Colour Line-Asian Dub Foundation

[ti:Colour Line] [ar:Asian Dub Foundation] [al:Community Music] [by:] [offset:0] [00:02.42]Today the Colour Line/Is the Power Line/Is the Poverty Line [00:11.31] [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