Irwing Brown
Irwing Brown (1920 - 1986) was a American trade unionist member of the American Federation of Labor, then of the AFL-CIO which played a great part in Western Europe and in Africa to fight against the communist influence within the trade union of these countries.
Biography
He was the son of an assistant of Kerensky (Menchevik) which had emigrated in the United States after 1917. He was born in Chicago in 1920, was boxer there, then became trade unionist and faced the trade union of Teamsters (truck-drivers American) controlled by the Maffia. In 1944 it is charged by the OS with preparing the unloading in Sicily, then in Provence (what will make the fortune of the Guérini). It then sticks to weaken the communist movements in France and obtains Bergeron and Jouhaud which it leave the CGT and create FO (CGT-FO). It is for this reason that it is present creation of the trade union at 1986 at all its congresses. It is also one of the creators of the international Confédération of the free trade unions.
Installed in France, it directs there the international relations of AFL-CIO starting from end of the year 50 of its office of 10, rue de la Paix. It as well as takes a big part in the fight against the Greek Communists against Allende in Chile. It is one of the organizers then the democratic transition in this same Chile.
During the War of Algeria, it had financed the National movement Algerian (MNA) and supported certain tendencies of FLN with an aim of making pass the Algérie under American control. It was the greatest failure of its life. The general secretary of the Elysium of the time, Bernard Tricot, did not have the intelligence to negotiate with him an agreement on the Algerian crisis and against would not have ordered in DST to eliminate it, which failed by twice.
He had continued to maintain his networks in the USSR, in particular in Bakou and dies when these same minors of Bakou start strikes which contribute to precipitate the fall of the Soviet system.
He, in 1984, had organized the manisfestations which, a little everywhere in the world, accompanied the international round by Gorbatchev and thus broke the ultimate attempt to maintain in survival Soviet totalitarianism. Since 1985, he considered that the part was played and that the Soviet Union had lost the part: it was nothing any more but one matter of time.
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