English Vocabulary

world unit?

Fugendichter

User since 2008
Posts: 588

20 Sept. 2009

The today's lessons's headline was not translated and I wonder what it means:

"Workers of the world unite"

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AhQ ['a: kiu]
User since 2006
Posts: 2715
21 Sept. 2009

Workers from all over the world could struggle together, join their forces to make it with the current lack of jobs, to resist to their exploitation by the capitalists.
A bit less than a century ago workers of Eastern European countries united in a communist move.
Half a century ago laborers of different countries saw their unions uniting in The International Trade Union Confederation, the world's largest trade union federation.

In the headline you mentioned, Gwendo, I think "unite" is an intransitive verb meaning "come together, join, meet with each other".
Workers from all over the world could struggle together, join their forces to make it with the current lack of jobs, to resist to their exploitation by the capitalists. A bit less than a century ago workers of Eastern European countries united in a communist move. Half a century ago laborers of different countries saw their unions uniting in The International Trade Union Confederation, the world's largest trade union federation. In the headline you mentioned, Gwendo, I think "unite" is an intransitive verb meaning "come together, join, meet with each other".
Fugendichter
User since 2008
Posts: 588
4 Oct. 2009

Thank you Sandy A., I obviously was wrong presuming "unite" to be a noun.
(CW)
Thank you Sandy A., I obviously was wrong presuming "unite" to be a noun. (CW)

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