Today the colour line/ is the power line/ is the poverty line
   Racism and imperialism work in tandem
   And poverty is their handmaiden
   Those who are poor and powerless to break out of their poverty
   Are also those who by and large are non-white, non-western, third world
   Poverty and powerlessness are intertwined in color, in race
   Discrimination and exploitation feed into each other today, under global capitalism
   We are back to primitive accumulation - plunder on a world scale
   Only this time, the pillage is accompanied by aid, sustained by expert advice and underpinned by programmes and polices that perpetuate dependency
   The IMF, the World Bank, Structural adjustment programmes
   General agreement on tariffs and trade-gatt
   Are just a few of the organizations, schemes, projects
   Which under the guise of developing the third world. Plunder it
   Trade agreements and commodity price fixing, patients and intellectual rights
   They lock them into paralytic dependency
   There is no such thing as illegal immigrants, only illegal governments
   Today, the colour line/ is the power line/ is the poverty line