https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/On-COVID-and-the-Plague-of-Capital https://internationalviewpoint.org/On-COVID-and-the-Plague-of-Capital 2021-03-06T11:48:38Z text/html en Graham Christensen, Meleiza Figueroa, Rob Wallace, Suzi Weissman United States (USA) Covid-19 Pandemic <p>“Industrial agriculture, habitat destruction, global commodity chains and the travel network have set up this perfect storm of conditions, not just for COVID, but also for future pandemics.</p> <p>How can we get a wider systemic perspective on the current crisis? How vulnerable will we continue to be when we hopefully vanquish COVID-19?”</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV554-March-2021-" rel="directory">IV554 - March 2021</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-United-States-USA-+" rel="tag">United States (USA)</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Covid-19-Pandemic-+" rel="tag">Covid-19 Pandemic</a> https://internationalviewpoint.org/Capitalist-agriculture-and-Covid-19-a-deadly-combination https://internationalviewpoint.org/Capitalist-agriculture-and-Covid-19-a-deadly-combination 2020-07-19T07:25:07Z text/html en Rob Wallace Ecology and the Environment Covid-19 Pandemic <p>A socialist biologist explains the tight links between new viruses, industrial food production, and the profitability of multinational corporations.</p> <p>The new coronavirus is keeping the world in a state of shock. But instead of fighting the structural causes of the pandemic, the government is focusing on emergency measures.</p> <p>Yaak Pabst, for the German socialist magazine Marx21, spoke to evolutionary biologist Rob Wallace, author of <i>Big Farms Make Big Flu</i> (Monthly Review Press, 2016) , about the dangers of Covid-19 and the responsibility of agribusiness and sustainable solutions to combat infectious diseases.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV546-July-2020-" rel="directory">IV546 - July 2020</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Ecology-and-the-Environment-+" rel="tag">Ecology and the Environment</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Covid-19-Pandemic-+" rel="tag">Covid-19 Pandemic</a>