Is John Sweeney a Socialist?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Jan 28 11:45:06 PST 2000


Nathan Newman wrote:


>As head of the AFL-CIO, he has expanded resources dedicated to organizing
>across the board

Minor technical point: the AFL-CIO has very little power to organize on its own. It depends on its member unions to do the real work. Some have been receptive, some haven't. For all the talk of the bureaucratic centralization of the U.S. labor movement, there really isn't that much, except maybe wheh it comes to writing checks to Al Gore.

Doug



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