Bob Geldof and keeping people alive

 

A 40th anniversary version of the Band Aid song ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ has been released to celebrate, as promoter Bob Geldof says, ‘keeping millions of people alive’.

This says everything. In a world with the capacity to feed the global population several times over and give everyone a decent comfortable life, capitalism’s system of producing food (and everything else) for profit means that we’re stuck where we were 40 years ago – ‘keeping people alive’ (with of course many not being kept alive).

Only a society of free access to all goods and services can solve hunger permanently, and end the need for charity of all kinds. Otherwise we’ll be stuck here forever.

https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/