five months (except for occasional updates on the numbers — thanks Derek!).  So one of our New Year’s Resolutions for 2024 is to fix that.  Over the next few days, we’ll do summaries of the major things that have been happening at LabourStart in the last few months — and from now on, we’ll update this blog on a much more regular basis.

The first number next to each item is the current total as of today; the second number is the total as of the first day of September. Where one number is provided it means that there has been no change since our last report.

Lists or accounts that have shrunk are in italics.  Lists or accounts which experienced growth are in bold.

 

MAILING LISTS:

The top 10:

English: 84014-83860

French: 7642-7586

German: 5957

Spanish: 5979-5550

Turkish: 4426

Korean: 3321-3320

Italian: 3117-3114

Russian: 2702

Norwegian: 2232-2196

Romanian:  1771

Dutch: 1536-1534

 

The others:

Arabic:  821

Belarusian:  293

Bulgarian: 17

Chinese: 902

Creole:  11

Czech: 61

Danish: 93

Esperanto: 190-188

Farsi:  207

Finnish:  476-475

Georgian:  156

Greek: 54

Hebrew:  295

Hindi:  80

Hungarian:  186

Indonesian:  460

Japanese: 398

Lithuanian:  63

Malaysian: 21

Polish: 970

Portuguese: 1292

Punjabi:  2

Sinhalese: 1

Slovakian: 15

Swedish: 950

Tagalog: 183

Thai:  152

Ukrainian: 493

Vietnamese:  21

Internal:

Executive and Interns:  14

LabourStart Correspondents:  677-672

LabourStart Translators:  97-91

Africa Caucus:  63

Media Contacts: 57

 

FLICKR:

Members:  840-839

Photos:  10233-10216

 

TELEGRAM:

LabourStart channel:  126-124

 

FACEBOOK PAGES/GROUPS:

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers.  Authority for the LabourStart Brasil page has been devolved to a volunteer in Brazil.

LabourStart.org page likes:  14071-13836

Global Labour News and Information: 9094-9026

LabourStart UK likes:  unavailable-2137

LabourStart Francophone: 607 (last post February 2021)

LabourStart-de: unavailable-500

LabourStart Brasil:  unavailable-552

LabourStart Turkce:  unavailable-2116

LabourStart TV likes: 457-443

LabourStart TV follows:  unavailable-454

LabourStart Vostok:  unavailable-119

LabourStart Esperanto:  unavailable-18

LabourStart Canada-English: 17 (new)

LabourStart Nepal:  7 (last post April 2017)

LabourStart Israel: CLOSED (last post 2018)

 

LINKEDIN:

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers.

Group: 2617-2603

Page: 274-263

 

X (TWITTER as-was):

A few months ago the Portuguese, Spanish and Canada-EN accounts were  devolved to volunteers in Brazil, Spain and Canada.  As a result changes to tweet frequency and format have been introduced.  This may have had an effect on our numbers.

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers for these accounts.

We experienced some decline in accounts that usually experience slow growth.  This may be the result of trade unionists closing their Twitter accounts and moving to other platforms (such as Mastodon).

 

Global English: 40123-40217

Canada English: 24923-23054

Global Portuguese: 10754-10828

Global Spanish: 10614-10601

Australia: 10342-10416

USA: 5103-5133

Canada French: 3325-3157

Russian: 47-48

Hebrew:  50 (last tweet 02-2021)

Italian: 508 (last tweet 11-2021)

Swedish: 329-330 (last tweet 2016)

Indonesia: 341 (last tweet 2015)

French: 224 (last tweet 2018)

German: 120 (last tweet 2018)

Japanese: 21 (last tweet 2012)

Dutch: 12 (last tweet April 2012)

Arabic: 7 (last tweet May 2012)

South Asia (English): 28-27 Placeholder and not yet active.

 

 

The first number next to each item is the current total as of today; the second number is the total as of the first day of August. Where one number is provided it means that there has been no change since last month.

Lists or accounts that have shrunk are in italics.  Lists or accounts which experienced growth are in bold.

It has been a slow summer campaigns-wise and so our lists have not grown a great deal.

 

MAILING LISTS:

The top 10:

English: 83860-83714

French: 7586

German: 5957

Spanish: 5550

Turkish: 4426-4412

Korean: 3320

Italian: 3114-3110

Russian: 2702

Norwegian: 2196-2193

Romanian:  1771

Dutch: 1534

The others:

Arabic:  821

Belarusian:  293

Bulgarian: 17

Chinese: 902-901

Creole:  11

Czech: 61

Danish: 93

Esperanto: 188

Farsi:  207

Finnish:  475

Georgian:  156

Greek: 54

Hebrew:  295

Hindi:  80

Hungarian:  186-183

Indonesian:  460

Japanese: 398

Lithuanian:  63

Malaysian: 21

Polish: 970

Portuguese: 1292-1291

Punjabi:  2

Sinhalese: 1

Slovakian: 15

Swedish: 950

Tagalog: 183

Thai:  152

Ukrainian: 493

Vietnamese:  21

Internal:

Executive and Interns:  12

LabourStart Correspondents:  672-669

LabourStart Translators:  91

Africa Caucus:  63

Media Contacts: 51

 

FLICKR:

Members:  839

Photos:  10216-10211

 

TELEGRAM:

LabourStart channel:  124-127

 

FACEBOOK PAGES/GROUPS:

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers.  Authority for the LabourStart Brasil page has been devolved to a volunteer in Brazil.

LabourStart.org page likes:  13836

Global Labour News and Information: 9026-8968

LabourStart UK likes:  unavailable-2137

LabourStart Francophone: 607 (last post February 2021)

LabourStart-de: unavailable-500

LabourStart Brasil:  unavailable-552

LabourStart Turkce:  unavailable-2116

LabourStart TV likes: 457-443

LabourStart TV follows:  unavailable-454

LabourStart Vostok:  unavailable-119

LabourStart Esperanto:  unavailable-18

LabourStart Nepal:  7 (last post April 2017)

LabourStart Israel: CLOSED (last post 2018)

 

LINKEDIN:

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers.

Group: 2603

Page: 263

 

X (TWITTER as-was):

A few months ago the Portuguese, Spanish and Canada-EN accounts were  devolved to volunteers in Brazil, Spain and Canada.  As a result changes to tweet frequency and format have been introduced.  This may have had an effect on our numbers.

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers for these accounts.

We experienced some decline in accounts that usually experience slow growth.  This may be the result of trade unionists closing their Twitter accounts and moving to other platforms (such as Mastodon).

 

Global English: 40217-40470

Canada English: 23054-23357

Global Portuguese: 10828-10986

Global Spanish: 106701-10738

Australia: 10416-10588

USA: 5133-5206

Canada French: 3157-3372

Russian: 48-47

Hebrew:  50-48 (last tweet 02-2021)

Italian: 508 (last tweet 11-2021)

Swedish: 330-335 (last tweet 2016)

Indonesia: 341 (last tweet 2015)

French: 224 (last tweet 2018)

German: 120 (last tweet 2018)

Japanese: 21 (last tweet 2012)

Dutch: 12 (last tweet April 2012)

Arabic: 7 (last tweet May 2012)

South Asia (English): 27 Placeholder and not yet active.

 

 

This year’s winner of the LabourStart award for working class solidarity is Sugar on the Weaver’s Chair.

You can learn more about this impressive film HERE.

More information about CLiFF can be found HERE.

Our thanks to CLiFF for allowing LabourStart to be involved in their very impressive across-Canada film festival.

If you are aware of a labour film festival anywhere around the world that LabourStart can assist with please contact us.

The first number next to each item is the current total as of today; the second number is the total as of the first day of last month.  Where one number is provided it means that there has been no change since last month.

Lists or accounts that have shrunk are in italics.  Lists or accounts which experienced growth are in bold.

 

Mailing Lists:

The top 10:

English: 74055-73493

French: 7483-7457

German: 5796

Spanish: 5498-5428

Turkish: 4169-4161

Korean: 3311-3308

Italian: 3088-3074

Russian: 2686-2668

Norwegian: 2140-2121

Romanian:  1771

Dutch: 1476

 

The others:

Arabic:  821

Belarusian:  288

Bulgarian: 17

Chinese: 899

Creole:  11

Czech: 60-63

Danish: 92

Esperanto: 180-178

Farsi:  207

Finnish:  465

Georgian:  135

Greek: 54

Hebrew:  293-289

Hindi:  80

Hungarian:  178

Indonesian:  460

Japanese: 398-386

Lithuanian:  63

Malaysian: 21

Polish: 842-837

Portuguese: 1287

Punjabi:  2

Sinhalese: 1

Slovakian: 15

Swedish: 947

Tagalog: 159

Thai:  152

Ukrainian: 487-313

Vietnamese:  21

Internal:

Executive and Interns:  12

LabourStart Correspondents:  662

LabourStart Translators:  87

Africa Caucus:  63

 

Flickr:

Members:  837

Photos:  9885-10303 (cull of off-topic photos)

 

Telegram:

LabourStart channel:  120-122

 

Facebook Pages/Groups:

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers.

LabourStart.org page likes:  13577-13553

LabourStart.org page follows: 14499

Global Labour News and Information: 9025-9011

LabourStart UK likes:  page unavailable

LabourStart UK follows:  page unavailable

LabourStart Francophone: 590 (last post February 2021)

LabourStart Brasil:  503-502

LabourStart Turkce:  2102-2101

LabourStart TV likes: 444-443

LabourStart TV follows:  455

LabourStart Israel: CLOSED (last post 2018)

 

LinkedIn:

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers.

Group: 2576-2559

Page: 209-188

 

Twitter:

Sporadic efforts were made to grow the Global English-language, Canadian English-language, Australian, Global Portuguese-language and Global Spanish- feeds.  No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers for other accounts.

The Portuguese-language feed passed the 10,000 followers mark last month.  It is expected that the Spanish-language and Australian feeds will do so before the end of September.

 

Global English: 37743-36978

Canada English: 22073-21291

Portuguese: 10217-9606

Global Spanish: 9918-9097

Australia: 9362-9031

USA: 5441-5453

Canada French: 3113-3109

Russian: 46

Hebrew:  48 (last tweet 02-2021)

Italian: 508-507 (last tweet 11-2021)

Swedish: 335-337 (last tweet 2016)

Indonesia: 350 (last tweet 2015)

French: 226 (last tweet 2018)

German: 120 (last tweet 2018)

Japanese: 21 (last tweet 2012)

Dutch: 12 (last tweet April 2012)

Arabic: 7 (last tweet May 2012)

South Asia (English): 21 NEW and not yet active.

 

 

The first number next to each item is the current total as of today; the second number is the total as of the first day of last month.  Where one number is provided it means that there has been no change since last month.

Lists or accounts that have shrunk are in italics.  Lists or accounts which experienced growth are in bold.

 

Mailing Lists:

The top 10:

English: 73493-73419

French: 7457-7308

German: 5766

Spanish: 5428

Turkish: 4161-4152

Korean: 3308

Italian: 3074-3059

Russian: 2668

Norwegian: 2121-2087

Romanian:  1771

Dutch: 1476-1472

 

The others:

Arabic:  821

Belarusian:  288

Bulgarian: 17

Chinese: 899

Creole:  11

Czech: 63

Danish: 92

Esperanto: 178-173

Farsi:  207

Finnish:  465-453

Georgian:  135

Greek: 54

Hebrew:  289

Hindi:  80

Hungarian:  178

Indonesian:  460

Japanese: 386

Lithuanian:  63

Malaysian: 21

Polish: 837

Portuguese: 1287-1282

Punjabi:  2

Sinhalese: 1

Slovakian: 15

Swedish: 947-945

Tagalog: 159

Thai:  152

Ukrainian: 313-301

Vietnamese:  21

Internal:

Executive and Interns:  12

LabourStart Correspondents:  659

LabourStart Translators:  87

Africa Caucus:  63

 

Flickr:

838 members.

10297-10286 photos.

 

Facebook Pages/Groups:

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers.

LabourStart.org page likes:  13547-13553

LabourStart.org page follows: 14490-14497

Global Labour News and Information: 9013

LabourStart UK likes:  2032-2033

LabourStart UK follows:  2096-2093

LabourStart Francophone: 590 (last post February 2021)

LabourStart Brasil:  502-504

LabourStart Turkce:  2104-2096

LabourStart TV likes: 446-489

LabourStart TV follows:  460

LabourStart Israel: CLOSED (last post 2018)

 

LinkedIn:

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers.

Group: 2545-2552

Page: 123-122

 

Twitter:

Sporadic efforts were made to grow the Global English-language, Canadian English-language, Global Portuguese-language and Global Spanish- feeds.  No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers for other accounts.

Global English: 36427-35097

Canada English: 20951-19990

Portuguese: 9193-8714

Global Spanish: 8940-8269

Australia: 8754-8752

USA: 5481

Canada French: 3098-3102

Russian: 46

Hebrew:  48-47 (last tweet 02-2021)

Italian: 507-438 (last tweet 11-2021)

Swedish: 337 (last tweet 2016)

Indonesia: 350 (last tweet 2015)

French: 226 (last tweet 2018)

German: 120 (last tweet 2018)

Japanese: 21 (last tweet 2012)

Dutch: 12 (last tweet April 2012)

Arabic: 7 (last tweet May 2012)

South Asia (English): 21 NEW and not yet active.