20 years on, LabourStart needs your help

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Twenty years ago, I had a crazy idea.

There was a lot of talk back then about "portal websites" -- and at the time Yahoo was the best known of these.

They started out as search engines, but aimed to become the place where you would start your day on the internet.

Today, Google is probably the best known of these, with its Gmail, its maps, and many other features.

I thought back then, in 1998, that we should try to have something like that for trade unionists. It would include some links to news stories and online campaigns, and maybe some other resources.

And sometime in the early spring of 1998, LabourStart was born.

Twenty years later, I think we can safely say that the idea was not so crazy after all.

We've come a long way since 1998.

Today, we have almost 132,000 subscribers to our mailing lists, which exist in 36 languages.

Almost 900 people have signed up to be volunteer correspondents, and they post news every day, throughout the day, in many languages to the website.

There are over 50 volunteer translators who make sure that our campaigns appear in dozens of languages.

And we've held global solidarity conferences in Toronto, Berlin, Istanbul, London, Hamilton, Washington and Sydney.

What's ahead in the next twenty years?

I expect more of the same -- more news, more languages, more campaigns, more volunteers, more conferences.

Our goal remains what it was in 1998: to build union power and strengthen global labour solidarity.

In the next few months we're going to plan our next global solidarity conference for 2019 and we're going to be laser-focussed on recruiting a new generation of young leaders to take LabourStart forward.

I'd like to ask you to help us with that.

Please make a donation of £20 (US$28 €23) to help us mark this 20th anniversary. Please donate more if you can. And please encourage your union to also support us.

Click here to donate.

Thank you very much!



Eric Lee

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