Almost eighty years before the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Ricardo Flores Magn- revolutionary, anarchist, labor organizer and expatriate nationalist-challenged the prevailing social order of both Mexico and the United States. Magn predicted that if Mexican workers failed to organize and shake off the yoke of capitalism, the nation would soon be dominated by foreign economic interests. And American workers, he warned, would find their firms and factories employing low-wage laborers in Mexico. Magn's message: "Mexico for Mexicans." Organized labor, however, would never gain a strong foothold in Mexico. Although the Constitution of 1917 guaranteed the right of workers to organize and strike, government restrictions, a historically unstable economy and meddling by the American interests including the IWW and the AFL), combined to limit the effectiveness of Mexican unions. "Mexico for Mexicans," or working-class nationalism, was and...

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