Colombia: General Strike

Colombia: General Strike

On September 14, Colombia's labor unions called a 24-hour national strike that drew massive public support, with an estimated 25 ...
CAPITAL: Electrical Equipment: Foreign Profit Circuit

CAPITAL: Electrical Equipment: Foreign Profit Circuit

Since the turn of the century, as we saw in the history of Mexico's electrical power industry, monopolies like General ...
LABOR: Perspectives

LABOR: Perspectives

The government repression of the electrical workers' strike in July 1976 fit with cold logic into the overall panorama of ...
LABOR: The State Labor Bureaucracy

LABOR: The State Labor Bureaucracy

The Mexican State has aggressively stimulated capital accumulation with subsidies to private enterprise through the electrical, oil and rail industries, ...
CAPITAL: The Electrical Industry

CAPITAL: The Electrical Industry

U.S. companies have played a central role in the economic development of Mexico since the mid-1800s. Over the years, however, ...
Chile Lobby: Right Wing Gorillas

Chile Lobby: Right Wing Gorillas

When the Chilean Junta released Orlando Letelier from the Dawson Island concentration camp in September 1974, they warned him that ...
LABOR: Capital Shapes a New Workforce

LABOR: Capital Shapes a New Workforce

When the world-wide recession of 1975 hit full force, hundreds of thousands of workers in the electrical equipment industry from ...
CAPITAL: The Foreign Debt

CAPITAL: The Foreign Debt

Almost seventeen years after the nationali- zation of the electrical industry, all of our forewarnings have been fulfilled. Techni- cally, ...