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"Mr President, the fiercer the exploitation of workers, the greater the wealth accumulated in the hands of the few. Such is capitalism. In demonstrations the starving, from Africa to the Middle East, and from south-east Asia to Latin America, chant one and the same slogan: ‘we are hungry!’
Demonstrations are being bloodily suppressed in Egypt, Somalia, Bangladesh, India and elsewhere. There have been deaths, injuries and hundreds of arrests. In Haiti, which is already occupied by imperialist forces, the suppressors have been the UN peacekeeping forces, who even shot at children. For imperialism is no less than occupation, appropriation and subjugation. The rage at the demonstrations is not solely over food, petrol or biofuel prices; it is the people’s protest about poverty and degradation, which are being aggravated by capitalist barbarity.
Imperialist organisations and associations are worried by the uprising of the hungry; they are calling for measures hardly different from those causing millions to starve to death. Your measures are fragmentary. You do not want to meet fundamental human needs, nor do these measures do so, for if they did, you would lose wealth. There is a solution. It is real disobedience and resistance which will lead to the overthrow of the exploitative barbarity of capitalism itself."@en1
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