The coverment's response to the current outbreak of foot and mouth disease illustrates о отао пашо оба economic system which treats animals as commodities and Labour spin docsor' puts profit above al outer conton to tackling HIV - here and siderations. worldwide - including calling It also shows the repressive for the companies to drop measures which the state will their lawsuits against develop take to protect private property and business. Foot and mouth disease is John Nicholson, rarely fatal to animals and Manchester poses little danger to humans. There is no juscification for the mass slaughter of livestock from an animal welfare or human health aspect. Foot and mouth undermines both the productivity of live. stock and the market for them: the sustification for slaughter is purely economic and tied up moment of crisis.
with private pro duction under capicalism. tackle foot and mouth is a vaccination programme. Yet this has always been ruled out in Britain because i is more expensive than slaughter. The closure of public footpaths and pressure to stay out of the countryside is highly convenient to landowners batding to frustrate the righe to am Ruston And xenophobia is being whipped up to account for the deflect attention from the unhealthy conditions in Britain reared and slaughtered.
Outlook The working class is the backbone of unity among all the exploited and oppressed. The work- autonomy. ing class and its alles must compromisingly fight against capitalism and for a clear programme of action in order to gradually acquire the experience and consciousness needed to defeat capitalism at the decisive gay men, and black people to fight their parSocialists should intervene of agriculture and the countryside. Only a socialist programme can tackle the problems in agriproducing safe, cheap and crititious food, providing a decent livine for small farmers and rural workers, protecting the environment and treating nas win caneson Adam Hartman sential contribution to the struggle for a different society. They are organised around the principle "None so fit to break the chains as those who wear them".
The whole working class needs to fully commit itself to these struggles. Furthermore we fight for a strategic alliance between workers and these organisations -an alliance which respects their legitimate By building simultaneously revolutionary organisations in each country and a revolutionary International, we aim to guide and encompass the global interests of the work. ers and oppressed.
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