Mehring Books is proud to announce that Volume 1 of COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic is now available for order as an ePub.
COVID, Capitalism and Class War is the definitive scientific, social, and political account of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on investigative reports, interviews with scientists and workers, and historical analysis, COVID, Capitalism, and Class War presents a Marxist explanation for the social catastrophe of the pandemic. This book is a damning and irrefutable indictment of global capitalism and the murderous policies pursued by the ruling elites around the world.
Evan Blake wrote in the introduction to the book, “The analyses of events as they were unfolding were extraordinarily prescient. The great advantage of the editors and writers of the World Socialist Web Site—published by the International Committee of the Fourth International—was that they were guided by a perspective deeply informed by history and a Marxist-Trotskyist understanding of the conflict between private economic interests and the welfare of the public in modern capitalist society. On this foundation, the WSWS identified the pandemic not simply as a medical event or a biological phenomenon, but primarily as a social and political crisis of global dimensions.”
COVID, Capitalism, and Class War is essential reading for everyone looking to understand the pandemic and its immense political implications.
- Chapter 1: Initial outbreak and global spread of COVID-19
- Chapter 2: The working class forces global lockdowns
- Chapter 3: Ruling classes internationally exploit the crisis
- Chapter 4: The back-to-work campaign
- Chapter 5: May Day 2020 and the deepening back-to-work campaign
- Chapter 6: The pandemic and escalating class conflict
- Chapter 7: The Sixth National Congress of the SEP (US)
- Chapter 8: The global struggle against school reopenings
- Chapter 9: “Herd immunity”: A policy of social murder
- Chapter 10: Capitalism’s winter of death
- PLUS three supplementary chapters: The Cover-ups; Vaccine profiteering and nationalism; Science and pseudoscience
