Publications by Kim Scipes--Last updated: June 26, 2008.

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Since 1984, I have written and been published on a wide number of subjects--as of April 25, 2007, I have published 108 separate articles.  My articles that have been published--in hard copy, in hard copy and on web sites, and sometimes only on a web site--are listed by Subject:  Miscellaneous Publications; International Political Economy; Urban PoliticsWar/Military/Empire, Philippines; Venezuela; Labor Theory; Building Grassroots Labor Internationalism; International Labor (not Philippines); US Labor (not including AFL-CIO Foreign Operations); AFL-CIO Foreign Operations.  (With only a few exceptions, there is almost no overlap of the articles in the above-listed categories--and, whenever possible, electronic links to articles are provided.) 

However, on April 25, 2007, I created a new category, Neo-liberal Economic Policies.  This brings together my writings on this subject from the Philippines, South Africa, Venezuela and the United States (from different categories)--each based on personal field research.

NOTE:  While most of the links herein work well, there are some that do not.  I checked each one on April 25, 2007 and all are operable as of this date unless indicated otherwise.

 

Scipes, Kim.

MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS

 ---        1997.  “Book Review:  Revolution, Socialism and Nationalism in Viet Nam by Ken Post” [Five volumes].  Crossroads:  An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. [Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University], Vol. 10, No. 2, Fall: 194-196.

 ---        1999.  “Book Review:  Globalization, Social Movements and the New Internationalisms by Peter Waterman.”  SSSP Newsletter  [Society for the Study of Social Problems], Vol. 30, No. 1, Winter: 37-38.  [This was on-line at www.sssp1.org/index.cfm?FuseAction=page.main&tmsi=148&pageID=161&detailID=800, but is no longer available.]

---        2002.    “RC 44 Rocks:  Report from ISA’s World Congress of Sociology, Brisbane, July 2002.”  In Critical Solidarity (ASA Labor & Labor Movements Section Newsletter), Summer 2002: 7-8.

---        2003.  Solicited “Book Review:  Big Steel:  The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation, 1901-2001 by Kenneth Warren.”  Left History, Vol. 8, No. 2, Spring: 163-167.

---        2008.  "Developing Countries."  International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Ed.  Detroit:  Macmillan Reference USA, Vol. 2: 335-337. 

---        2008.  "Open Letter to the Chicago Tribune on the Future of the Tribune and Mass Media Local Newspapers."  ZNet, June 19.  On-line at www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/17945.

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INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY

 ---        1984.  “Industrial Policy:  Can It Lead the U.S. Out of Its Economic Malaise?” New Labor Review [Labor Studies Program, San Francisco State University], No. 6, Spring: 27-53.  Updated and republished in pamphlet form (December).

 ---        1998.  “The Economic Crisis in Asia is Not Under Control.”  January 9.  [Posted only on-line at www.tricon.com/%7ersantos/control.htm, but no longer available at this URL.]

 ---        1998.  “All Is Not Well in the World Economy.”  January 12. www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/25/027.html [This is the Hartford Web Project’s “Gateway to World History-World History Archives (sources for contemporary history)” site.] and http://www.cosatu.org.za/samwu/ecocrisis.htm. [SAMWU is the South African Municipal Workers Union, an affiliate of the Congress of South African Trade Unions--however, the SAMWU site is no longer accessible at this URL.]

 ---        1998.  “Economic Meltdown in Asia, 5/28/98.”  May 28.  www.vcn.bc.ca/summit/ EM%20may28.htm. [This is the site of the Virtual People’s Summit on APEC  (Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation), but this article is no longer available at this URL.]

 ---        1998.  “The ‘Success’ and Failure of the Asian ‘Financial’ Crisis.”  July 3.  www.vcn.bc.ca/summit/success.htm, but no longer available at this URL.

 ---        1999.  “The Global Economic Crisis and the US Economy.”  February 18 www.cosatu.org.za/samwu/scipes2.htm, but is no longer available at this URL.

 ---        1999.  “‘They’ Have Become ‘Us’:  Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on the People of East Asia.”  Canadian Dimension [Winnipeg, Manitoba], Vol. 33, No. 3, May-June: 24-26.

---        2000.  “Equity and Health.”  July 1.  Global Futures Bulletin #111, Institute for Global Futures Research, Earlville, Australia.  [Posted at http://perso.wanadoo.fr/claude.rochet/fiches/mond/eq&health.html].

 ---        2004.  “International Income Inequality:  Wither the United States?’  Z Net:  August 18.  http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/8025

---        2006.  "Venezuela and South Africa:  Redistributive Policies vs. Neo-liberal Economic Policies."  MR Zine, September 25.  On-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/scipes250906.html.  Also on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/3080.

---        2007.  "Neo-Liberal Economic Policies in the United States:  The Impact on American Workers."  Z Net, February 2.  On-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/2139.

 

NEO-LIBERAL ECONOMIC POLICIES AROUND THE GLOBE

 ---        1999/2000.“Review of the Month:  Global Economic Crisis, Neoliberal Solutions, and the Philippines.”  Monthly Review, Vol. 51, No. 7, December 1999: 1-14.  [Posted on-line at  www.monthlyreview.org/1299scip.htm.]  [This article, with minimal editing, was republished as “Detrimental Development:  The Global Economic Crisis and the Philippines.”  Indicator South Africa:  The Barometer of Social Trends [University of Natal, Durban], Vol. 17, No. 1, March 2000: 87-90.]

---        2006.  "Venezuela and South Africa:  Redistributive Policies vs. Neo-liberal Economic Policies."  MR Zine, September 25.  On-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/scipes250906.html.  Also on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/3080.

---        2007.  "Neo-Liberal Economic Policies in the United States:  The Impact on American Workers."  Z Net, February 2.  On-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/2139.

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ENVIRONMENT/ECOLOGICAL POLITICS

---        2007.  "Wo sind die Gruenen?" (Where Are the Greens?)  Z Net Daily Commentary, June 11.  On-line at http://www.zmag.org/zspace/viewCommentaryPrint/3133.

---        2007.  "The Green Party:  Critique, Response, and the Illinois Greens October 2007 Membership Meeting."  Z Net Daily Commentary, November 2.  On-line at www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2007-11/02scipes.cfm.

---        2008.  "Reviewing Monbiot's Heat."  Z Net, May 14.  On-line at www.zmag.org/zspace/viewCommentaryPrint/2490.

---        2008.  "The Green Party:  An Electoral Force to be Reckoned With?"  Synthesis/Regeneration, No. 46, Summer:  44-46.  On-line at www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/17973.

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URBAN POLITICS

 ---        1991.  “Conditions in an American City:  Oakland, California.”  Scholas Issues [Institute of Social Studies, The Hague], No. 1, January: 8-16.

---        2003.  “Opinion:  NIRPC [Northwest Indiana Regional Planning Commission] Must Change Course To Be A True Leader.”  (Gary, IN) Post-Tribune, June 12: B-11.

---        2006.  "Book Review:  The Cost of Being Poor:  A Comparative Study of Life in Poor Urban Neighborhoods in Gary, Indiana by Sandra L. Barnes."  Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 28, No. 2: 197-199.

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WAR/MILITARY/EMPIRE

 ---        1985.  “Guest Column:  The Vietnam War Hasn't Ended Yet.” The (Oakland, CA) Tribune, September 21:  12.

 ---        1993.  “Book Review:  Empire and Emancipation:  Power and Liberation on a Global Scale by Jan Nederveen Pieterse.”  Z Magazine [Boston], March: 69-70.

 ---        1996.  “Book Review:  The New Winter Soldiers:  GI and Veteran Dissent During the Vietnam War by Richard Moser.”  Z Magazine, July/August: 77-78; and The Veteran [Chicago: Vietnam Veterans Against the War], Vol. 26, Fall: 4, 17.  [Posted on-line at http://www.vvaw.org/veteran/article/?id=298.]

 ---        2000.  “Book Review:  Promoting Polyarchy:  Globalization, US Intervention and Hegemony by William I. Robinson.”  Z Magazine, February: 60-61.

---        2002.  “9/11/01:  Ramifications on the US Social Order--An Early Impression.”  Alternatives:  Turkish Journal of International Relations [Department of International Relations at Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey], Vol. 1, No. 2, Summer: 157-177.  [Posted on-line in English by Alternatives at http://www.alternativesjournal.net/volume1/number2/kim.htm].

---        2003  “Support Our Troops--It Depends.”  Posted on the Canadian Dimension web site, at www.canadiandimension.mb.ca/extra/d0327ks.htm on March 20; posted on the San Francisco Call web site www.sfcall.com/issues%202003/3.21.03/scipes%203.21.03.htm on March 21.  (The CD copy is no longer available.)

---        2005.  "It's the Beginning of the End--For the Empire, Not Just the War."  ZNet, December 1.  On-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/4903.

---        2007.  "How the 'GI Movement' Ended the Vietnam War (and was erased from history):  A Review of  'Sir, No Sir!,' a film by David Zeiger."  Substance, an educational policy journal in Chicago, Vol. 33, No. 7, March:  5.

---        2008.  "'Getting on the Bus for Justice':  Veterans from Chicago and Northwest Indiana Participate in 'Winter Soldier' Hearings in Washington, DC Area."  Substance (an education policy journal in Chicago), Vol. 33, No. 8, April:  24, 20.  On-line at http://www.zcommunications.org/zspace/viewCommentaryPrint/3479.  Also on-line at http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?id=15850.

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 PHILIPPINES

 ---        1986.  “The Labor Movement in the Philippines.”  Labor Notes,  April: 8-9, 13.

 ---        1986.  “Trade Union Education in the Philippines:  Its Role in the National Liberation Struggle.”   Trade Union Studies Journal  [London, England], No. 13, Summer: 18-19.

 ---        1987.  “KMU:  Building Rank and File Unionism in the Philippines.”  ideas and action [San Francisco], No. 8, Spring: 12-15.

---        1988.  “Learning from the KMU:  Alliance Building.”  Workers' Democracy, No. 28 (Conference on WSO, Second Issue): 8-12.

 ---        1989.  “International Union of Food Workers Expels Philippine Affiliate.”  Labor Notes, April:  12.

 ---        1989.  “Aquino's War Against Labor.”  The Workers' Voice [Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, Philippines],  Vol. I, No. 9, April: 1, 3, 5, 7-8,  and Agong International [Iligan City, Lanao del Norte, Philippines], April-June: 15-18.

 ---        1989.  “IUF Expels Philippine Workers.”  The Workers' Voice, Vol. I, No. 9, April: 6.

 ---        1989.  “KMU won over TUCP in Atlas Mine.”  The Workers' Voice, Vol. II, No. 2, October 15-November 15: 3-4, 11.

 ---        1989.  “The AFL-CIO Meddles in the Philippines.”  The Progressive [Madison], November: 33.

 ---        1990.  “The Philippines:  Aquino's Total War and the KMU.”  Z Magazine, January: 116-121.

 ---        1990.  “Interview with Cleofe Zapanta, Secretary General of the KMK [women workers organization] of the Philippines.”  Z Magazine, May: 105-107.

 ---        1990  “Learning from the KMU:  Alliance Building” in Don Fitz and David Roediger, editors, Within the Shell of the Old:  Essays on Workers’ Self Organization.  Chicago:  Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company: 81-88.

 ---        1990.  “Three Weeks with the KMU in the Philippines.”  Workers' Democracy, No. 36, September-October:  1-7.

 ---        1993.  “Radical Labor in the Time of Marcos and Aquino:  The Development of the Kilusang Mayo Uno.”  Solidarity [Solidaridad Publications, Manila], No. 139-140, July-December: 35-68.

 ---        1996.  KMU:  Building Genuine Trade Unionism in the Philippines, 1980-1994.  Quezon City, Metro Manila:  New Day Publishers.  (Available from inter-library loans or from www.kabayancentral.com/book/newday/mb1009609.htm.)

 ---        1999/2000.“Review of the Month:  Global Economic Crisis, Neoliberal Solutions, and the Philippines.”  Monthly Review, Vol. 51, No. 7, December 1999: 1-14.  [Posted on-line at  www.monthlyreview.org/1299scip.htm.]  [This article, with minimal editing, was republished as “Detrimental Development:  The Global Economic Crisis and the Philippines.”  Indicator South Africa:  The Barometer of Social Trends [University of Natal, Durban], Vol. 17, No. 1, March 2000: 87-90.]

---        2001.  “Round Two: People’s Power in the Philippines Removes Another President.”  Z Net Daily [e-mail] Commentary, Z Magazine, January 25.  Posted at http://www.zmag.org/zspace/viewCommentaryPrint/689 and at www.canadiandimension.mb.ca/extra/x0217ks.htm.  (Note:  the Canadian Dimension version is no longer available.)

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VENEZUELA

---        2002.  “AFL-CIO and Venezuela:  Return of Labor Imperialism, or a Mistaken Reaction?”  Posted on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/12128 on May 2.

---        2004.  “AFL-CIO in Venezuela:  Déjà vu All Over Again.”  Labor Notes, April: 5.  On-line at www.counterpunch.org/scipes03292004.html.  Also on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/8846.

---        2005.  "An Unholy Alliance:  The AFL-CIO and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in Venezuela."  ZNet, July 10.  Posted on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/5864.

---        2006.  "Reverse Solidarity:  The Reactionary Role of US Labor in Haiti and Venezuela."  On-line transcript of a radio interview with Kim Scipes and Jeb Sprague by Dennis Bernstein of Flashpoints Radio.  Carried nationally on the Pacifica Network.  Transcript published by Upside Down World at www.upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/327/1/.

---        2006.  "Ten Days in Venezuela:  A Visit to the Land of Hope."  Venezuela Analysis, July 7.  On-line at www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1771.  Also on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/3614.

---        2006.  "Venezuela and South Africa:  Redistributive Policies vs. Neo-liberal Policies."  MR Zine, September 25.  On-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/scipes250906.html. Also on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/3080.

---        2006.  "The AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Program and the 2002 Coup in Venezuela:  Was the AFL-CIO Involved?"  September 25.  On-line at www.workertoworker.net/afl_cio_foreign_policy_venezuela_kim_scipes.html.  Also on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/3088.

---        2006.  "Venezuelan Labor--An Update."  Labor and Working Class History Association Newsletter, No. 5, December: 1, 4.

 

LABOR THEORY

 ---        1992.  “Social Movement Unionism and the Kilusang Mayo Uno.”  Kasarinlan [Third World Studies Center, University of the Philippines], Vol. 7, Nos. 2-3 (4th Qtr. 1991-1st Qtr. 1992): 121-162.  [Posted on-line in English by LabourNet Germany at www.labournet.de/diskussion/gewerkschaft/smu/smuks_ka.pdf.]

 ---        1992.  “Understanding the New Labor Movements in the 'Third World':  The Emergence of Social Movement Unionism.”  Critical Sociology, Vol. 19, No. 2: 81-101. [Posted on-line in English by LabourNet Germany at www.labournet.de/diskussion/gewerkschaft/smu/The_New_Unions_Crit_Soc.htm ]

 ---        2000.  “Social Movement Unionism:  A Call for Theoretical Clarification.”  Comparative Labour Movements Research Committee (RC44) Newsletter [Johannesburg],  International Sociological Association, December: 6.

 ---       2001.  “Social Movement Unionism:  Can We Apply the Theoretical Conceptualization to the New Unions in South Africa--And Beyond?”  [Posted on-line in English on LabourNet Germany on March 26 at www.labournet.de/diskussion/gewerkschaft/smuandsa.html.].

---        2008.  "Wage Labor."  The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, edited by Peter N. Stearns.  New York and Oxford:  Oxford University Press, Vol. 7: 521-524.

 

BUILDING GRASSROOTS LABOR INTERNATIONALISM

---        1985.  “San Francisco Longshoremen:  ‘When that ship came in, we were ready’.” International Labour Reports, No. 9, May-June: 12-13.

---        1988.  “Building the New Shop Floor Internationalism.”  Workers' Democracy, No. 26: 8-15.

---        1990.  “The New International Labor Movement.”  Workers' Democracy, No. 35, July-August:  1-2.

---        2000.  “Communicating Labor Internationalism:  The KMU’s ‘International Solidarity Affair’.”  January 3.  www.antenna.nl/~waterman/scipes.html.  [This site, created and maintained by Peter Waterman, is known as “The Global Solidarity Dialogue” Site, and features “Analysis, Theory and Strategy” toward building global solidarity.]

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INTERNATIONAL LABOR (NOT PHILIPPINES)

---        1984.  “British Printers Defy ‘Unjust’ Law, But Fail to Win Labor Federation's Backing.”  Labor Notes, January: 10.

---        2003.  Solicited “Book Review:  Made in Indonesia:  Indonesian Workers Since Suharto by Dan La Botz.  Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, Department des relations industrielles, Universite Laval (Quebec), Vol. 58, No. 4, Fall:  722-724.

---        2004.  “Book Review:  Hidden Knowledge:  Organized Labor and the Information Age by D.W. Livingstone and Peter H. Sawchuk.” [Canadian workers.] Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 29, No.3, Fall: 119-120.

 

US LABOR (NOT INCLUDING AFL-CIO FOREIGN OPERATIONS)

---        1984.  “Educating Workers to Fight Plant Closures:  Experiences of the Plant Closures Project of Oakland, California, USA.”  Trade Union Studies Journal, No. 9, Summer: 24-25.

---        1984.  “The Reagan Toll.”  International Labour Reports, No. 6, November-December: 9-10.

---        1985.    “Mass Picketing Gets Mission Foods Off the Shelves.”  Labor Notes, February: 3, 6.

---        1985.  “Viewpoint:  Labor is Begging for Respect Instead of Earning It.”  Labor Notes, July: 12.

---        1987.  “Building a Socialist Labor Movement in the United States.”  Workers' Democracy, No. 25, Fall: 3-7.

---        1988.  “Organizing Non-Hierarchical, Egalitarian Workplace Organizations.”  Workers' Democracy, No. 29: 7-10.

---        1989.  “Uniting Workplace-Oriented Activists:  Local Alliances and a National Network.”  Workers' Democracy, No. 32, Summer-Fall: 8-17.

---        1990.  “Book Review:  Cultures of Solidarity by Rick Fantasia.”  Z Magazine, April: 73-74.

---        1991.  “Building a New American Labor Movement in the Context of the Struggle for an Ecologically-Sustainable Society.”  Unpublished M.A. Paper, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands.

---        1991.  “Labor-Community Coalitions:  Not all They're Cracked Up to Be” [a review of Building Bridges:  The Emerging Grassroots Coalition of Labor and Community, edited by Jeremy Brecher and Tim Costello].  Monthly Review [New York], December: 36-48.  Posted on-line at http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1132/is_n7_v43/ai_11686039.)

---        2000.  “The US Labour Movement and Seattle.” Comparative Labour Movements Research Committee (RC44) Newsletter [Johannesburg],  International Sociological Association, March: 3.  Posted on-line at www.wits.ac.za/fac/arts/swop/mar00.htm#2, but no longer available.

---        2000.  “Book Review:  Taking Care of Business:  Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor by Paul Buhle.”  American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 105, No. 6, May: 1772-1774.

---        2003. “Introduction” (with Margaret Hallock) by Co-editors of “Generating Power for the Labor Movement,” Conference Edition of Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 28, No. 1, Spring: i-iv.

---        2003.  “US Labor Against the War:  A Report from the Founding National Assembly.”  Posted on-line at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=19&ItemID=4416 on October 28.

---        2003. “Trade Union Development And Racial Oppression In Chicago’s Steel And Meatpacking Industries, 1933-1955.”  Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago.

---        2005.  "Distilling the 2005 AFL-CIO Convention:  Disaster Ahoy!" MRZine (Monthly Review webzine), August 8.  On-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/scipes080805.html.)  Also on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/5658.

---        2005.  "US Labor Leaders:  Missing in Action."  MRZine. September 14.  Posted on-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/scipes140905.html.  Also on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/5389.

---        2005.  "Labor:  Eyeless in America."  MRZine, October 31.  Posted on-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/scipes311005.html.  Also posted on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/5103.

---        2005.  "Labor:  Engaging the Community and Building Grassroots Legitimacy--A Report from Northwest Indiana."  MR Zine, November 25.  Posted on-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/scipes251105.html.

---        2005.  "Labor Rights:  If Unions Won't Fight for Them, Then What Good Are Unions?"  MR Zine, December 14.  Posted on-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/scipes141205.html.  Also on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/4796.

---        2006.  "When Will the AFL-CIO Leadership Quit Blaming the Chinese Government for Multinational Corporate Decisions, US Government Policies, and US Labor Leaders' Inept Responses?"  MR Zine, July 3.  Posted on-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/scipes030706.html.

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AFL-CIO FOREIGN OPERATIONS

---        1987.  “AFL-CIO’s International Bulletin is Sophisticated Misinformation.”  Labor Notes, January:  15.

---        1987.  “Picketers Challenge AFL-CIO's Foreign Policy.”  Labor Notes, May: 12.

---        1989.  “Trade Union Imperialism in the U.S. Yesterday:  Business Unionism, Samuel Gompers and AFL Foreign Policy.”  Newsletter of International Labour Studies [Institute of Labor Education, Research and Information, The Hague, The Netherlands], Nos. 40-41, January-April: 4-20.

---        1993.  “Book Review:  Workers of the World Undermined:  American Labor's Role in U.S. Foreign Policy by Beth Sims.”  Z Magazine,  November: 61-62.

---        1997.  “What is the AFL-CIO Doing in the Third World?”  NACTA Voice, Fall.  On-line at www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/8425/AFL-CIA1.HTM?200625 .  [NACTA  Voice is the journal of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association of the United States, but is longer available at the original URL:  use this one instead.]

---        1998.  “CIA, AFL-CIO, and Pinochet.”  December 2. Posted on-line at www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/42a/126.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.  [Posted on-line in English by LabourNet Germany at www.labournet.de/diskussion/gewerkschaft/scipes2.html]

---        2000.  “Building International Labor Solidarity One Central Labor Council at a Time.”  Z Net Daily [e-mail] Commentary, Z Magazine, October 21.  [Posted in English on LabourNet Germany at www.labournet.de/diskussion/gewerkschaft/scipes1.html.]

---        2000.  “Building International Labor Solidarity:  Escalating the Struggle within the AFL-CIO.”  Posted on-line at http://www.zmag.org/zspace/viewCommentaryPrint/588 on December 12.

---        2002.  “AFL-CIO and Venezuela:  Return of Labor Imperialism, or a Mistaken Reaction?”  Posted on the Z Magazine web site, at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/12128 on May 2.

---       2003.  “‘Labor’s Cold War’ von Tim Shorrock, The Nation vom 19. Mai 2003:  Rezension von Kim Scipes.” [“Labor’s Cold War” by Tim Shorrock, The Nation of May 19, 2003:  Reaction by Scipes.]  [Posted in English on the LabourNet Germany web site, at www.labournet.de/diskussion/gewerkschaft/scipes3.html on May 12.]

---       2004.  “AFL-CIO Refuses to ‘Clear the Air’ on Foreign Policy, Operations.” Labor Notes, February: 2.  (Article begun in newsletter, but complete article—with reference listing—initially on web site at www.labornotes.org/archives/2004/02/articles/b.html, but no longer available.)

---        2004.  “AFL-CIO in Venezuela:  Déjà vu All Over Again.”  Labor Notes, April: 5.  On-line at www.counterpunch.org/scipes03292004.html.  Also on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/8846.

---        2004.  “California AFL-CIO Rebukes Labor’s National Level Foreign Policy Leaders.”  Labor Notes, September: 14.  (Article introduced in newsletter, carried in whole on web site at www.labornotes.org/archives/2004/09/articles/h.html, but no longer available. A more complete, un-edited, version of this article is at http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?id=6394.)

---        2004.  “Grass-roots Trade Unionists Rein in America’s ‘AFL-CIA’.”  Red Pepper [London], September: 16.

---        2005.  "AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Leaders Help Develop Bush's Foreign Policy, Target Foreign Unions for Political Control."  Labor Notes, March.  On-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/6706.

---        2005.  "Labor Imperialism Redux?  The AFL-CIO's Foreign Policy Since 1995."  Monthly Review, Vol. 57, No. 1, May.  (References are in on-line version only at www.monthlyreview.org/0505scipes.htm.)  Also on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/6370.

---        2005.  "Response to Ray Scannell."  Portside, June 5.  (Posted on-line at www.portside.org/showpost.php?postID=2143, but no longer available.)

---        2005.  "Are AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Leaders Engaging in Dirty Tricks?  Foreign Policy Efforts Being Challenged."  ZNet, June 23.  Posted on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/5991.

---        2005.  "Background Information to AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Operations in Venezuela." VHeadline, July 6.  [Initially posted on-line at www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=40457:  superceded by "An Unholy Alliance:  The AFL-CIO and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in Venezuela"--see below.]

---        2005.  "Key Recent Articles on AFL-CIO Foreign Policy."  Chicago Indymedia Center, July 10.  Posted on-line at http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/60035/index.php.

---        2005.  "An Unholy Alliance:  The AFL-CIO and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in Venezuela."  ZNet, July 10.  Posted on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/5864.

---        2005.  "Free Labor from the Empire:  Breaking the NED-Solidarity Center Connection."  MR Webzine, July 19.  Posted on-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/scipes190705.html.  Also on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/5756.

---        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.  (Posted on-line at http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/60815/index.php.)  Rush transcript from the Goodman interview with Scipes and Hirsch, as well as both an audio and video version of interview, can be found at www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/26/1419259.

---        2005.  "AFL-CIO Foreign Policy:  Final Report from the Convention."  ZNet, August 2.  Posted on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/5710.) 

---        2005.  "Reinserting 'Details'."  ZNet, August 22.  Posted on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/5572.

---        2006.  "Workers' Rights ARE Human Rights--Not Just in the USA, but around the World."  MRZine, January 25.  On-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/scipes250106.html.  Also on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/4514.

---        2006.  "Worker-to-Worker Solidarity Committee to AFL-CIO:  Cut All Ties with NED."  MRZine, April 29.  On-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/scipes290406.html.  Also on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/3954.

---        2006.  "A Specter is Haunting the AFL-CIO's Foreign Policy Program:  The Worker to Worker Solidarity Committee."  MRZine, June 2.  On-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/scipes020606.html.

---        2006.  "Reverse Solidarity:  The Reactionary Role of US Labor in Haiti and Venezuela."  On-line transcript of a radio interview with Kim Scipes and Jeb Sprague by Dennis Bernstein of Flashpoints Radio.  Carried nationally on the Pacifica Network.  Transcript published by Upside Down World at www.upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/327/1/.

---        2006.  "The AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Program and the 2002 Coup in Venezuela:  Was the AFL-CIO Involved?"  September 25.  On-line at www.workertoworker.net/afl_cio_foreign_policy_venezuela_kim_scipes.html.  Also on-line at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/3088.

---        2006.  "The AFL-CIO and International Policy:  Empire or Life?"  Socialist Dialogue:  Monthly Newsletter of the Socialist Potluck (Madison, WI), Vol. 13, No. 10, November: 2-3.

---        2006.  (with Fred Hirsch.)  "Open Letter to Institute of Policy Studies:  It's Time to Take Off the Halloween Masks."  SolidarityInfoServices, November 2.  On-line at www.futureoftheunion.com/?p=3441.

---        2007.  "Is Cosatu Playing with the Devil?  Investigating the AFL-CIO and Its Solidarity Center."  South African Labour Bulletin, Vol. 30, No. 5.  [In a pre-publication agreement with the Labour Bulletin, this article was published by MR Zine on December 22, 2006 at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/scipes221206.html, and by ZNet on December 24, 2006 at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/2465.]

---        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.  [This is an updated, and peer-reviewed version of the article linked above on the Worker to Worker Solidarity Committee website dated September 25, 2006.]

 

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