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LONDON AGGREGATE: 9 Nov, a ran mets or at ton Alliance are leading the SOCIALIST campaign to stop Carter enrolling the youth into the army. In the '60s and "70s they helped build the demonstrations against the Vietnam war.
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EVERY the spends million dollars on military activities.
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Some people think that this is insufficient the government States, for example. Within the next Washington plans to double the story goes that tel is necessary to protect the free world from the socialism and the like, and that the US and Western Dowers ar makıne a cred coccer order lefend freedom not just the developed in the third COuALLICS oul That argument is about as reliable that the War was une war lo stop all wars.
The evidence is that military spending, especialUS, increases the exploitation of the third world. It in creases poverty there and increases despotic régimes.
A specific example is oil wiich. weare onentoda precious commodity, not to e wasted, much needed b Cuties something which should be everywhere, preserved.
Try telling that to the US military, year considerably more than South Asia Now sometimes that third countries benefit ins. • Intal, tor instalice, ble aluminium which Tonnes the US military uses each veal for less export balance those third world countries producing Bul as aly balancer would confirm, far more beneficial to the countries if they kept Luelt laW processed them and exfinished products.
Instead, the tendency is for these e third world countries to buy back the pro.
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materials were . originally theirs of finished SULL Well, for a start there's, ye? aloe invo ve you've guessed maments American arms sales in 1980 are expected to top $14,500m. Most of these weapons are acquired by third world countries. The in question • often highly sophisticated ones the military countes • cemaio leen TrOm ineir governments as the price to be paid for their to the existing Thated retimes in rye dominated therefore, WOrk product of of tries to manage their affairs mould it 1s? consequence of the arms market presided over by the developed countries Then there is the ques tion development aid given to the third world This aid in itself is often third huge contrick, given to countries which then expect use the money i to buy back commodities from luc donor sindustries the United Nations stressed in a recent report, Economic the Arms Race LIOS naustranse the military rises the development aid Translated means that States machine as on development aid.
And that just about sums up the priorities of the UNA alutes people in India can't eat