This is nothing more than a New Left veneer for the old AFL-CIO interventionism in Latin America and the rest of the Third World. We now know that the CIA and other government agencies worked in close alliance with the AFL-CIO to finance this "solidarity".
International Solidarity With Workers in Russia is an organization that The US Left should reject. The Labor Movement has a long, sorry, history of pumping dollars into the political situations of more impoverished areas. This is also the US government strategy for intervention in the internal affairs of countries it hopes to undermine.
Hopefully the majority of the socialist US Left will reject this approach. To not do so would have far graver consequences, than if the labor movement went along with the anti-Chinese forces now trying to deny China entry into the WTO.
Tony Abdo