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Kim Scipes
Kim Scipes, PhD, is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Purdue University Northwest in Westville, IN. He is a global labor scholar, publishing AFL-CIO’s Secret War against Developing Country: Solidarity or Sabotage? in 2010. His latest book is titled Unions, Race, and Popular Democracy: Building a Progressive Labor Movement, and was published by Cornell University Press in August 2026. His web site is at https://tinyurl.com/Kim-Scipes. He can be reached at [email protected].
Source: CovertAction Magazine Labor activists from across the country, members of a number of unions, publicly announced the creation of LEPAIO, the…
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Interview on the role of US labor internationally including the National Endowment For Democracy NED and the AFL-CIO “Solidariity Center”
The death of AFL-CIO President John Sweeney has evoked examinations of his legacy. One can praise the good things but its important to address the bad things so we can have a more accurate understanding of his time
Review of Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution, by Don Fitz (Monthly Review Press)
Honor your loved ones and the ones who served for their personal ideals and attributes. They deserve that
By 1971, the Marine Corps had suffered racial outbreaks at every major Marine base in the world, except one