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Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–1988

Ray Alexander

Red Weekly No. 102, 22 May 1975 · p. 8 of the scan · 153 words

The scan: rw-no102-may-22-1975.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 8 of the scan

will go to those who dominate the economies of the third world-the big multi-national firms of the imperialist countries. Moreover the Common Market imperialists can afford to be generous with this money, since they are not planning on paying much of it out themselves. The idea is that the funds for these projects will be raised by the EEC governments and agencies in loans from the Middle Eastern oil producers, and then passed on to the third world EEC associates. (Some top Common Market bureaucrats see this as a new triangular pattern for world imperialism, with cash from the oil producers financing the flow of capital equipment and technology from the imperialist countries, under the control of the multi-nationals, for the exploitation of the third world countries.

MULTINATIONALS This brings us to the final point. All that is new in the Lome Agreement is that it does not NO A UNITED

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