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.

Labor Express Radio (5 Sep 2021) an interview with Kim Scipes

Interview

Scipes, Kim. 2021. “Show: Labor Express for 9-5-2021 - Reflection and Analysis of the Trumka Years of the AFL-CIO with Two Labor Historians.” Labor Express Radio, 5 September.

Kim Scipes' book, KMU (1996), is available on-line for free

Scipes, Kim. 1996. KMU: Building Genuine Trade Unionism in the Philippines, 1980–1994. Quezon City, Philippines: New Day Publishers.

*Published in entirety, on-line for free: download [right below the covers of Scipes’ four published books, there is a link to the book]

NOTE:  As of June 1, 2021, thanks to Susan D. Anderson, and with the permission of New Day Publishers, the ENTIRE text to my 1996 book on the KMU is now available on-line for free.

The passing of Prof Aziz Choudry (1966-2021)

OBITUARY

To honour Professor Aziz Choudry’s (1966-2021) memory, a virtual meeting will be held on 5 June, 7:30pm SAST, 6:30pm UK time, 1:30pm Montreal, Canada, 5:30am Christchurch, New Zealand: Zoom