{"id":125,"date":"2005-08-16T11:51:49","date_gmt":"2005-08-16T19:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/ross\/2005\/08\/16\/petras-the-afl-cio-and-the-iraq-war\/"},"modified":"2005-08-16T11:51:49","modified_gmt":"2005-08-16T19:51:49","slug":"petras-the-afl-cio-and-the-iraq-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2005\/08\/petras-the-afl-cio-and-the-iraq-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Petras: &#8220;The AFL-CIO and the Iraq war&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his essay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebelion.org\/noticia.php?id=18485\">The AFL-CIO and the Iraq War<\/a>, published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebelion.org\">Rebelion.org<\/a> he argues the Iraq War resolution approved at the AFL-CIO&#8217;s latest convention, apart from an ambiguous phrase thrown in to pacify a few dissidents, remained true to its history of supporting imperial wars and tyranny while continuing to lose members and loyalties in the US for its efforts.<\/p>\n<p>[James Petras has worked with the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement for the last eleven years in addition to his work with the unemployed workers&#8217; movement in Argentina. He is coauthor, with Henry Veltmeyer, of <i>Globalization Unmasked: Imperialism in the 21st Century<\/i> (Zed Books, 2001), which won the 2002 Kenny Prize in Marxist &amp; Labour\/Left Studies. He is also author of a collection of short stories, <i>Andando por el mundo<\/i> (Altamira Publishing Group, 2001).]The AFL-CIO and the Iraq war<br \/>\nJames Petras<br \/>\nRebeli<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his essay The AFL-CIO and the Iraq War, published by Rebelion.org he argues the Iraq War resolution approved at the AFL-CIO&#8217;s latest convention, apart from an ambiguous phrase thrown in to pacify a few dissidents, remained true to its history of supporting imperial wars and tyranny while continuing to lose members and loyalties in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}