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

Let them eat atom bombs'

Red Weekly No. 77, 21 November 1974 · pp. 6-7 of the scan · 151 words

The scan: rw-no77-nov-21-1974.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 6 of the scan

fering of the masses. While thous ands starve to death and milions of orbers beg for food, the 'Empress of India's" response is to say: "Let them cat atom bombs. Nothing is so bizarre or cynical as the sight of the Indian capitalists ex ploding nuclear weapons while the population starves.

Over 40 per cent of the population lives on less than 2láp a day. Workers and peasants die in the streets either for lack of food or because they have been shot down by the police for protesting against their misery, whilst the food hoard ers, black marketeers and smugglers rake in fortunes. Oiling the palms of Congress politicians, police officials and civil servants ensures that they are not touched, Corruption has become a wav of life in india In this siruation the Indian. Com munist parties have shown their total bankruptcy. The CPI-the propitalism's harvest

page 7 of the scan

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