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supposed to be in glut.

The truth is that under capitalism a surplus does not mean that needs have been satisfied and that malnutrition has ceased to exist, but that profiteers now find an excess of goods after all possible sales have been made.

Karl Marx explains this in "There are not too many necessities of life produced, in proportion to the existing population. Quite the reverse.

Too little is produced to decently and humanely satisfy the wants of the great mass.

'There are not too many means of production produced to employ the able-bodied portion of the population. Quite the reverse. In the first place, too large a portion of the produced population is nat capable of working, and is through force of circumstances made dependent on exploiting the labour of others, or on labour which can pass under this name only under a miserable mode of production.

'In the second place, not enough means of production are produced to permit the employment of the entire ablebodied population under the most productive conditions, so that their absolute working period could be shortened by the mass and effectiveness of the constant capital employed during working hours.

'On the other hand, too many means of labour and necessities of life are produced at times to permit of their serving as means for the exploitation of labourers at a certain rate of profit. Too many commodities are pro But at the moment it is a growing tendency, reflecting the fact that there is a real stagnation of the productive forces of our society, whatever officials claim to prove from a 'favourable balance of payments'.

Many industries have suffered phenomena of Years from this during recent and its attendant 'solution of dumping.

Canadian and USA manufacturers complained continually throughout last year that electrical transformers were being dumped in N America by Britain, Japan, France, Italy and Sweden.

A spokesman for the American company, Westinghouse, said in March this year, such sales were capturing more than 95 per cent US government purchases and that this trade was clearly 'unlawful'.

A glut occurred also on the second-hand market of British airliners in 1969 and sellers scoured Europe, S America and Africa for buyers.

An article in 'The Times' cancluded that the introduction of the Boeing 707 and DC-8 could 'flood the market completely unless some central agency through which buying and selling negotiations could be initiated is set up internationally by airlines and manufacturers soon' The result of this situation is that orders on new aircraft are cut back and thousands of workers are thrown out of work from what is essentially a modern industry.

Synthetic fibres The production of nylon has varied sharply from shortage in 1967 to a world surplus in 1968, with Japanese producers exporting at 'distress prices, and the United States slashing prices in Europe. The continuous construction of new plants for the production of synthetic fibres means inevitable over-production in the near future.

Fishing tackle

A large amount of cut-price Japanese tackleritish been duced.

describe as 'the market of a sensitive industry'.

Haens and Files 'Savage in the extreme' was the description by an agent of a Portuguese firm about dumping duties applied by the British Board of Trade to rasps and files from Portugal and Australia.

Following complaints from ICI, Fisons, Shell and Albright and Wilsons, this year the Board of Trade put anti-dumping orders on crop nutriants originating in W Germany and Belgium. The duty was later extended to cover imports from Australia, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden.

A world surplus of fertilizers due to increases in production plant, mainly in Europe, has led to this situation.

The British firms have recently discussed a merger of manufacturing operations to try and rationalize production in the face of dwindling markets.

The amount of bricks in stock varies a great deal and large stocks can be depleted quickly. The credit squeeze and the drastic cut-back in the building programme in Britain has meant lay-offs and closures at the rate of one-a-week this year.

This comes at a time when hundreds of thousands of workers have no chance of owning a recent home, and more than 100,000 building workers are unemployed. resources, and would be mainly due to better varieties, improved yields,, and improved farming methods.

Big stores of poultry and pig meats would also be accumulating.

The greatest build-up of all would be in wheat and coarse grain, and the report emphasized that it was vital for the US 'to maintain its present acreage restrictions'.

Of significance is the sort of language used by the experts when discussing these figures.

Huge stocks of food are said a Financial simess oxamination examination of the OECD Report, speaks of the 'encouraging' fall in milk and protein surpluses and the surplus of certain temperate food products being a very real threat to the economic stability of many countries. ' The 'solution' for surpluses put forward by the Common Market 'experts' is to drive the farmer off the land and to increasingly support monopoly and mergers of the big farmers.

Dr Sicco Mansholt, Vice-President of the European Economic Community, has advocated that of the ten million farmers in Common Market countries, half should be moved off the land by 1980, and that 12 milion acres of farmland should be put to other uses.

The French Vedel Plan (1969) is even more ruthless, proposing to 'put back to nature one-third of cultivated land in France during the next 15 years'.

In France and Germany demonstrations by . peasants followed the publication of this report, and the shopkeepers also saw the trend towards rationalization and monopoly of production and of the retail trade as a threat to their livelihood.

A revealing report in The Times' in January this year explains that:

'Realizing that statistical predictions of this sort are demoralizing for the farment [the French Minister Agriculture] has now forbidden his staff to talk about the future in figures.' The cost of subsidies to farmers in the Common Market is enormous, over £310 million for milk products alone.

By 1973, the European Agricultural Fund expects to be spending £1,370 million, the greater part of which will be spent on supporting prices.

Rao grannam er adopted by the mat nterpatianal Fauste datoncacinsat 6.00 6.15 7.40 8.00 8.50 9.10 10.15 10.45 11.32 The worker in the Common Market pays not only for the food he consumes, but also for that which remains unsold. This is one reason why, for example, the price of butter in the Common Market countries is more than double the price of butter Even "surpluses' of rice are building up. In Japan, vast quantities of rice and other creals are being 'stored' at the bottom of lakes and down mine shafts.

Other produce expected to be running at a surplus in Europe before the end of the year include poultry meat, fish, fresh fruit (excluding citrus) and beef.

In the face of such a severe crisis capitalism seeks to impose restrictions on output on a world scale.

The recent meeting in Ottawa between representatives of the leading wheat producers-Canada USA, Argentina, Australia and the Common Market-was with the sole object of seeking ways of cutting production and maintaining profits.

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with m lews and Peter. 5. lather. into the sea, milk was poured away and cotton ploughed back into the soil.

In the midst of plenty, of shops full of goods that no one could buy, soup kitchens for the unemployed were set up.

As Marx and Engels outlined in the Communist Manifesto, the capitalist class attempts to get over the crisis:

'On the one hand by enforced destruction of a mass of productive forces; on the other, by the conquest of new narkets, and by the more horough exploitation of the old ones. That is to say, by paving the way for more extensive and more destructive crises, and by diminishing the means whereby crises are prevented.' Typical of the 'social reformers' who say they are concerned over the fact that the majority of the world's population IS slowly dying from malnutrition, s the scientist Sir Julian Huxley, it one time Director-General of UNESCO. Huxley took a roundthe-world trip in 1954 to examine the situation.

He came to the conclusion that sections of the world were grossly over-populated and that what. was needed was appeals to the consciences of the 'haves' to share their advantages with the 'have-nots'.

But also required was 'birth control, on a world scale and as soon as possible'.

On the use of other solutions like, for example, the possibilities of sections of the population of Asia being allowed to settle in Australia, Huxley disagreed and explained in a famous essay outlining his views:

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In fact, modern techniques of food production could easily feed the entire world from the existing cultivated land, if the modern methods of farming at present stagnating were fully developed.

Computer

New strains of wheat, rice and other plants, modern 'fields' of vegetables under glass with computer-controlled humidity, airflow, temperature and watering; pest-control systems, use of modern fertilizers and many other innovations could increase production to an enormous extent and create a real abundance to satisfy the needs of mamkind.

All these things show what could be achieved.

Far from being over-populated, in this condition, gross underpopulation of large sections of the planet occur.

At present, only 10 per cent of the earth's land surface is under cultivation, with 50 per cent unsuitable under present methods, (mountains, deserts, icefields, etc.). This still leaves 40 per cent available for cultivaIt is true to say that there is now no technical problem as as feeding the world's population is concerned.

The only problem is of the predatory nature of the capitalist class which tenaciously defends its right to operate a purely parasitic system based on the subjection of the majority to the most avid systems of exploitation and starvation in the name of profit. above except: 4.23-4.25, 6.01-6.35 Scene West.

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