Kim Scipes, author of "AFL-CIO's Secret War against Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage?" (Lexington Books, 2010 hard back, 2011 paper back, will be speaking in Toronto on April 21 at a public forum.
The argument is that we need to tie together our understandings of US Empire, US Capitalism and Global Climate Change; instead of only focusing on one or two factors, we need to integrate and include all three. By not doing this, much of what the...
Examines AFL-CIO foreign policy program from beginnings during the Mexican Revolution to 2007. Provides case studies of operations in Chile (early 1970s), the Philippines (mid-to-late 1980s), and Venezuela (early 2000s). Includes efforts by labo...
An excellent, in-depth analysis of the situation in Venezuela, including an excellent analysis of Hugo Chavez and the political forces he has stimulated.
I am a long-time activist who got politicized fighting racism and white supremacy while on active... more
I am a long-time activist who got politicized fighting racism and white supremacy while on active duty in the US Marine Corps (1969-73). Subsequently a printer, high school teacher and office worker, I now teach sociology at Purdue University North Central in Westville, Indiana, although I live in Chicago. I am a long-time labor activist, working on both domestic and global labor issues, and have long fought the AFL-CIO's foreign policy program. I published AFL-CIO's SECRET WAR ON DEVELOPING COUNTRY WORKERS: SOLIDARITY OR SABOTAGE? (Lanham, MD, 2010), and details and 20% discount can be accessed at http://faculty.pnc.edu/kscipes/book.htm. I also have published a major study on the KMU Labor Center of the Philippines in 1996: KMU: BUILDING GENUINE TRADE UNIONISM IN THE PHILIPPINES, 1980-1994 (Quezon City, Metro Manila: New Day Publishers).
