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Seventy years later, subsistence farming by poor tenant lation controls. farmers dominated by their debts to banks and loan sharks capitalist class in time had turned vast areas of the United States midwest into the semi-desert of the 'dust-bowl'.

Marx places the burden of guilt for such ruination ing first and foremost the squarely on the shoulders of the capitalists. Twist and wriggle as they may, they can never throw it off. Any struggle against poverty, pollution, ecological destruction, or any other social evil which is not insolubly linked with the struggle against capitalism is either conducted in ignorance, or in fraud. and war.

Certainly, there are many people who, through genuine concern over these questions, will be brought to socialism; to the understanding that only a socialist-planned world tion and will oppose popu- façade only thinly conceals the existence of an outlook which Fundamentally, however, the is essentially a preparation for La fascist ideology. crisis is looking for no more The continued 'scientific than vindication for its ravaging of the land, the mutildestruction of wealth and the ation and murder of workers means of production, includ- and peasants and the vain attempts to destroy the forces workers and peasants; an of the National Liberation excuse for turning back the Front in Vietnam, testify to productive forces from the the willingness of United terrible threat of abundance, of States imperialism to put such enough for all, to a stage of 'other ways' into operation. chronic shortages and the Here is yet another essential chance of new exploitable reason why the Socialist markets and 'lucrative open- Labour League considers the ings'. In the past this object construction of the revolutionhas been achieved by fascism ary party, to lead the working class in the final life-or-death At present, in the most struggle with a parasitical capadvanced capitalist countries, italist class, not an idea for the argument takes a polite future contemplation, but a form. A few of the entre- vital and urgent activity for preneurs previously ripping up today. the land for profit now see the CONCLUDED LEON TROTSKY :

Germany 1931/1932 Paperback £1.25-cloth Where Is Britain Going ? Paperback 37}p Revolution Betrayed Paperback 62}p--cloth £1. Problems of the Chinese R evol Paperback £1.12—cloth C 1.87 Permanent Revolution : Results and Prospects Paperback 75p In Defence of Marxism Paperback 75p Lessons of October Paperback 60р Postage 10p per book, pamphlet. Order from : NEW PARK PUBLICATIONS 186a Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UG.

GKN Sankey workers during their bltter pay struggle of 1970. Inset: GKN Chairman, Sir Raymond Brookes ho sits on the council of the right-wing Economic League. Reid, Alexander's Discount Co,