NAC.L.A. direct. Not only do many farm laborers work the crops on both sides of the border and have blood ties with the battles being fought there, but the corporations that e~ploit them are the same: De·I Monte, Tenneco, Deardorf Jackson, Anderson Clatyon & Co., etc. Furthermore, as farm workers in the U.S. win their democratic rights and just wages, U.S. growers will strive to export the production of certain labor intensive crops like tomatoes, asparagus and strawberries to Third World countries Hke Mexico, just as U.S. industry has <lone with the runaway shops (*). In the long run, the only solution to this dilemma is through the independent political organization of the working class of both countries, and the i,nternational coordination of their struggle. The capitalist class in Mexico and the U.S. are unified around thei,r mutual interests; the workers too will find that their strength ·lies in such an international alliance. As one farm worker employed by a company of U.S. and Mexican partnership expressed it, "The patrones are very much interested in keeping us separated. And as 'long as we are disorganized they will keep tak,ing advantage o,f us. One little movement over here, another over there doesn't harm them much. B-ut the day that we are united ... then it will be different". r•J See • The reserve army of /abor », by the same authors, on lnterrogaions n. 9. RESUME Seconde partie du document du NACLA sur la penetration coloniale des Etats-Unis au Mexique. L'article decrit brievement les conditions d'extreme misere des ouvriers agricoles qui travaillent dans les gigantesques plantations mara2cheres dont la production s'ecoule sur le marche nord-americain. Ce sont ces conditions qui permettent les benefices eleves des importateurs nord-americains - et, par consequent, des proprietaires terriens - grace a leur contr6le sur la production mexicaine. Les mouvement de re.volte se sont jusqu'ici heurte aux limites de la violence terroriste et, surtout, au syndicalisme blanc, encadrement des t ravailleurs dans des syndicats corrompus et pro-patronaux. La politique de la centrale syndicale CTM est quasiment collaborationniste, ce qui lui a fait perdre tout credit chez Ies ouvries agricoles. Aujourd'hui apparaissent en dehors d'elle des mouvements syndicaux autono,nes, nes de la prise de conscience et de la volonte de lutte des 130,
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