The pandemic makes clear that useful vaccines only come about as a side effect of making profit. It is time to seize the pharmaceutical companies and unleash their full potential to fight illness and promote wellness.
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Covid-19: The Endgame?
The working class suffers miserably under the Covid-19 pandemic. But in record time, we begin mass immunization! Is this the endgame? Despite an invaluable scientific tool, class relations threaten a second wave deadlier than the first, a botched vaccine rollout, and Sars-CoV-2 variants that might just undermine vaccination altogether.
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Geometric composition with factory landscape. Giorgio de Chirico.
Contradictions in Capitalism — For-profit Agribusiness Threatens Everything
Do pandemics emerge simply by chance? Arguing from a eco-socialist perspective, we instead highlight how the capitalist system inevitably leads to the vertically-integrated and globalized agribusiness model that serves as a breeding ground for new pandemics.
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