This paper argues that the present proposal for a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) represents a significant escalation of a process underway since the mid-1970s. That process involves a transnational corporate agenda, borne out of the collapse of Bretton Woods, and designed to resolve the crisis which brought on the collapse. The elements of this transnational corporate agenda are analyzed as well as it implication for popular organizing.
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