International  solidarity travels both ways. Workers under attack in the United States have received strong support from workers around the world and they have come to the aid of their brothers and sisters when they needed help and support.

Next Monday, as part of the We Are One mobilization on and around April 4, workers and activists in Paris will march to show their solidarity with U.S. workers. Democrats Abroad Paris, the sponsor of the march, says in a statement: “We’re standing together for rights for all workers to bargain for a middle class life, our right to a voice in the political process and the respect that all people deserve.”

Back in the United Staes, the more than 65,000 Wisconsin workers represented by AFSCME Councils 24, 40 and 48 donated nearly $50,000 to an earthquake relief fund established by RENGO, Japan’s trade union confederation on behalf of all AFSCME members nationwide.   

Marty Beil, executive director of the Wisconsin State Employees Union, Council 24, says:

Even as our members are facing great stress from being singled out as scapegoats for our state’s budgetary problems, their true nature shows though. Our members have big hearts. They are committed to serving others, so it is only natural that even now their thoughts and compassion are flowing to the people of Japan.

The Wisconsin workers have also received global support for their struggle against Gov. Scott Walker’s attack on workers and the middle class from the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and Amnesty International. And last month, Wisconsin protestors received two special deliveries from union members in Egypt: a pizza delivery ordered from Cairo and a special message from Kamal Abbas, general coordinator of the independent Egyptian Centre for Trade Unions and Workers Services (CTUWS). Abbas taped the message from a place close to Cairo’s “Liberation Square,” which was the heart of the people’s Revolution in Egypt.

Check out more expressions of global solidarity with U.S. workers here.