There are two sides to this war. One is the war among imperial powers. The other is the war between the global capitalist class and the global working class. Both are heating up.
Yet another surge of COVID-19 has people wondering if this pandemic will ever end. It cannot end as long as disease is structured into the global chain of production. Until that changes, community lockdowns, vaccines, and travel restrictions can only slow viral spread, giving new variants time to emerge.
The push for mandatory vaccination has revealed a class conflict between those who accept capitalists having more power over workers and those who oppose this.
For centuries, people have known how to eradicate infectious disease: stop person-to-person transmission. Unable to solve this basic problem, the capitalist class are abandoning us to needless mass death and disease for the foreseeable future.
There are no ‘social determinants of health’ under capitalism. Nothing about this society generates health for people or their environments.
Inequality, racism, sexism – these social sources of sickness helped to build the wealth of nations, and they continue to build and maintain that wealth, despite the tremendous suffering that results.
Socialism is the Best Medicine