'FEED THE has become the fastest selling piece of plastic of all time. Every avbailable record press in Europe is stamping out this nausiating guilttrip that parades itself as music.
Purporting to be al to ing someting practical' relieve the tamine Ethiopia, this record has tapped Christmas market with a huge media LVOC.
Over a century ago Marx explained how the capitalist system masks the basic inequalities that its own social system produces. He also pointed out that the dominant ideas in society are those of the ruling class.
,They present the famine as disaster, exaccerbated by a lack of adequate 'aid'. there is no absolute shortage ot tood in the world The multinational agrobusiness corporations produce cash crops such as sugar, coffee and cotton, rather than staple foods like wheat and rice.
Food is produced and distributed according to wio cal pay not on the basis of who is in need.
Reviewed by Grant Keir The idea that famine is caused by natural disasters such as droughts is simDiy not true. Just look at the food mountains the USA and Europe, built up to ensure that food sells at a profit.
The artists who recorded this song work in an industry which produces 1l lusions for millions of DOle DOlL ev lavt fallen for the very illusions temselves help create.
During the miners' this record -the OI the liberal outrage about Ethiopia -serves as a diversion from the battle against the Tory government.
It is not surprising that records produced in sup-