{"id":402894,"date":"2019-04-11T13:26:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T12:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lessons-of-the-matamoros-workers-rebellion-part-four\/"},"modified":"2019-04-11T13:26:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T12:26:28","slug":"lessons-of-the-matamoros-workers-rebellion-part-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lessons-of-the-matamoros-workers-rebellion-part-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons of the Matamoros workers\u2019 rebellion: Part four"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h4>New trade union bureaucracies or rank-and-file workers\u2019 power?<\/h4>\n<h2>Lessons of the Matamoros workers\u2019 rebellion: Part four<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Andrea Lobo<br \/>\n    <br \/>11 April 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p><strong>The AFL-CIO and \u201cdemocratic\u201d unions in Latin America<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The record shows Prieto and the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) have been working closely together to channel growing discontent among workers on the border behind Mexican unions partnered, financed and in some instances created by the AFL-CIO. These efforts are being intensified in response to the resurgent class struggle, which is rapidly turning into a rebellion against the Mexican CTM labor federation, and to the coming to power of a government aligned with the faction of the bureaucracy favored by the AFL-CIO.<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageFull\" style=\"width:480px; oveflow:hidden;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/asset\/983f57e2-3fbc-4eba-9c12-b8340ce61a0A\/image.jpg?rendition=image480\" srcset=\"\/asset\/983f57e2-3fbc-4eba-9c12-b8340ce61a0A\/image.jpg?rendition=image960 2x\" width=\"480\" style=\"width:480px;\" \/><span>Workers confront Villafuerte outside of the SJOIIM\u2019s headquarters (credit: AquiMatamoros, January 17)<\/span><\/div>\n<p>It is not only a question of creating a new fa\u00e7ade for the trade-unions, but of integrating the Mexican state and its political institutions more directly into the operations of US imperialism and, to a lesser degree, German imperialism.<\/p>\n<p>While the initial impulse for the formation of the mass industrial unions in the US was provided by socialists and left-wing militants in the 1930s and 1940s, the merger of the CIO with the right wing AFL in 1955 was based on an explicitly anti-communist alliance with the US ruling elite to crack down on the support for socialism among workers during the Cold War. AFL leaders like George Meany, Irving Brown and Jay Lovestone collaborated with the war-time Office of Strategic Service (OSS) and its successor, the Central Intelligence Agency, in innumerable operations to subvert labor movements and counter the influence of socialists in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/04\/11\/mat4-a11.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 New trade union bureaucracies or rank-and-file workers\u2019 power? Lessons of the Matamoros workers\u2019 rebellion: Part four By Andrea Lobo 11 April 2019 The AFL-CIO and \u201cdemocratic\u201d unions in Latin America The record shows Prieto and the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) have been working closely together to channel growing discontent among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}