The Profit System's Awful Cost

The development of capitalism grows at breakneck speed in China, but at a terrible human cost. 'Between 350,000 and 500,000 Chinese die prematurely each year because of the   country's disastrous air pollution, says China's former health minister. The equivalent of the population of Bristol dies each year in China because of   lethal air pollution, according to Chen Zhu, who was the country's Health minister until last year.' (Daily Telegraph, 7 January) In the mindless drive for bigger and bigger profits for the owning class, the working class have to pay, in ill health and premature death. RD