French Communist Party
Let’s Build a France & a world in common
For several months now, the whole world has 41 been hit by a pandemic that has simultaneously brought about a major health crisis - more than a million deaths and nearly 30 million people already infected by the virus - and underscored the structural crisis of ruinous capitalism, with its exploitive and predatory strategies on the economic, social and environmental levels that have considerably worsened injustice and inequality throughout the world, within nations and on the regional scale. The 2007-2008 financial crisis, characterised by the massive intervention of States to preserve the interests of capital, was an important moment in the offensive waged by dominant capitalist powers to impose their destructive dogmas: maximum profitability for capital to the detriment of labour, ever
more reduced and restricted; constant diminishment of public spending and privatisation of public services; erosion of social protection; lowered wages; growing inequality between women and men under a reinforced patriarchy. Thus the systemic crisis laid the foundations for an acceleration of the factors that gave rise to the current health crisis, but not only that. In France, the pandemic crisis highlighted the failings of a health care system rendered inadequate by the dismantlement of public services and the disregard of the right to dignified, well-paid work. The main social advances that the French people inherited from the Resistance movement, Social Security and the pension system, are now endangered. At the same time, other characteristics of the crisis facing today’s system are a result of the sharpening contradictions between the imperialist powers under the under the aegis of the United States: outbreak of new wars of aggression, multiplication of conflict zones, questioning of the principles of the
