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Workshop about free trade zones: the example of the Maquilladores in Mexico

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Capitalīs global aims are not new- but capitalīs access to the globe is. What we today call globalization and neo-liberalism are capitalīs responses to this new development. They are structural adjustments intended to cement this newly expanded power.


Under the banner of freedom and democracy, progress and growth, those who profit from the investments of capital have further depend the structural roots of poverty, exploitation and occupation.


One of the central strategies of neo-liberalism has been to restructure labour, to restructure capitalīs access to and control over labour and natural resources. One of globalizations primary components is `flexibility` as evidenced in the free trade zones: the unhindered mobility of capital coupled with the forced mobility of labour.

The transition to flexible working hours and worldwide capital flow create the destroying of conventionel and collective structures and makes local and global resistance more difficult.

To organize resistance has to consider the global processes by building up collective and autonomous structures closing to the local conditions.

 

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