Today, the Colour Line/Is the Power Line/Is the Poverty Line
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Racism and imperialism work in tandem
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And poverty is their handmaiden
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Those who are poor and powerless to break out of their poverty
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Are also those who by and large are non-white, non-western, third world
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Poverty and powerlessness are interwined in colour, in race
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Discrimination and exploitation feed into each other today
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Under global capitalism...
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We are back to primitive accumulation - plunder on a world scale
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Only this time, the pillage is accompanied by aid, sustained by expert
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advice and underpinned by programmes and policies that perpetuate dependency
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The IMF, The World Bank, Structural Adjustment Programmes
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General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade - GATT,
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are just a few of the organisations, schemes, projects
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which under the guise of developing the third world, plunder it.
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Trade agreements and commodity price-fixing, patents and
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intellectual property rights
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They lock them into paralytic dependency
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There's no such thing as illegal immigrants, only illegal
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governments...
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Black is not just the colour of our skins
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It's the colour of our politics...
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There's no such thing as illegal immigrants, only illegal
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governments...
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Today, the colour line/is the power line/is the poverty line
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Colour Line
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