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Article: Labor imperialism redux? The AFL-CIO's foreign policy since 1995.
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- Monthly Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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Throughout much of its history, the AFL-CIO has carried out a reactionary labor program around the world. It has been unequivocally established that the AFL-CIO has worked to overthrow democratically-elected governments, collaborated with dictators against progressive labor movements, and supported reactionary labor movements against progressive governments. In short, the AFL-CIO has practiced what we can accurately call "labor imperialism." The appellation "AFL-CIA" has accurately represented reality and has not been left-wing paranoia.
"Labor imperialism" did not begin with the merger of the AFL-CIO in 1955. It actually began under the American Federation of ...