Disclaimer - The following article is reposted here because it is an issue with some relevance to the IWW. The views of the author do not necessarily agree with those of the IWW and vice versa.
The IWW has no connections to "Hands of Venezuela", the Venezuelan state, or Hugo Chavez. This article specifically relates to workers and the IWW because of the AFL-CIO's apparent meddling in thw democratic affairs of workers in nations where the AFL-CIO has no organized presence.
In April 2002, following a general strike led by oil company management and collaborating labor union leaders in Venezuela, parts of the Venezuelan military launched a coup to remove democratically-elected President Hugo Chavez Frias from office. After physically removing Chavez from the presidential palace in Caracas, Miraflores, the head of the national business confederation, FEDECAMARAS, Pedro Carmona, was sworn into office.2
Posted Sun, 06/25/2006 - 6:49am by IWW.org Editor
PRESS RELEASE from Naftana - UK Support Committee for the General Unionof Oil Employees Iraq
OIL UNION BANK ACCOUNT FROZEN
IRAQI GOVERNMENT ATTACKS OPPONENTS OF OIL PRIVATISATION
We have just confirmed reports that the Iraqi regime has frozen all the bank accounts of the Iraqi oil workers' union, both abroad andwithin Iraq.Wave of anti-union activity by government The Iraqi regime's decision comes in the wake of a series of anti-union measures, including the disbanding of the council of the lawyers' union, freezing the writers' union accounts and the September 2005 decree making all trade union activity illegal.
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