[economies is highly dependent on international trade, and…]
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economies is highly dependent on international trade, and every one of them does a large percentage of its exports within Western Europe - from 54% for Britain to 67% for West Germany. A fraying-apart of the EEC would be disastrous for them.
In Britain the crisis has been the occasion for a great deal of 792184 shameful rationalist rhetoric from Labo ur Party leaders The issue, however, is Britain . VS. the EEC, but the irrationality of capitalist agricul ture.
Socialists should be fighting for a restructuring of agricul ture based on the principles o a guaranteed livelihood for the small farmers and farm workers and production for the needs o the hungry of the world, rather than on fat profits for big capit. alist farmers and for agribusi ness.
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