The decisions of both Joe Biden and Boris Johnson in recent days will ensure the Covid death toll will go far higher. Extending the pandemic allows the ruling class offensive to continue. It is the centrepiece of government policy. So the struggle will be a prolonged one.
Efforts to pass the Build Back Better plan have been upended due to the anti-worker intransigence of the Democratic Party’s right wing and the blundering weakness of its leadership.
Repeated broken promises and betrayals will not drive people to the polls in 2022.
Marx designated the difference between what he termed “political emancipation” and “human emancipation” – between purely formal equality and rights in politics and the fundamental inequality and lack of rights in the real world. This classically sets out the reality of Western parliamentary democracy.
Under the guise of promoting “democracy” and “human rights,” the U.S. is concealing the real aims of this summit, which is to divide the world and recruit new allies to join in with the dangerous U.S. offensive against China.
The march is just another episode in a more comprehensive strategy. Behind the “non-violent march” mantra is the long shadow of the life-long reactionaries who dream of ending the Cuban Revolution no later than 15 November. Washington is lubricating the route plan of the protest with threats and dollars.
The country-by-country league table from the latest Carbon Change Performance Index, which covers 64 countries responsible for 92% of global greenhouse gas emissions, shows that the US is at 55 – 9th worst.
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