Colour Line-Asian Dub Foundation

[00:02.42]Today, the Colour Line/Is the Power Line/Is the Poverty Line [00:40.20]Racism and imperialism work in tandem [00:44.01]And poverty is their handmaiden [00:46.72] [01:03.00]Those who are poor and powerless to break out of their poverty [01:06.95]Are also those who by and large are non-white, non-western, third world [01:11.52]Poverty and powerlessness are interwined in colour, in race [01:17.66]Discrimination and exploitation feed into each other today [01:22.37]Under global capitalism... [01:25.19] [01:36.86]We are back to primitive accumulation - plunder on a world scale [01:42.78]Only this time, the pillage is accompanied by aid, sustained by expert [01:48.15]advice and underpinned by programmes and policies that perpetuate dependency [01:54.14]The IMF, The World Bank, Structural Adjustment Programmes [01:59.57]General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade - GATT, [02:02.87]are just a few of the organisations, schemes, projects [02:06.80]which under the guise of developing the third world, plunder it. [02:24.87] [02:27.96]Trade agreements and commodity price-fixing, patents and [02:32.84]intellectual property rights [02:35.15]They lock them into paralytic dependency [02:46.10] [03:07.82]There's no such thing as illegal immigrants, only illegal [03:11.08]governments... [03:17.98]Black is not just the colour of our skins [03:25.78]It's the colour of our politics... [03:28.90]There's no such thing as illegal immigrants, only illegal [03:31.46]governments... [03:41.83]Today, the colour line/is the power line/is the poverty line