LEPAIO Site Map

We have designed this website to facilitate usage; this page gives an overview.

The following sections are all linked so you can go directly to the sections that are most interest to you.

• Statement of who we are and what LEPAIO is about.

Links to specific sections of the web site.

• Webinars: These are public presentations about topics on which we have focused (direct link to each)

LEPAIO Webinar, January 27, 2024: “Boycott Histadrut!  Zionism, the Histadrut, the AFL-CIO, and South Africa.” Panel speakers included David Hemson, Carol Lang, Lisa Milos, Mimi Rosenburg, and Jeff Schuhrke.”

• Statements by LEPAIO over relevant issues (direct link to each)

•  LEPAIO Opposes Dissolution of UAW Caucus, Supports Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD), April 20, 2025.

• “AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center Warns of Coming Forced Bankruptcy in Wake of DOGE Cuts; Reveals Previously Undisclosed Foreign Operations Funding in Court Submission, April 16, 2025.

• • • • • • • • • • • For AIFLD The American Newspaper Guild And The AFL-CIO International Affairs Program/AIFLD, March 1, 2024.

• • Press Release-Washington DC Events Commemorating 50th Anniversary Of US AFL-CIO Supported Chile Coup, August 30, 2023.

• LEPAIO; Resolution to End Government Funding of the International Operations of the AFL-CIO and Open the Books of the AFL-CIO, May 15, 2022.

• Presentations by scholars and activists on particular subject

• Books on AFL-CIO Foreign Policy

• Jeff Schuhrke, PhD and union member

• New book on Zionism: need to Update

• Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade. Verso.
• Kim Scipes, PhD and union member

• AFL-CIO’s Secret War against Developing Country Workers:  Solidarity or Sabotage?

• Scipes has been publishing on AFL-CIO foreign operations since 1989. For a full list of his articles, connected to original articles, please go to https://www.pnw.edu/personal-faculty-pages/kim-scipes-ph-d/publications/, and scroll down to AFL-CIO foreign operations.

• LEPAIO conference, April 9, 2022, in Washington, DC
• GENERAL OVERVIEW
• Kim Scipes on “US Labor Imperialism and the AFL-CIO.”
• Louis Wolf on the AFL-CIO and the CIA.”
• ISRAEL
• Carol Lang on “The Israeli Histadrut, the AFL-CIO, and Imperialism.”
• MEXICO
• Rob McKenzie on “The AFL-CIO Attack and Murder against Mexican City Ford Workers and El Golpe.”
• SOUTH AFRICA
• David Hemson on “The AFL-CIO in South Africa.”
• VENEZUELA
• William Camacaro on “The Role of the AFL-CIO in the 2002 Attempted Coup in Venezuela.”
• Margaret Flowers on “Twentieth Anniversary of the AFL-CIO supported Venezuelan coup.
• James Patrick Jordan on “US Government and Venezuela.”

• Article: “Newly Revealed Documents Show How the AFL-CIO Aided US Interference in Venezuela” by Tim Gill, August 2020. (linked directly to Jacobin article)

• “AFL-CIO’s Dark Past: A 6-Part Series by Harry Kelber, 2004

• Part 1: AFL-CIO’s Dark Past: Meany Hired Ex-Communist To Run International Affairs – November 8, 2004 Read Column
• Part 2: AFL-CIO’s Dark Past: AFL is Funded for Covert Activity by CIA- November 15, 2004 Read Column
• Part 3: AFL-CIO’s Dark Past:S. Labor Secretly Intervened in Europe – November 22, 2004 Read Column
• Part 4: U.S. Labor Reps. Conspired to Overthrow Elected Governments in Latin America – November 29, 2004 Read Column
• Part 5: Kirkland Built A Secret Global Empire With U.S. Funds to Control Foreign Labor – December 6, 2004 Read Column
• Part 6: Do Solidarity Center’s Covert Operations Help American Labor on Global Problems? – December 13, 2004 Read Column