SPORT 1913 - 2013

Table 1. Full members, continental members, candidate members and applicant members of the CSIT with the country at the end of 2011. Country Full Member Founded Country Member Founded Switzerland SATUS 1874 Algeria FAST 1977 Austria ASKÖ 1892 Belgium FROS 1977 Germany RKB Solidarität 1896 Bulgaria BWSU – Estonia KALEV 1901 Mexico INDET 1986 Finland TUL 1919 Bulgaria BWFS 1990 Ireland NAKAI (AAI) 1922 Cyprus PASEK 1990 Israel HAPOEL 1923 Latvia LTSA 1990 Netherlands NCS 1926 Russia MKSO 1991 France FFST 1926 Russia ROSSIYA 1991 Belgium AFSTB 1927 Sweden RLSU 1) 2000 Denmark DAI 1929 Romania CSE 2002 France FSGT (1908) 1934 Russia ATOMSPORT 2002 Portugal INATEL 1935 Egypt ECSF 1) – Lithuania ZALGIRIS 1944 Palestine PPSF 1) – Brazil SESI 1946 Spain AEDPT 1) – Estonia JOUD 1946 U.A. Emirates GDSA – Italy UISP 1948 Morocco FTMS – Italy ACSI 1960 China CWCIE – Angola UNTA 1960 Italy AICS 1962 Tunisia ONCST 1971 Senegal FSST 1) 1976 N = 40 – 5 = 35 SubContinental Member Joined CSIT Country Candidate Member America COPADET 1993 Congo FNSPT EUR/Balkan BAWS 2002 India WSFI Africa ALSO 2005 Turkey HIS Country Applicant Member India ICSF Iran WOF Slovenia ZZBSS N = 3

All and all, table 1 indicates that the CSIT member organizations have strong European origins. This was the case particularly before the Second World War which has been the most active period in the history of the CSIT. The war and particularly the Nazi period in certain parts of Europe broke down the suc- cess of the worker sport movement. However, the opening of sport for all programs to new partners in and outside of Europe has brought new memberships and a stronger role to the CSIT as a world confederation. About the (sub)continental members, we found that the Confederation of Workers Sport of Pan-America (the COPADET) joined the CSIT in 1993, that is, nine years earlier than the European Balkan Association for Workers Sport (the BAWS) in 2002. The third continen- tal member, the African Labor Sports Organ- isation (the ALSO), was accepted as a CSIT member in 2005. The role of leading figures has been im- portant in building the continental collabora- tion. For example, the former CSIT president Maurice Deveen negotiated the collaboration between Europe and Americas with the INDET president Jorge Conzales Meza in 1991 in con- junction with the International Marathon of the Workers organized by the INDET in Mexi- co City (Meza 2012). As written above, the CO- PADET was established in 1993. The official agreement of collaboration between the CSIT and the COPADET was prepared and signed by president Jorge Conzales Meza and presi- dent of the CSIT Kalevi Olin during the CSIT

1) Excluded in the CSIT Rio de Janeiro Congress in October 2011 because of unpaid membership fees.

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