Communist Party of Mexico
The struggle of the Communist Parties to 83 transform current society into a better one, whilst being a perspective of the future, implies the betterment and vigilance of the working class’ current life in the face of war or any manifestation of barbarie, famine and impoverishment derived from the economic crises and epidemics. For this, the PCM decided to act to face the pandemic originated by the Covid-19 The PCM and the working class Virus, worsened by the conditions of capitalism, facing the economic and sanitary as the negative results until today (hundreds of of deaths and millions of infections) crisis thousands are in direct relation to the economic and social Ángel Chávez Mancilla, foundations of this system.
Director of El Comunista1,
Although the productive forces allow the production of enough wealth to satisfy the needs Alternate Member of the Politburo of the of the worldwide population in terms of food, CC of the Communist Party of México. housing, leisure, health, and to have protected the population in the health crisis, with guaranteed support to avoid infection and death, the existing contradiction between the productive forces and the relations of capitalist production prevent this from happening. It is the call to the working class of the world that relations based on capitalist property must change, they prevent that social production be at the disposal of those who create it. This, added to the economic crisis that wasn’t unleashed by the health crisis but was gestating based on the inherent contradictions of capitalism, but that together potentiated the difficulties of the conditions of the working class in each country and internationally. In the face of this panorama, The Communist Party of México resolved to develop work with the working class and social sectors signaling that the dynamic of the capitalist system prevents guaranteeing health and life for them. In this manner the immediate struggle was connected with the need to fight for socialism. We will proceed to present the experience of our Party in the confrontation with the measures taken by the socialdemocrat government of López Obrador in his administration of the sanitary and economic crisis that has had disastrous consequences. Mid-February the Mexican State informed of the first cases of Covid-19 in national territory, despite the sanitary alert that had been decreed in other countries, the mexican government did not take measures until the following month, “social distancing” being the main one and de1
El Comunista is the central Organ of the Communist Party of Mexico
