Links
We offer here a selection of links to articles dealing with the AFL-CIO's links to the NED
and efforts by workers to fight against and end this relationship. 2007 New! Defending Labor Rights in Haiti by Ben Terrall From HaitiAnalysis.com "Is COSATU Playing with the Devil? Investigating the AFL-CIO and Its Solidarity Center." by Kim Scipes This article originally appeared in the South African Labour Bulletin, Vol. 30, No. 5, December-January 2007: 15-18. 2006 $449,965 in NED/State Department funding for ACILS 'Solidarity Center' Program with Batay Ouvriye by Jeb Sprague and Joe Emersberger The AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Program and the 2002 Coup in Venezuela: Was the AFL-CIO Involved? by Kim Scipes Worker to Worker Solidarity Committee. Reverse Solidarity: The Reactionary Role of US Labor in Haiti and Venezuela: An Interview with Kim Scipes and Jeb Sprague Flashpoints Radio, June 2006. Online at: http://upsidedownworld.org "Failed Solidarity: The ICFTU, AFL-CIO, ILO, and ORIT in Haiti" by Jeb Sprague Labor Notes, June 2006. Online at: http://labornotes.org/node/230 "A Specter Is Haunting the AFL-CIO's Foreign Policy Program: The Worker to Worker Solidarity Committee" by Kim Scipes MRZine, June 2, 2006. Online at: http://mrzine.monthlyreview "Worker-to-Worker Solidarity Committee to AFL-CIO: Cut All Ties with NED" by Kim Scipes. MRZine, April 29, 2006. Online at: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=10191 "Workers' Rights ARE Human Rights--Not Just in the USA, but around the World" by Kim Scipes. MRZine, January 25, 2006. Online at: http://mrzine.monthlyreview 2005 "The AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center and Haiti" by Jeb Sprague Narco News: November 2005 http://narcosphere.narconews "The AFL Should Stop Attacking and Learn Something: Venezuela's National Workers' Union" By Diana Barahona Counterpunch, October 23, 2005. Online at: http://www.counterpunch.org "AFL-CIO Foreign Policy: Final Report from the Convention" by Kim Scipes. Z Net, August 2, 2005. Online at: www.zmag.org/content/showartic "Revolution and Counter-revolution in Venezuela: Assessing the Role of the AFL-CIO" By Lee Sustar Selves and Others, July 21, 2005. Online at: http://www.selvesandothers.org "Free Labor From the Empire: Breaking the NED-Solidarity Center Connection" by Kim Scipes. MRZine, July 19, 2005. Online at: http://mrzine.monthlyreview "An Unholy Alliance: The AFL-CIO and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in Venezuela" by Kim Scipes. ZNet, July 10, 2005. Online at: www.zmag.org/content/showartic "AFL-CIO Foreign Policy in Venezuela" by Fred Hirsch. ZNet, June 18. Online at: www.zmag.org/content/showartic "Labor Imperialism Redux? The AFL-CIO's Foreign Policy Since 1995" by Kim Scipes. Monthly Review, Vol. 57, No. 1, May 2005. Online at: www.monthlyreview.org/0505scip "AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Leaders Help Develop Bush's Foreign Policy, Target Foreign Unions for Political Control" by Kim Scipes. Labor Notes, March 2005. Online at: www.labornotes.org/archives 2004 "Venezuela: A People Firm Against Empire" by Fred Hirsch. Social Policy, Fall. Online at: www.MLToday.com/Pages/NLiberat "California AFL-CIO Rebukes Labor's National Level Foreign Policy Leaders" by Kim Scipes. Labor Notes, September 2004. Online at: http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?id=6394 "AFL-CIO in Venezuela: Deja Vu All Over Again" by Kim Scipes. Labor Notes, April 2004. "AFL-CIO Refuses to 'Clear the Air' on Foreign Policy, Operations" by Kim Scipes. Labor Notes, February 2004. Online at: www.labornotes.org/archives 2000 "It's Time to Come Clean: Open the AFL-CIO Archives on International Labor Operations" by Kim Scipes. Labor Studies Journal, Vo. 25, No. 2, Summer 2000: 4-25. Online (in English) at: For more information, please contact us at info@workertoworker.net
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