“The activity of the Communist and Workers’ Parties under the conditions of the pandemic and the capitalist crisis, for safeguarding the health and the rights of the popular strata, in the struggle to change society, for socialism. ”
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Paraguayan Communist Party
Paraguay and the possibilities for change
Introduction First, we salute the militants of the Communist and Workers’ Parties from all over the world, as well as the working class of the cities and the countryside. We would like to make a particular recognition to the health workers and to each woman, each man, who had (and has) to expose himself for labor reasons, to the contagion of the new coronavirus.With the enormous risk that the capitalist mode of production spreads on a global scale, imposing the commercialization of all social relationships and –thus- weakening the public health systems in the vast majority of countries. We dedicate our efforts to the millions of combatants for the free association of women and men, revolutionaries who fought, were persecuted, imprisoned, tortured, kidnapped, disappeared, and whose examples continue to underpin the socialist-communist project.This year we remember the 40th anniversary of the kidnapping and disappearance of comrades Antonio Maidana and Emilio Roa, victims of Operation Condor; 45 years of the kidnapping and disappearance of comrades Miguel ÁngelSoler, Octavio Rubén González Acosta and DerlisVillagra.We continue to fight for the freedom of the political prisoners of our country and the world, with the decision to overcome in a humanist way this enormous crisis of capitalism. As the document must be brief, we will not delve into descriptions of the structural - and therefore civilizational - crisis of the capitalist mode of production, although we will place elements to locate our country within this crisis and in the class struggle.
Context The global projections are not encouraging at all. On the part of the establishment Think Tanks, the estimates of the post-pandemic world economy show an increasing tendency to develop in the shape of an L, since the fall we have been experiencing would be followed by a slowdown in economic activity and the subsequent stagnation of the world economy. Let us remember that 2019 was already closing as the third consecutive year of global economic stagnation and the one with the lowest growth in a decade, all this, before the emergence of the health crisis derived from COVID-19. In June 2020, World Bank projections predicted a 5.2% drop in the world economy, while for the hegemonic economies a steep fall of the order of 7% is forecast, recalling that they had already been sustaining a drop in profitability of capital; while for Latin IB Special Edition
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