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#18 1986
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"Africa is a rich continent. But who benefits from the gold of Central
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Africa, the oil and tin of Nigeria, the iron ore of Liberia, the cobalt of the
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Congo, the diamonds, copper and tine of Zaire, the copper and cobalt of
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Zambia, the gold, diamonds, platinum and chromium of South Africa?
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"Not the African people, that's for sure. The big fortunes, the big houses,
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the great wealth is almost all concentrated in New York, London and Paris,
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that is, in the hands of those criminals who ripped off a whole continent.
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"This does not prevent George Shultz from claiming that capitalism will
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bring'liberation' to the Arfrican people.
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"Capitalism could start by liberating the African nations from their
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$175 billion debt burden to the big commercial banks. These countries are
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expected to fork over $24.5 billion a year from 1986 to 1990 in debt
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repayment, which is more money that they earn from their entire export
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earnings!
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"And all the time, these export earnings are plummeting, as the prices on
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the international capitalist market continues to drop for Zambia's copper,
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Chad's cotton, Nigeria's oil. That's another way the imperialists rob
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Africa....
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"The causes of Africa's troubles lie mostly outside the continent, in the
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capitals, banks and croporate board rooms of the nations which met last
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month in Tokyo. They do not owe the African people 'aid'. They owe billions
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of dollars, pounds and francs in reparations to pay back for all that they
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have stolen and the suffering they havce caused."
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--Andy Stapp, WORKERS WORLD, 5 June 1986
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"Each minute, 24 people (18 of whom are children) die of hunger.
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Starvation claims 35,000 lives a day, between 13 and 18 million lives a
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year. One billion of us are chronically, painfully malnourished.
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"So, those are the facts, with numbers topping Holocaust proportions.
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More people have dies from hunger in the past two years than were killed
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during World War I and II combined."
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--CREATIVE LOAFING, 30 November 1985
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KULTCHA
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c 1986 Kerry W. Thornley
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Available from:
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Illumi-Net
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(404) 377-1141
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