IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

How the other half dies

· Socialist Challenge No. 174, 27 November 1980 · pp. 15-16 of the scan · 272 words

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page 15 of the scan

in part caused by the deciof United States the end of i to cur Dack luc alca land under cultivation in the US by per cent. The reason was keep up had fallen DrICes. Willed 1976.

The effect of the cutback world's food suppid. severely reduce the plained harvests and wars. These underlying do LIC SOUl JUL Teedl mense ver CHes ese The economies these countries been distorted by capitalism.

Local ruling classes have orerence CasI crops for the world market, for local consumption.

LOT Danci of Afric peanuts for market severe ecological consequences such as soil erosion in Grenada much fertile juana. • These are just a few of the many examples which could be given.

As a consequence of this salsaliva, the most important exporter wheat monopoles have & static hold on food production.

Famine the conse• I nere is no merel "agricultural" solution to the problem The green revolu introduced 'super' strains of seed with a yield, Wa technically sound.

But without a balanced development of the whole backward country, which involves the development of industry well as agriculture, even the there it has occurred leads connie numbers of the urban poor.

page 16 of the scan

Socialist Challenge Now no woman is sate All women are now his as he murders victim No 13 Cops are protecting men - not women IF A woman from Mars wanted an explanation of the lowly status of women here on Earth, all she would need to do would be to take a look at last week's press coverage of the latest Yorkshire Ripper murder.

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