SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

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Socialist Action No. 55, 27 April 1984 · p. 8 of the scan · 339 words

The scan: 055-apr-27-1984-SA-UK.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 8 of the scan

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"The Mexican economic and social landscape meanwhile looks as though swept through of firms going bankrupt every month... Unemploy is reckoned to have jumped trom 8 pe: cent ie around 13 per cent OI economy in which underemployment anyway probably stands at around 45 This in a country where a motor mechanic earning $12 a month is considered emploved' '. (Economist, The IMF may not break peoples' arms or measure them up for concrete But its policies are literalunderdevelored economy kills people icc early to say whether Nori succeed in making ine Scuther masses foot the bill. But ha: e aiready imparted a further deflationary twist to the world exacerbated tensions in Latin America. And they will continue to do so That last point is really what this piece is about. The international debt crisis is best seen as an example of how problems in the metropolitan heartlands of capitalism can have their mes: politically explosive effects Harrison will be writing regular articies jor Socialist Action.

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