ʻO ke kikowaena hana US, ʻo ka AFL-CIO kahi Solidarity Center ma ʻApelika Hema. ʻAʻole ʻike ka poʻe uniona i kāna hana a kū paha. ʻO Kim Scipes, i loko o kēia ʻatikala hōʻike, hōʻike i kekahi o kāna mau hana ma ka honua holoʻokoʻa a kahaha no ke aha i pili ai ʻo Cosatu me ia.  [Buletin Labour o Aferika Hema, Vol. 30, Helu 5, paʻi hou ʻia ma ka ʻae ʻia]

ʻO ka AFL-CIO, ke kikowaena hana nui o ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa, he keʻena o kāna Solidarity Center ma Johannesburg. ʻAʻohe ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa ma waho o nā pae kiʻekiʻe o ke alakaʻi kulekele ʻē aʻe i loaʻa ka manaʻo iki i ke kumu o ka Solidarity Center ma ʻApelika Hema, a i ʻole kāna hana ma laila. Eia nō naʻe, hoʻohana ka Solidarity Center i ka ʻoiaʻiʻo e hana pū ana ʻo Cosatu me lākou e hoʻohaʻahaʻa i nā ʻōlelo hoʻohewa o ʻAmelika e pili ana i ke kulekele ʻē aʻe o ka AFL-CIO (AFL). Pono e nīnau ʻia ka nīnau: ke pāʻani nei ʻo Cosatu me ka diabolo?

AFL-CIO mōʻaukala o ka imperialism

Ua loaʻa i ka AFL kahi kulekele aupuni ʻē aʻe. Hoʻi kēia i kona mua i ka 19 -teens, ka American Federation of Labor (AFL) i ka wā ma lalo o ka Pelekikena Samuel Gompers, ua komo ka AFL i ka Mexican Revolution (1911-1917). Ua hana ikaika ka AFL e kūkulu i ke kākoʻo no nā Allies i ka wā o ke Kaua Honua Mua, a ua koi aku i ke Aupuni US e komo. Ma hope mai, hoʻokani ʻo Gompers a me ka AFL i nā kuleana koʻikoʻi i ka hoʻomohala ʻana i ke kulekele ʻē aʻe o ʻAmelika e kūʻē i ka Soviet Union.

I ka wā ma hope o ke Kaua Honua II, ʻo ka US labor movement, mua ma lalo o ka AFL a laila, ma hope o 1955 i ka hui ʻana o ka American Federation of Labor me ka Congress of Industrial Organizations e lilo i AFL-CIO, ua ikaika loa ma ka honua. Ua kōkua ʻo ia i ka hoʻokahuli ʻana i nā aupuni i koho ʻia ma Guatemala (1954), Brazil (1964) a me Chile (1973). Ua kākoʻo ʻo ia i nā neʻe ʻana o nā limahana hana i kākoʻo i nā dictatorships ma El Salvador, Indonesia, Philippines, South Korea, Guatemala, Brazil a me Chile ma hope o ka hoʻokahuli aupuni. Ua hoʻohaʻahaʻa ia i nā aupuni holomua ma British Guyana (1963), Nicaragua (1980s), a me Haiti ma lalo o ke aupuni Aristide mua i nā makahiki 1990. Ua hoʻopau pū ʻo ia i nā uniona kālepa hou a me ka neʻe anti-apartheid ma ʻApelika Hema a hiki i 1986 i ka wā i hoʻomaka ai e ʻike i ke kākau ʻana ma ka paia a hoʻoholo e kākoʻo iā Cosatu.

I ka makahiki 1995, ua hoʻopaʻa ʻia ka AFL i kāna koho pelekikena mua i hoʻopaʻapaʻa ʻia ma 40 mau makahiki o ke ola ʻana. Ua lanakila ʻo John Sweeney, he kipi, a ua lawelawe ʻo ia ma ke ʻano he pelekikena mai ia manawa.

ʻO ke kulekele ʻē aʻe kekahi kumu i alakaʻi ai i ke koho balota ʻana iā Sweeney. Ua hoʻohana ʻo ia i ka ʻōlelo ʻokoʻa mai ka kuʻuna kuʻuna kuʻuna o ka poʻe ma mua o George Meany lāua ʻo Lane Kirkland, a ua hoʻopaʻapaʻa ʻo ia no ka lokahi honua. Ua hoʻoponopono hou ʻo ia i nā ʻōnaehana kulekele ʻē aʻe o ka AFL a hui pū i nā hana semi-autonomous ma mua ma Latin America, ʻApelika, ʻAsia a me ʻEuropa Komohana i loko o kahi Center Centrally-controlled American Center for International Labor Solidarity (ACILS) a i ʻole ma nā huaʻōlelo kaulana, ka "Solidarity Center." Ua koho ʻo ia i kahi mea holomua e poʻo i ke Keʻena ʻOihana ʻĀina o AFL, ʻo Barbara Shailor. Me he mea lā ua hoʻololi ʻia ke kulekele ʻē aʻe o ka AFL i mea e haʻaheo ai nā uniona ʻAmelika. 

ʻO ka mea pono e hoʻomanaʻo ʻia, ʻaʻohe [ital] o nā papahana kulekele ʻē aʻe o ka AFL i kūkākūkā ʻia a hoʻopaʻapaʻa ʻia e nā hui uniona kūlana, a i ʻole e nā luna nui o nā uniona. ʻAʻole loa i hōʻike pololei ʻia nā hana, ʻoiai ke noi ʻia e nā hui hana, e like me ka California State AFL-CIO, ma mua o ka hoʻokaʻawale ʻana i ka makahiki 2005, he 2.4 miliona mau lālā, hoʻokahi hapaono o nā lālā o ka AFL.

He kakaikahi ka poe uniona i ike i keia mau hana haole. Hana lākou me ka ʻike ʻole o nā uniona ʻAmelika, akā ua hana ʻia lākou "ma ko mākou inoa." ʻO kēia papahana kulekele haole ke kuleana o nā alakaʻi hana kiʻekiʻe loa, a me kā lākou limahana hoʻolimalima. Ua hoʻomohala ʻia kēia papahana kulekele aupuni ʻē aʻe mai loko mai o ka neʻe ʻana o ka hana, ʻaʻole e ke Aupuni US, White House, a i ʻole CIA.

 

ʻAʻohe hoʻololi

ʻAʻole i hoʻololi [ital] ke koho ʻana o Sweeney a me ka hoʻomohala ʻana o ka Solidarity Center i ka papahana kulekele ʻē aʻe o ka AFL. Ua komo ikaika ka Solidarity Center i ka hoʻāʻo ʻana i ka hoʻokahuli aupuni ma ʻApelila 2002 kūʻē i ka pelekikena i koho democratically o Venezuela, ʻo Hugo Chavez. ʻOiai he hana ʻoi aku ka maʻalahi mai ka makahiki 1997 ua hoʻomau ka AFL i kāna hana mōʻaukala o ka imperialism hana.

ʻOi aku ka maikaʻi, ʻaʻole hana wale ka AFL-CIO a me kāna Solidarity Center. ʻO ka AFL kekahi o nā mea i hoʻokumu i ka Reagan-hoʻomaka akā hōʻino hewa ʻia ʻo National Endowment for Democracy (NED), i hoʻokumu ʻia ma 1983. Ua hoʻokumu ʻia ka NED e ke aupuni US no ka pane ʻana i ka hōʻike ʻana i nā hana huna CIA i ka makahiki 1960 a me '70s. a ua hoʻolālā ʻia e hana malū i ka mea a CIA i hana malu ai. Manaʻo ka poʻe hōʻino i ka Solidarity Center e loaʻa ana ma luna o 90% o kāna kālā mai ke aupuni US.

ʻO ka AFL's Free Trade Union Institute (i pani ʻia e ka Solidarity Center ma 1997) ʻo ia kekahi o nā kula nui ʻehā o ka NED, me nā ʻēheu honua o ka Democratic Party, Republican Party a me ka US Chamber of Commerce. ʻAʻole ʻike ʻia kahi hui uniona ma waho o ke alakaʻi kiʻekiʻe i ke ʻano o ka "core institute" o ka NED, ʻokoʻa ka hoʻoili kālā i nā hui a lākou e kākoʻo ai. Akā, ua manaʻo ʻia ua kōkua lākou i ka hoʻonohonoho ʻana i nā kulekele, a ʻaneʻane maopopo ua kōkua nā alakaʻi o Solidarity Center i ka hoʻonohonoho ʻana i ke kulekele NED e pili ana i nā hana hana.

ʻO ka NED ʻoiai ua manaʻo ʻia he "kūʻokoʻa" ua hoʻomau kālā ʻia e ka US Congress. Ua hoʻokomo ʻia kona Papa i nā mea hana kiʻekiʻe loa i loko o nā ʻōnaehana kulekele ʻē aʻe o ke aupuni US, ʻo ia hoʻi nā Kakauolelo mua o ka mokuʻāina ʻo Henry Kissinger lāua ʻo Madeleine Albright, ka luna o ka National Security Council Chair Zbigniew Brzezinski, ka Pelekikena World Bank i kēia manawa ʻo Paul Wolfowitz, a me ke Kakauolelo o ka Labour a me US Trade. Lunamakaainana, Bill Brock.

Ke koi nei ka NED e "hoʻolaha i ka demokalaka" a puni ka honua, a ke hele nei e pili ana i "nā koho balota," akā i ka ʻoiaʻiʻo, ʻo kāna mau hoʻoikaika ʻana e hoʻokumu i ka "democracy" ma luna. ʻAʻohe mea pili i ke kanaka hoʻokahi, hoʻokahi koho balota kaulana i ʻike ʻia e ka hapa nui o nā ʻAmelika a me nā poʻe a puni ka honua he demokala. 

He mea hoʻohenehene ʻo kahi hui e hoʻokani ana i ka "democracy" i loko o kāna hoʻonohonoho hoʻonohonoho, ʻaʻole democratic. Ua hoʻonohonoho ʻia ka NED no laila inā makemake ka luna pelekikena o ʻAmelika e hoʻololi i kāna mau kulekele, ʻaʻole hiki. Hoʻonohonoho ka NED i kāna kulekele ʻē aʻe me ke kūʻokoʻa i kekahi hoʻokele a ʻo ka poʻe hiki ke hoʻololi i kāna mau kulekele ʻo ia nā lālā o kāna Papa Hoʻokele. Ua koho ʻia kēia mau alakaʻi e ke alakaʻi NED. ʻO ka NED ka mea, a he ikaika hoʻohuli a puni ka honua. Ua hana ia ma nā ʻāina he nui akā ʻike mākou i kāna mau hana ma Venezuela. Maanei hiki iā mākou ke ʻike pehea e hana ai ka AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center me ka NED.

 

Hoʻohaʻahaʻa i Venezuela

Ua hana ka NED ma Venezuela, ka ʻelima o ka mea hana aila nui loa ma ka honua, mai ka makahiki 1992. Ua hāʻawi ʻo NED iā US $4,039,331 i nā hana Venezuelan a me ʻAmelika e hana ana ma Venezuela ma waena o 1992 a me 2001. Ma luna o 60% ($2,439,489) i hāʻawi ʻia ma waena o 1997-2001. Mai ka makahiki 1997, kokoke i ka hapaha ($587,926) i hele i ka Solidarity Center no kāna hana me ka Confederacion de Trabajadores Venezolanos (CTV - Confederation of Venezuelan Workers). I ka makahiki 2002, ua hoʻokomo ʻo NED i $1,099,352 hou, a ua loaʻa i ka Solidarity Center he $116,001 no kāna hana me ka CTV. A pau, ua loaʻa i ka Solidarity Center he $703,927 mai NED no kāna hana ma Venezuela ma waena o 1997-2002.

He aha ka hana a ka Solidarity Center ma Venezuela i hana ai? Ua ʻōlelo ka AFL-CIO ua hoʻoikaika ʻo ia i ka hoʻomaikaʻi ʻana i ka demokala kūloko o CTV, kahi kikowaena hana ʻole democratic. Ua pili ka CTV me ka AFL-CIO (ʻo ia hoʻi ʻo ka ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa i kākoʻo ʻia e ke Aupuni no ka hoʻomohala ʻana i nā hana manuahi) no nā makahiki he 30 a ʻoi aku, a he kia no ka ʻAmelika, kūʻē i ka unionism kūʻē i ka ʻāina. Ua nakinaki kekahi me ka CIA.

I ka hoʻomaka ʻana o ka makahiki 2002, kipa nā alakaʻi CTV i Wakinekona DC e hui me nā luna hoʻomalu o AFL-CIO kiʻekiʻe a me Bush. Ma waena o nā mea ʻē aʻe, ua kipa aku nā alakaʻi CTV iā Otto Reich, ke Kakauolelo Kokua o ka Moku'āina no ka ʻOihana Hemisphere Komohana.

Ma mua o kēia mau kipa ʻana, ua hele nā ​​limahana o Solidarity Center i nā hui e hui pū i nā alakaʻi o ka CTV a me FEDECAMARAS (Venezuelan national business confederation). ʻO kēia mau hālāwai, ʻeono ka nui, ua mālama ʻia a puni ka ʻāina a ua pau i kahi hālāwai aupuni ma Malaki 5, 2002. Ma kēlā hālāwai, ua kūkākūkā ka CTV a me FEDECAMARAS, i kākoʻo ʻia e ka Ekalesia Katolika, i kā lākou hopohopo a me nā mea nui e pili ana i ka hoʻomohala ʻāina a ʻike i nā mea maʻamau. nā pahuhopu a me nā wahi o ka launa pū ʻana. Ua poni ʻia ka CTV a me FEDECAMARAS "nā hui hae" i ka hakakā ʻana me Pelekikena Chavez.

Wahi a kahi hōʻike Solidarity Center i ʻike ʻole ʻia, ua manaʻo ʻia ka hana hui e hana i kahi "National Accord" e pale aku i kahi "pilikia politika a me ka hoʻokele waiwai hohonu ... Ua kōkua ka Solidarity Center i ke kākoʻo ʻana i ka hanana i nā pae hoʻolālā, hoʻonohonoho i nā hālāwai mua me ke kiaʻāina. o ka mokuʻāina ʻo Miranda a me ka hui ʻoihana, ʻo FEDECAMAS, e kūkākūkā a hoʻokumu i kahi papahana no ia hui ʻana i ka waena o Ianuali. " Ua hoʻopau ʻia ka hōʻike me: "ʻO ka ʻaha kūkā aupuni ʻo Malaki 5 i uku ʻia e nā kālā counterpart," e hōʻike ana i nā kālā ma waho o nā kahawai NED-Solidarity Center maʻamau.

He 30 mau lā ma hope o ka ʻaha kūkā ʻo Malaki 5, ua hoʻomaka ka CTV a me FEDECAMARAS i kahi kīʻaha ākea ākea ma ka lā 9 ʻApelila e kūʻē ai i ke kī ʻana o ka hoʻokele ʻoihana ʻaila i ka lā 7 ʻApelila a hoʻomaka nā hanana e alakaʻi ana i ka hoʻāʻo kipi, kahi i hoʻokani ai ʻo CTV a me FEDECAMAS i nā kuleana koʻikoʻi. .

Ma ʻApelila 11, ua mālama ʻia kahi huakaʻi nui a me ka hōʻikeʻike e kākoʻo iā CTV. "Ma kahi o ke awakea o ʻApelila 11, ua hoʻomaka nā mea haʻiʻōlelo i ka hui kūʻē, me ka pelekikena o ka CTV, ʻo Carlos Ortega, e kāhea aku i nā mea kākoʻo e hele i ka Pelekikena Pelekikena, Miraflores, e koi i ka haʻalele ʻana o Chavez." Ua kākau ʻo Lee Sustar, "ʻO ka mea hiki ʻole ke hoʻopaʻapaʻa, akā naʻe, ua hui pū ʻo Ortega me FEDECAMAS e kāhea i ka hahau a me ka huakaʻi i hoʻonohonoho i ke kahua no ka hoʻokahuli aupuni."

I ka hoʻoholo ʻana o nā alakaʻi koa o ka hoʻokahuli aupuni e hana a hoʻopau iā Chavez, ua koho ʻia ʻo FEDECAMARAS 'Carmona e nā alakaʻi kipi e lilo i pelekikena hou. Ua hoʻohiki ʻia ʻo Carmona ma ʻApelila 12, a ua hoʻopau koke ʻo ia i "nā keʻena demokalakala āpau o Venezuela, ʻo ia hoʻi ka National Assembly, ka ʻAha Kiʻekiʻe, ke Keʻena Defender Public, ka Loio Kuhina, ke Kumukānāwai a me nā kānāwai 49 a Chavez i hoʻoholo ai i Dekemaba."

Ua hoʻopiʻi ʻia ka hoʻokahuli aupuni a puni ka honua, me ʻelua ʻokoʻa. Ua hoʻopuka ka Pelekikena o ka International Republican Institute (he "core institute" o NED), ʻo George A. Folsom, i kahi ʻōlelo e hoʻomaikaʻi ana i nā alakaʻi kipi. A laila, kākoʻo ka Bush Administration i ka hoʻokahuli aupuni. I ka pane ʻana i ka hoʻāʻo kipi, ua hoʻoneʻe ʻia ka poʻe i loko o nā miliona, ka hoʻokaʻawale ʻana o ka pūʻali koa a hāʻule ka hoʻokahuli. Ua hoʻihoʻi ʻia ʻo Chavez i ka hale pelekikena o ʻApelila 14, 2002, kahi i hoʻomaka ai ʻo ia i kāna mau hana ma ke ʻano he Pelekikena.

Ua ʻike ʻia ua hoʻonui ka NED i kāna kālā makahiki i kāna mau mea kūʻai mai Venezuela i $877,000 i ka makahiki ma mua o ka hoʻāʻo ʻana. Ma waho aʻe o ka $154,377 i hāʻawi ʻia i ka Solidarity Center, ua hāʻawi pū ka NED i ka National Democratic Institute for International Affairs $210,000 "no ka hoʻolaha ʻana i ke kuleana o ke aupuni kūloko '; $399,998 i ka International Republican Institute no ka "kūkulu ʻana i ka ʻaoʻao politika"; Kikowaena o ka Hui Kūikawā Nui.

ʻO kēia hoʻoikaika destabilization ma Venezuela kahi ʻāpana o ka hoʻolālā ala he nui e hōʻino i ke aupuni o Chavez. Aia pū kekahi me ke kākoʻo ʻana i kahi hui mahiʻai e kūʻē ana i ka hoʻoponopono ʻāina; he hui hoʻonaʻauao i ʻōlelo ʻole i nā hoʻoponopono hoʻonaʻauao; he hui e imi ana e hooulu i ke kipi koa; he hui civic i hana e hoʻouluulu i nā kaiāulu waena e 'pale aku iā lākou iho' mai ka poʻe ʻilihune; he pūʻulu hoʻoponopono kīwila e kūʻē ana i nā hui kaiaulu ma muli o ke kākoʻo ʻana i ke aupuni Chavez; he 'hui alakaʻi' e kākoʻo ana i nā mākaʻi o Caracas metropolitan, nona ka hana i lilo i mea hoʻoweliweli i ka makahiki i hala; a me kekahi mau hui kū'ē iā Chavez i loaʻa kālā mai NED.

Ua komo pū ka CTV i kahi laka ʻoihana ʻaila nui i hala 63 mau lā ma waena o Dekemaba 2002 a me Pepeluali 2003. Ua lilo kēia i ka ʻāina ma mua o $ 10 biliona i nā loaʻa aila e hele ana kekahi o lākou i ka hoʻonaʻauao a me ka mālama ola kino no ka poʻe Venezuelan ʻilihune loa he 80. % o ka lehulehu.

Ua akaka ia ka AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center, e hana pū ana me ka NED o ke Aupuni US i hana nui i ka hopena ma Venezuela.

 

ʻO nā hui ʻAmelika e hakakā nei

I mua o kēia hana hoʻomāinoino, ua hoʻonohonoho kahi helu liʻiliʻi o nā uniona US i ke Kōmike Solidarity Worker to Worker Solidarity (www.workertoworker.net). Manaʻo ia e koi i ka AFL e hoʻopau i kāna kulekele aupuni imperialist, e ʻoki i nā pilina me NED, a e wehe i kāna mau puke e pili ana i nā hana, i hala a i kēia manawa, a puni ka honua. Ua ʻike nā alakaʻi o AFL i kēia ʻano hoʻoweliweli i kā lākou hoʻohaʻahaʻa ākea ʻana i ke aupuni democracy o loko i ka 2005 National Convention ma Chicago, i ka hoʻāʻo ʻana e pale i nā mea hoʻokūkū kulekele ʻē aʻe mai ka ʻōlelo ʻana mai ka papahele.

Ke alo nei i kahi pūʻulu paʻa o nā mea hoʻokūkū, ua lawe ka AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center i kahi ʻelele Cosatu i kahi hālāwai kūkā ma Philadelphia i ʻAukake 2005 i hoʻonohonoho ʻia e ka Labour Movements Section o ka American Sociological Association. ʻAʻole ʻike ʻia inā e hana ana ʻo ia ma ke ʻano pilikino a hoʻonohonoho paha i ka hālāwai. Ua hoʻolauna ʻia ʻo ia ma ke ʻano he ʻelele no Cosatu a ua kamaʻilio ʻo ia no ka lōkahi i loaʻa e Cosatu mai ka Solidarity Center.

ʻO ka mea mahalo, ua kamaʻilio wale ʻo ia pehea e hiki ai iā Cosatu ke loaʻa kālā mai ka Solidarity Center ma South Africa e hoʻolilo i kāna mau kulekele kulekele ʻē aʻe. ʻAʻohe kamaʻilio e pili ana i ke kōkua ʻana o ka Solidarity Center iā Cosatu e kūkulu i ka lōkahi o nā limahana a me nā limahana ma nā palena ʻāina.

ʻAʻole maopopo iaʻu, ma waho aʻe o kēia hōʻike hoʻokahi, ka mea a ka Solidarity Center e hana nei ma ʻApelika Hema. ʻAʻole au i ʻike i ka pilina o Cosatu me ka Solidarity Center. Akā ʻike wau i kēia hihia hoʻokahi, ua hoʻohana ka Solidarity Center i kahi ʻelele Cosatu no ka hoʻopau ʻana i nā hoʻoikaika ʻana a nā uniona kālepa ʻAmelika e hoʻopau i ka papahana kulekele aupuni ʻē aʻe o ka AFL-CIO. Pono e hōʻike a hoʻopau ʻia kēia mau pilina. He nui nā mea e nalowale ai ʻo Cosatu inā hoʻomau ʻo ia e hana pū me ka AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center.

 

He lālā ʻo Kim Scipes o ka National Writers Union, AFL-CIO, a ua kūʻē i nā kulekele ʻē aʻe o AFL-CIO no nā makahiki he 20. Aʻo ʻo ia i ka ʻepekema ma ke Kulanui ʻo Purdue North Central ma Westville, Indiana, USA. Hiki ke kiʻi ʻia kāna pūnaewele "Contemporary Labor Issues" ma

http://faculty.pnc.edu/kscipes/LabourBib.htm me nā palapala piha o nā koi i kēia ʻatikala. Hiki ke loaʻa iā ia ma kscipes@pnc.edu. Ua paʻi ʻo ia i ka "KMU: Building Genuine Trade Unionism in the Philippines, 1980-1994" ma 1996

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