The Worker to Worker Solidarity Committee, which demands that the AFL-CIO leadership end ALL relations with the mis-named National Endowment for Democracy and open the books on ALL their foreign operations, currently and historically, has just published Kim Scipes' latest article on AFL-CIO foreign operations titled "The AFL-CIO Foriegn Policy Program and the 2002 Coup in Venezuela: Was the AFL-CIO Involved?" This is on-line at www.workertoworker.net/afl_cio_foreign_policy_venezuela_kim_scipes_html .

Scipes does four things in this article. He discusses the AFL-CIO's foreign policy program and its history of foreign interventions; considers evidence of the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center staff activities in Venezuela prior to the coup attempt, and the coup attempt itself; reports AFL-CIO statements as well as others' concerning the coup attempt and subsequent analyses of the coup and US involvement; and answers the question as to whether the AFL-CIO, through its Solidarity Center, was involved in the 2002 coup attempt.

This is a message that should be sent to as wide a range of people as possible, so they can evaluate the evidence and analysis that Scipes provides.

This message, and the article itself, is expecially important to those who are in the labor movement.

NOTE: Scipes also published "Venezuela and South Africa: Redistributive Polices v. Neo-liberal Economic Policies" on MR Zine, September 25, 2006, which is on-line at mrzine.monthlyreview.org/scipes250906.html .