Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda

The Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda (SAT) is a left Esperanto Association. The term Sennacieca refers to the " nation -less ", " sustain non-national " orientation of the association. It combines left Esperanto speakers of different political and ideological origin, for example, the Social Democrats, Free Thinkers and communists. The SAT has only individual members, but it works with the most organized at national level workers' Esperanto associations.

History

The SAT was founded in 1921 as an organization of workers' Esperanto movement. The most important figure among the founders was Eugène Adam, who was known under the pseudonym Lanti. End of the 20s TV had about 6000 members. As a relatively large international organization with individual membership (as opposed to umbrella organizations, national organizations summarize ) it is unique in the labor movement. The chairman of the design committee, Jacques Schram has, in 2003 the number of members specified with 881. 2006 was 724, the number of paying members

Objectives

The SAT will use the international language Esperanto plan for the class goals of the global workforce and promote the internationalist education of the members and provide appropriate literature. This definition was adopted at the founding congress of the SAT in 1921; it is still valid today. 1928 clarified to the goals by the following words:

Since SAT is not a political party, but only an educational, enlightening and Cultural Organization, the members should have placed in the political and philosophical schools or systems, based on which the various class-conscious workers' parties and trade union movements, understanding and tolerance. Through the comparison of facts and ideas, as well as by free discussion SAT wants to make its members the dogma of political lessons they receive in their respective environments, impossible.

In short, SAT 's goal, through the global application of a rationally thought language to promote the long-term creation of rationally thinking minds that are capable of ideas, theories and trends compare well to properly understand and assess, and therefore capable of are to independently choose the path that they believe to be the most direct or most viable to free her class and uplift humanity to a very high level of civilization and culture.

The SAT is not an organization that works for the spread of Esperanto, but uses Esperanto for their goals.

Structure

The SAT has a sustain non-national structure. The members join directly and not through membership in national organizations.

Decisions of the SAT are taken by theoretical basis Referendum: Any decision of a SAT Congress is valid only after acceptance by a referendum. This provision in the Articles of Association wants a grassroots control. Experience shows, however, that most of Congress decisions will never be subjected to a referendum. The board of the SAT, who leads the association, ie execution committee.

Editor of the monthly magazine Sennaciulo ( " the nations Lose" ) and for many years Secretary-General is Krešimir Barkovic. President of the execution committee is since March 2003 Jaques Schram.

Activity

The SAT publishes the monthly magazine Sennaciulo, published annually, cultural journal Sennacieca Revuo and several books, of which the most important is the Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto ( PIV) is.

Every year it organizes an international congress, which focuses on current social and political issues.