The AFL-CIO, is in a deep crisis. Following the recent split, it lost over 3 million members, reducing it to a mere 9% of the labor force and 7% of the private sector. James Petras argues that its crisis is the result of politics, including the politics of collaboration with employers and opposition to militant 'grass-root' organizing. Petras looks at the Iraq War resolution passed at the AFL-CIO convention in the context of its political crisis and its support for every major US foreign intervention.