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Identifies a number of forms of transborder internationalism that emerged 1994-1998 in response to the challenge posed by free trade, globalization, & their local manifestation in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). After an examination of the functioning of the North American Agreement on Labour Cooperation (NAALC), the symmetry of new labor internationalism is explored. It is concluded that internationalist initiatives among nations with widely differing developmental strengths must flow both ways, avoiding asymmetries of a paternalistic & projectionist variety in which workers & unions of high-wage economies initiate solidarity & cooperation around the notion of threats from workers in less developed societies. 32 References. Adapted from the source document.

AbstractIn August, September and October 1933 Cuban sugar workers seized several dozen mills and estates and, in a number of cases, inaugurated soviets. This major worker uprising coincided with the collapse of the regime of Gerardo Machado and the early stages of the reformist administration of Grau San Martín. An examination of the roots of labour organisation among sugar workers and of the dynamic of the insurgency reveals the strengths and the limitations of the role played by the Cuban Communist Party. The collapse of the institutional and coercive structures of the state apparatus greatly facilitated the worker actions.