International Events on AFL-CIO Operations
The LEPAIO is for full transparency of the international role of the AFL-CIO and calls for the opening of the books of their role including their military and political interventions in collaboration with the CIA and US government agencies including AID and National Endowment for Democracy
All posts on the international involvements of the AFL-CIO
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On September 11, 1973, the US government organized a coup against the then sitting president, Salvadore Allende. Allende, while being a mixed bag politically, had the audacity to nationalize the coppers mines, a great source of wealth for US capitalism. He had to go. Thousands of people were murdered.Remember the coup! ...
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January 8, 1990 the AFL-CIO and the CIA organized and financed an assault on the Ford Mexico City assembly plant workers. The object was to remove a militant union leadership that was challenging Ford. Many workers were injured and one killed by this assault ...
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Newly Revealed Documents Show How the AFL-CIO Aided US Interference in Venezuela https://jacobin.com/2020/08/venezuela-hugo-chavez-afl-cio-united-states BY TIM GILL The AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center has a long history of working hand in glove with the US government in undermining democracy and left labor movements throughout the world. The center emphasizes it has shifted away from these Cold War tactics in recent years. But newly obtained documents show that the Solidarity Center has worked closely with the US to undermine the Venezuelan government in the recent past. President Hugo Chávez addresses his supporters during a massive rally called as a show of strength to counter ...
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Open Letter To Labor Notes About Relationship To US NED Funded AFL-CIO "Solidarity Center" In Mexico & US 6/16/22 Dear Al Bradbury, Editor, Labor Notes al@labornotes.org I’m sending you links to a zoom presentation I made last Saturday that coincided with the AFL-CIO Convention in Pa. In it, I address my concerns over the role of the U.S.-financed AFL-CIO Solidarity Center in Mexico, and the apparent ties between the SC and Labor Notes. The Solidarity Center just last year received $75 million from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) - a US government-funded, private non-profit. The zoom/live event was sponsored ...
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The following important report was published in San Jose, California, by Fred Hirsch on January 25, 1974. The title of the following 46-page report was “An Analysis of our AFL-CIO role in Latin America; or, Under the covers with the CIA.” On December 1, 1973, the Emergency Committee to Defend Democracy in Chile held a conference on Chile/Latin America/U.S. Foreign Policy. Out of that conference of 300 diverse people came a continuing workshop on U.S. labor’s role in Latin America. This paper was developed out of the discussions of trade unionists. In our attempt to penetrate the role of the ...
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The role of the Israeli trade union federation Histadrut, imperialism and the AFL-CIO was the focus of a presentation by NYC CUNY professor Carol Lang. She is also a member of the AFT-PSC. The talk was given at the founding conference of the Labor Education Project On AFL-CIO International Operations which was held in Washington, DC a on April 9, 2022 ...
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Kim Scipes, a professor at Purdue University Northwest and expert on the AFL-CIO international operations made a report the history of US labor's international role and labor imperialism. He spoke on the 20th anniversary of the US coup in Venezuela which was supported by the AFL-CIO through the National Endowment For Democracy NED. NED is funding the AFL-CIO with $75 million a year for it's international operations. Scipes is author of AFL-CIO's Secret War Against Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage?. This presentation took place at the founding conference of the Labor Education Project On AFL-CIO which took place in ...
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Louis Wolf, the co-editor of Covert Action Magazine spoke at the founding meeting of the Labor Education Project On AFL-CIO International Operations LEPAIO on April 9, 2022 in Washington, DC ...
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The role of the AFL-CIO in South Africa was the focus of the presentation by South African trade unionist, researcher, and educator David Hemson. He spoke at the founding conference of the Labor Education Project On AFL-CIO International Operations that was held on April 9, 2022, in Washington DC. He discussed the role of the AFL-CIO which collaborated with the CIA to fund Zulu Chief Buthelezi setting up a union and gang of gangsters to attack and murder union organizers and their families. Jabu Ndlovu was one of those trade union leaders of the BTR strike who was murdered along ...
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On the 20th anniversary of the US attempted coup in Venezuela which was supported by the AFL-CIO, James Patrick Jordan who is the Alliance For Global Justice National Co-Coordinator made a report on their role. The report was made at the founding conference of the Labor Education Project On AFL-CIO International Operations. The conference was held on April 9, 2022, in Washington DC ...
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