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The Wonderful World of Bono — Far East

It is an incredible fact that 98 per cent of the population of the Far East is engaged in the manufacture of goods for the Western markets which represent the greedily-dribbling mouth of globalisation.

Children, some as young as six months, work 23 hours a day, seven days a week, hand-stitching expensive trainers for the bloated, brand-obsessed teenagers of Europe and the US. If they're lucky, they might earn 2p a month, and from that they are expected to support their polio-crippled elderly parents.

This child slavery must stop, and it must stop now. Except in the Indonesian CD factory where my own records are pressed, for a world without music would be a very dark place indeed.

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