STUC delegates demonstrated their tradition of international solidarity on Tuesday, with policies of support for progressive forces in Ecuador, Malawi, Colombia, Myanmar, Iran, Iraq, Palestine and Zimbabwe.
Delegates honoured their predecessors by sending 90th birthday greetings to Nelson Mandela and remembering the Scottish International Brigaders of the Spanish Civil War.
Congress called on the Westminster government to stop military aid to Colombia and voiced support for the Justice for Colombia campaign to help stop the imprisonment, torture and murder of trade unionists.
The STUC will also press Scottish-based companies and union pension funds who have ties with Myanmar to withdraw investment.
"Burma today is nothing less than a killing field," said UNISON delegate Hamid Rashid.
"The regime has implemented the most repressive anti-trade union laws on earth."
The STUC agreed on a broad-based campaign against war on Iran and to support Iranian trade unionists.
North Lanarkshire delegate Tommy Brennan said: "There can be just wars in certain rare circumstances, but the war in Iraq did not meet these criteria and war on Iran would be exactly the same.
"The STUC must be clear - never again will our country go to war on a parcel of lies and deceit."
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