Adopt agricultural policies that replace food production with cash crops sought by foreign corporations for the commodities market. Temporary and part-time work in the United States accounts for over 50 percent of employment without benefits or pensions. We are aware that President Clinton s proposal produced widespread opposition among trade unionists and Black activists. We know that workers in the United States and especially African American activists reject these plans to plunder and oppress the people of Africa. Over 20 percent of African GNP services the debt a debt already repaid many times over.
Compound interest weighs down every country with even greater obligation than that already repaid.
In addition, future debt payments are not to be cancelled but are allowed to reach five percent annually of export earnings. Trade unions are expected to assume responsibility for corporate profit and to participate in the assault upon worker living standards. In essence, the independence of trade unions is to be compromised fatally as they are called upon to police workers on behalf of the bosses, dissolving the ability of workers to defend their wages, benefits and all the gains of past struggles. These two institutions subsidize U.S. corporations and their investments overseas. In short, corporations will determine how, where and when funds are invested.