The AFL-CIO’s ‘Solidarity Center’ (formally known as the American Center for International Labor Solidarity or ACILS) was actively involved in bringing together…
Kim Scipes
Kim Scipes, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Purdue University Northwest in
Westville, Indiana. He is one of the founders of LEPAIO, the Labor Education Project on the AFL-CIO International Operations (https://aflcio-int.education). . A former Sergeant in the USMC, he “turned around” on active duty, and has been a
political and labor activist for over 50 years. He has published four books and over 250 articles in the US
and in 11 different countries. His writings, many with direct links to the original article, can be found on-
line at https://www.pnw.edu/faculty/kim-scipes-ph-d/publications/; his latest book is Building Global
Labor Solidarity: Lessons from the Philippines, South Africa, Northwestern Europe, and the United
States (Lexington Books, 2021, 2022 paperback). Kim can be reached at [email protected].
The AFL-CIO is having its quadrennial convention in Chicago next month (July 2005) in Chicago. The labor movement is hurting: only about…
Throughout much of its history, the AFL-CIO has carried out a reactionary labor program around the world. It has been unequivocally established…
AFL-CIO foreign policy leaders are helping develop U.S. State Department policy regarding labor through an initiative called the Advisory Committee on Labor…
The 25th Biennial California State AFL-CIO Convention in July handed a stunning rebuke to national-level foreign policy leaders of the AFL-CIO at…
We hear ad nauseum from the mainstream media, and particularly the business-focused press, that the United States has the most productive economy…
Massive mobilizations, strikes, street conflict, hysterical mass media, social and economic disruption: Chile in 1972-73 Venezuela in 2002-04. The AFL-CIO is once…
"Bring the troops home NOW" is not only the slogan of a growing portion of the US peace movement, but it now…
There has been considerable debate and discussion recently on labor-related e-mail lists concerning possible AFL-CIO involvement in the recent attempted coup to…
Kim Scipes The government of Joseph "Erap" Estrada in the Philippines has just collapsed, with the president forced out by mass mobilization,…
