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Among the larger national centers in the world are the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations in the USA, the Canadian Labour Congress, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Britain, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the Dutch FNV, the Norwegian and Swedish LO, the German DGB , the French CGT and CFDT , the Italian CISL, the Korean Congress of Trade Unions , and so on.

Most national trade union centers are now members of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions though some, particularly in countries where independent trade unions are not tolerated, belong to the formerly- StalinistStalinism is a term for a brand of political theory and the political and economic system implemented by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union. Leon Trotsky described the system as totalitarian and this description has become widely used by critics of Stalini World Federation of Trade UnionsThe World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) is composed of associated and affiliated trade unions representing the collective interests of about 130 million workers from 120 countries worldwide. The WFTU therefore proclaims its prime objective is to contr.