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The principles of trade unionism are based on working people acting together in solidarity with each other, to improve wages, working conditions, and life for themselves and all others. In its most developed forms, this extends not only to the worker next to you, but to working people all around the world, wherever they might be. Some of the foremost proponents of these principles in the United States since the 1880s has been the American Federation of Labor (AFL), then later the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), and since their merger in 1955, the AFL-CIO.

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The AFL-CIO's Secret War answers its own title question: ?Solidarity or Sabotage Kim Scipes draws together more evidence of the latter than can be found between any other two book covers. This volume is clearly written out of love for the union movement and our international working class. In focusing from various points of view on the historically concealed government funded role of AFL-CIO officialdom, carrying the bags for Corporate America abroad in pursuit of Empire, Scipes lets the catsout of the bags. This scholarly work will piss off key players in labor's hierarchy who, not wanting to ?wash our dirty laundry in public, ? have let the dirty laundry accumulate so its stink undermines honesty, transparency and solidarity. Getting thisbook into the hard working hands of the women and men who ARE the unions will contribute immensely to building international solidarity and the vitality, vision and power of our labor movement itself..--Fred Hirsch

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Kim Scipes is assistant professor of sociology at Purdue University North Central.

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