Communists of Catalonia
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Communists against COVID-19
International Relations Secretariat
The COVID-19 crisis, its immediate dimension of health alarm, and the subsequent economic and social crisis that it is causing, accelerates perceptions and evidence that the stage of neoliberal globalization that capitalism is developing has come into contradiction with existence itself of human life on the planet. We already had previous signs of alarm, in fact, this is not the first health crisis to happen. On the Asian and African continents there had been worrisome episodes derived from surprising mutations of viruses that passed from animals to humans, as a result of the changes produced in ecosystems that in previous decades maintained precarious balances, but that in recent times climate change and the various alterations that it causes, had destabilized them in definitive ways. It seems the difference is that COVID-19 has gone the other way, from Asia to Europe and America. Western governments maintain a strategic preparation to deal with bacteriological attacks but not with mutations of the characteristics of COVID-19, in fact in the same 2018-19 National Security documents of Spain, it is literally stated that a possible crisis or a viral pandemic can only occur in remote geographical places, so we were prepared to deal with the spread of smallpox but we had no idea about COVID-19. Climate change is altering and will change even more radically in the coming years the balance of life on the planet, and within this life there is Homo Sapiens. In fact, the rise in temperature and sea levels (to name just two of the changes underway) will cause severe economic impacts, will accelerate processes of desertification, flooding and other radical climatic phenomena, reinforcing the already growing migration of hundreds of millions of people. The crisis we’re facing, both health, economic and social, has not been a matter of bad luck, something inevitable that justifies cuts and losses of rights. The
