The reality of capitalism and imperialist rivalry is already hampering any such investigation as the geopolitical interests of the US and China come into conflict.
Socialists fight for a healthcare system and a pharmaceutical industry that is taken out of the hands of private business and is controlled and organised by those who really need it: working class people and the poor!
A move toward deglobalization has meant the narrow interests of national capitalist classes have taken precedence over a globally coordinated response to the pandemic...
This is an edited version of a speech given by Peter Chan of chinaworker.info to the ISA's Virtual Marxist University in July 2020, which is now publ...
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