Whence the hostility to International Solidaity With Workers in Russia? My superficial impression (emphasis on "superficial") of them has been largely positive.
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>The same political forces who built "solidarity" with Bosnia and the
>"Serb Workers", are now trying to do the same with Chechnya and "Russian
>Workers".
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>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".
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>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.
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>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.
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>Tony Abdo
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