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You've raised a valuable point here concerning another
'tentacle' of the neoliberal global power grab - one
that's often overlooked: The role of the International
Affairs Department of the AFL-CIO.
In fact, go to the National Endowment for Democracy
Web site (http://www.ned.org) and - you'll have to
navigate a bit as the information has been buried
because of rank and file complaints about the matter -
and you'll see that when the NED was set up during the
Reagan years, the AFL-CIO Free Trade Union Institute
(a resurrection of George Meany's Free Trade Union
Committee) was - and remains - one of the four
component parts of the NED. (The other three are the
Center for International Private Enterprise, the
National Republican Institute for International
Affairs, and the National Democratic Institute for
International Affairs.)
Leon Lynch, Vice-President of the United Steelworkers
of America is on the Board of Directors of the
National Endowment for Democracy.
If the AFL-CIO has changed from the time of Meany to
that of Sweeney, it's changed least in regard to its
role of facilitating US foreign policy objectives.
Several very committed trade unionists around the
country are actively exposing and fighting against
this connection, and I'd be glad to provide
information on their work to anyone who wants it.
In the meanwhile, I notice that the NED has just added
three new members, three that are among the most
dangerous people alive today: Frank Carlucci, Wesley
Clark and Richard Holbrooke.
--- Louis R Godena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Hi folks!
>
> I'm not sure the Zastava workers themselves are
> "shills" for NATO, but their
> leaders certainly are a wholly-owned subsidiary of
> the US State Department
> (they have received AFL-CIO International Department
> funding since the early
> 1990s, and are currently cashing NED checks). Of
> course, they "opposed" the
> NATO bombing (in the same sense Republicans "oppose"
> discrimination, or the
> editors of the New York Times "oppose" the torture
> and murder of Palestinian
> rock-throwers by the Zionist security forces. What
> else are they going to
> say? It is a manufactured stance designed to lend
> credibility to their
> other aims, which are a) the selling off of
> Yugoslavian state assets to
> private investors, b) the removal of left-wing
> politicians from national
> office, c) the imposition of a NATO client state
> government beholden to
> Brussels and Washington, and d) integration into
> NATO and the EU.
>
> Back during the bombing, I was a co-moderator of
> Marxism-International out
> of Emory U. There was a long and acrimonious debate
> between A Olaechea (a
> Peruvian national living in exile in London), and
> representativesof the
> Zastava workers. They echoed the NATO line in
> everything but the bombing
> itself.
>
> You have to be very careful about labor "leaders"
> (my own carpenters union,
> which in April left the AFL-CIO, is a textbook
> example of talking out of
> both sides of its mouth). In Zimbabwe, the
> legitimate grievances of the
> workers are being used by foreign-appointed
> "leaders" to excite popular
> indignation and hostility toward the Mugabe regime.
> This to serve the
> interests of Anglo American, Shell, and various
> other foreign capitalists.
> In Zambia, a union president was installed by the
> IMF to gut social gains
> won over decades of struggle. Poland is a famous
> example of AFL-"CIA"-
> inspired "trade unions" coming to power and
> destroying the social safety net
> (18% unemployment under a "Solidarity" government!).
> The criminal, fascist
> state of "Israel" started life -as did most fascist
> movements - as an
> embodiment of the political aspirations of organized
> labor.
> Social-Democracy, like fascism, is a revision of
> Marxism. It's "labor"
> component is peripatetic and unstable. More often
> than not, it comes
> quickly to serve the interests of capital and its
> most reactionary and
> revanchist social elements. I think this is
> typically true of the Zastava
> people.
>
> Louis Godena,
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 12:15 AM
> Subject: Re: Zastava Workers Protest in Kragujevac
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> > In a message dated 05/08/01 21:24:05 Eastern
> Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > writes:
> >
> > > I hope you don't mind my asking for your help
> to understand about the
> > > Zastava workers. I am confused. I thought they
> were the ones who sat in
> > with
> > >
> > > their plant and when the bombs dropped they
> were killed and/or injured
> > when
> > > NATO destroyed their factory, the largest in
> Yugo. Do I have it wrong?
> >
> >
> > No you don't Heather. You are exactly right, I
> don't know were people got
> > the idea that these workers were pro-NATO shills.
> >
> > cheers!
> >
> > Kole
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