Inside LabourStart

This is a bit of a record for us.

LabourStart’s ActNOW campaigns are usually translated into 10 or 12 languages, even though we have the capacity to do many more.

The Korea campaign, which is hugely important and popular (rapidly approaching 10,000 supporters) is the first one we’ve done to be translated into more than 20 languages.

In addition to all the “usual suspects”, this campaign appears in some languages that are either new or ones we have rarely used, at least recently, such as Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Tagalog (coming), Portuguese, Polish, Farsi, Turkish, and Dutch.  (I’m now working on getting it into Czech.)  I hope that this week we’ll see this campaign in 22 languages — or more.

In all cases, we have been doing mailings as well, reviving our connection to many hundreds of our subscribers in Polish, Portuguese, Dutch, etc who have not been hearing from us regularly.

Even if some of these lists are quite small, it’s very important that we create the capacity to reach out quickly to trade unionists in so many countries.

I’m enormously appreciative of the work done this time by Andy, Espen, Gisela, Mohammed, Hyunsu, John, Lennon, Catta, Nelson, Andrea, Masha, Mac, Dirk, Molly, Eyup, Assaf, Anka, Ali, Trung, Miles and and Fambisa.