Very cool.
Esperanto next, right?
IWW in Gujarati
Jack wrote:
Serge Forward wrote:
The website of Leicestershire IWW has now got a page in GujaratiWhy not in Gaelic?
Because a Gaelic page would be totally useless in Leicester. Gujarati is the second most widely spoken language in the city, whereas there are probably more... er... Esperanto speakers than Gaelic speakers in Leicester.
But I'm sure that was just a piss take, Jack. So why did I bother to respond? Because I'm just bloody OCD that's why!
Definitely.
And the inclusion of further languages would probably be useful as well: has anyone looked into, for example, eastern european versions of anarcho-union stuff? Bearing in mind that there will soon be further immigration to britian (Romania & Bulgaria is it? excuse my ignorance), it would be good if we could welcome some foreign workers with something familiar and inclusive
...synf x
jason wrote:
Why's there a big influx of Indian-Africans to the UK? (I mean I can understand if there's unrest in E. Africa, but the UK bit...)
Idi Amin expelled them in the 70s if I remember right, they had British Citizenship, or were given it, so they came here. They'd been moved to Africa (originally as personal servants I think) a long time before.
yeah sounds good given recent polish political history, with the whole "solidarity" thing overthrowing soviet rule. Then replacing it with free-market capitalism. Which is shite in one way, and in another illustrates the case for removal of leadership/vanguardism pretty well.
...synf x
Be good to get hold of the Serbian stuff.
Seems to me, that groups could select the main non-English language spoken in their locality and get at least the membership form plus basic info translated. If you don't know anyone who'll do the translating gratis, there are a number of internet translation services that'll do this fairly cheaply.
That way, we can build up our foreign language materials in advance.
Meanwhile, if anyone wants an English version of the Gujarati flyer to give to translators, PM me with an email address and I'll email it to you in Word and pdf.
McCormick wrote:
There's presently a push on to get IWW stuff translated into Polish (for a start). Should have all the basics (application forms, introductions to the IWW etc.) within a couple of weeks. Hopefully some other Eastern European languages to follow.
In the late 90s there was a Polish IWW branch set up (mainly leftists but a few anarchos involved). If no one in the IWW has contact with them, I can get in touch with some of the anarchos.
Regards,
Martin
Preamble:
Bulgarian: http://www.iww.org/bg;
Greek: http://www.iww.org/el;
Polish: http://www.iww.org/pl;
Russian: http://www.iww.org/ru;
Serbian: http://www.iww.org/sr;
Finnish: http://www.iww.org/fi;
Swedish: http://www.iww.org/sv;
Japanese?: http://www.iww.org/zh-hans;
Note that some of these also have other info: the serbian one appears to have the "Intro to the IWW" written by GR.
The website of Leicestershire IWW has now got a page in Gujarati (cos there's a lot of Gujarati speakers in Leicester). So if you know any Gujarati speakers who read the language, send them to www.leicestershire-iww.org.uk then click on the Gujarati page link.