Scipes, Kim

Books by Kim Scipes

Building Global Labor Solidarity

AFL-CIO's Secret Weapon against Developing Country Workers

Building Global Labor Solidarity In a Time of Accelerating Globalization

KMU: Building Genuine Trade Unionism in the Philippines 1980-1994

Details first 14 years of KMU Labor Center of the Philippines and how they built one of the most dynamic labor organizations in the world under a dictator.  Chapter 5 shows how AFL-CIO beneficiary worked with a death squad to stop a KMU-affiliated union.  Published by New Day Books, Quezon City, Philippines in 1996.
This book is no longer in print.  However, it IS available in its entirety for free on the internet:  go to https://www.pnw.edu/personal-faculty-pages/kim-scipes-ph-d/publications and the link to the book is right below picture of the books.

Articles by Kim Scipes

2025. “Review of Jeff Schuhrke’s No Neutrals There:  US Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine” at https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/review-of-jeff-schuhrkes-no-neutrals-there-us-labor-zionism-and-the-struggle-for-palestine/. October 28.

2024. “Review Essay—Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade by Jeff Schuhrke.”  Class, Race and Corporate Power, Vol. 12, Issue 2, Article 2, October 22. On-line at https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/review-blue-collar-empire-the-untold-story-of-us-labors-global-anticommunist-crusade-by-jeff-schuhrke/.

2022. “Labor Activists Launch New Organization to Challenge AFL-CIO Foreign Policy.” Covert Action Magazine, June 3. On-line at https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/06/03/labor-activists-launch-new-organization-to-challenge-afl-cio-foreign-policy/.

2022. “‘As Workers Win Victories in Mexico, It’s Important to Remember Past Machinations Against Them’:  A Review of El Golpe:  US Labor, the CIA, and the Coup at Ford in Mexico by Rob McKenzie (with Patrick Dunne).  February 28.  On-line at https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/02/28/as-workers-win-victories-in-mexico-its-important-to-remember-past-machinations-against-them/.

2020. “The AFL-CIO’s Foreign Policy Program:  Where Historians Now Stand.”  Class, Race, and Corporate Power. Vol. 8, No. 2, Article 5.  On-line at https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/11/06/the-afl-cios-foreign-policy-program-where-historians-now-stand/,

2018. “American Labour’s Cold War Abroad:  From Deep Freeze to Detente, 1945-1970 by Anthony Carew:  A Review Essay.” Class, Race and Corporate Power, Vol. 6, No. 2, Article 8.  On-line at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339159581_American_Labour%27s_Cold_War_Abroad_From_Deep_Freeze_to_Detente_1945-1970_by_Anthony_Carew_A_Review_Essay.

2016. “Labour Imperialism” in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-imperialism,edited by Immanuel Ness and Zak Cope.  London:  Palgrave Macmillan: 1294-1304.  On-line at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339129986_Labour_Imperialism.

2012. “Globalization from Below:  Labor Activists Challenging the AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Program.”  Critical Sociology,Vol. 38, No. 2, March: 303-323.  On-line at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254084376_Globalization_from_Below_Labor_Activists_Challenging_the_AFL-CIO_Foreign_Policy_Program.

2011. “Book Review: ‘In the Interest of Democracy’:  The Rise and Fall of the Early Cold War Alliance Between the American Federation of Labor and the Central Intelligence Agency by Quenby Olmsted Hughes.”  Working USA:  The Journal of Labor and Society, Vol. 14, No. 4, December: 634-638. On-line at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263115507_In_the_Interest_of_Democracy_The_Rise_and_Fall_of_the_Early_Cold_War_Alliance_between_the_American_Federation_of_Labor_and_the_Central_Intelligence_Agency_-_By_Quenby_Olmsted_Hughes.

2010. “Why Labor Imperialism? AFL-CIO’s Foreign Policy Leaders and the Developing World.” Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society, Vol. 13, No. 4, December: 465-479. On-line at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263615708_Why_labor_imperialism_AFL-CIO’s_foreign_policy_leaders_and_the_developing_world.

2007. “The AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Program and the 2002 Coup in Venezuela:  Was the AFL-CIO Involved?”  Journal of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences, Vol. X:  133-147.  On-line at https://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Labor/AFL_CIO_VenezCoup_2002.html.

2007. “Is Cosatu Playing with the Devil?  Investigating the AFL-CIO and Its Solidarity Center.”  South African Labour Bulletin,Vol. 30, No. 5: 15-18.  On-line at https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-cosatu-playing-with-the-devil-by-kim-scipes/.

2005. “Democracy Now!” “Unholy Alliance: The AFL-CIO and the National Endowment for Democracy in Venezuela.”  July 26.  A live TV interview with Kim Scipes and Fred Hirsch, beginning at 49:32. On-line at https://www.democracynow.org/2005/7/26/unholy_alliance_the_afl_cio_and,

2005. “Head of AFL-CIO International Affairs Department Refuses to be on Amy Goodman’s ‘Democracy Now!’ Program with Labor Activists Kim Scipes and Fred Hirsch.”  Chicago Indymedia Center, July 26.  On-line at https://chicago.indymedia.org/archive/newswire/display/60815/index.php.

2005. “Free Labor from the Empire:  Breaking the NED-Solidarity Center Connection.”  MR on Line,July 19.  On-line at https://mronline.org/2005/07/19/free-labor-from-the-empire-breaking-the-ned-solidarity-center-connection/.

2005. “An Unholy Alliance:  The AFL-CIO and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in Venezuela.”  ZNet,July 10.  On-line at https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/an-unholy-alliance-by-kim-scipes/.

2005. “Labor Imperialism Redux?  The AFL-CIO’s Foreign Policy Since 1995.”  Monthly Review, Vol. 57, No. 1, May: 23-36.  (References are in on-line version only.) On-line at https://monthlyreview.org/articles/labor-imperialism-redux-the-afl-cios-foreign-policy-since-1995/.

2005. “Are AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Leaders Engaging in Dirty Tricks?  Foreign Policy Efforts Being Challenged.”  Z Net, June 23. On-line at https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/are-afl-cio-foreign-policy-leaders-engaging-in-dirty-tricks-by-kim-scipes/.

2005. “AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Leaders Help Develop Bush’s Foreign Policy, Target Foreign Unions for Political Control.”  Labor Notes, March. On-line https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/afl-cio-foreign-policy-leaders-help-develop-bushs-foreign-policy-by-kim-scipes/

2004. “California AFL-CIO Rebuke National Level Foreign Policy Leaders. ZNet, September 5.  On-line at https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/california-afl-cio-rebukes-labors-national-level-foreign-policy-leaders-by-kim-scipes/.

2004. “AFL-CIO in Venezuela:  Déjà vu All Over Again.”  Labor Notes,April: 5.  On-line at https://labornotes.org/2004/04/afl-cio-venezuela-d%C3%A9j%C3%A0-vu-all-over-again.

2004. “AFL-CIO Refuses to ‘Clear the Air’ on Foreign Policy, Operations.” Labor Notes, February: 2. On-line at https://labornotes.org/node/957.

2003. “US Labor Against the War.”  Z Net,October 28. On-line at https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-labor-against-the-war-by-kim-scipes/.

2003. “Labor’s Cold War’ von Tim Shorrock:  Rezension von Kim Scipes.” [“Labor’s Cold War” by Tim Shorrock, The Nationof May 19, 2003:  Reaction by Scipes.]  [Posted in English on the LabourNet Germany web site on May 12.]  On-line at https://archiv.labournet.de/diskussion/gewerkschaft/scipes3.html,

2002. “AFL-CIO and Venezuela:  Return of Labor Imperialism, or a Mistaken Reaction?”  Z Magazine,  May 2.l On-line at https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/afl-cio-and-venezuela-return-of-labor-imperialism-or-a-mistaken-reaction-by-kim-scipes/.

2000. “Building International Labor Solidarity One Central Labor Council at a Time.”  Z Net Daily [e-mail] Commentary, Z Magazine,October 21.  On-line in English at https://archiv.labournet.de/diskussion/gewerkschaft/scipes1.html.

2000. “It’s Time to Come Clean:  Open the AFL-CIO Archives on International Labor Operations.”  Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 25, No. 2, Summer:  4-25.  On-line in English at https://archiv.labournet.de/diskussion/gewerkschaft/scipes2.html.

 

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