Kim Scipes (2022) The Union Makes Us Strong (Z Net)

Scipes, Kim. 2022. “The Union Makes Us Strong: Understanding Trade Unionism in a Global Context.” Z Net, December 1. 

Jörg Nowak (2022) "After Lula's Narrow Victory"

Nowak, Jörg. 2022. “After Lula’s Narrow Victory: Return to Democratic Capitalism or an Ongoing Rightwing Insurgency?” Socialist Project: The Bullet, 10 Nov.

Dr. Kim Scipes (2022) interviewed by Kayla Vasilko

“Dr. Kim Scipes: Building a Network of Compassion in a World Waiting to be United,” Interviewed by Kayla Vasilko. Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement, 2022, 9(1): 39-46.

Kim Scipes interview (The Beacher Oct 2022)

Interview with Professor Kim Scipes

The Beacher Weekly Newspaper, 20 October 2022, Vol. 38, No. 41

The U.S. Marine Corps might seem like a strange place for a young enlistee, raised in a conservative military family, to experience a life-changing moment of interracial enlightenment. 

But for Steven “Kim” Scipes, a Purdue University Northwest professor emeritus and global labor scholar, a surprising assignment as a USMC corporal in 1971 to study how to better understand and engage Black Marines set him on a journey he could not have possibly imagined.

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Kim Scipes (2022) CovertAction Magazine

Scipes, Kim. 2022. “As workers win victories in Mexico, it’s important to remember past machinations against them.” CovertAction Magazine. 28 February. https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/02/28/as-workers-win-victories-in-mexico-its-important-to-remember-past-machinations-against-them/  

Mexico’s reenergized labor movement should be leery of AFL-CIO cooptation and CIA infiltration following long historical pattern

In early February, workers at a General Motors plant in Silao, a town in central Mexico, won an important victory by establishing an independent union. Rob McKenzie’s (assisted by Patrick Dunne) new book, El Golpe: U.S. Labor, the CIA, and the Coup at Ford in Mexico, reminds us of the great historical barriers that workers have faced in forming independent unions in Mexico.