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The NAFTA Consensus
NAFTA is just one front in capital’s forty-year war on workers.
Edur Velasco Arregui is the coauthor of Continental Crucible: Big Business, Workers and Unions in the Transformation of North America. He is the former secretary-general of SITUAM (Sindicato Independiente de Trabajadores de la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana), a professor of law, and a union activist in Mexico.
NAFTA is just one front in capital’s forty-year war on workers.