The economic struggle of the working class in the Americas as a whole

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• The working-class history in general of the Americas

Latin American class struggle is ignored by U.S. media

By Daniel Vila, in People's Weekly World, 12 July, 1997.

A Blow for Cross-Border Organizing

By David Bacon, San Francisco Guardian, 2 December 1998. Workers at Echlin's ITAPSA brake plant in Mexico City try to form a union, and when the struggle gets support from workers in US, the company begins a vendata against the workers.