“If the festivals return to business as usual in 2021, complete with the same bad bosses, lousy wages and illegal working practices, with corners cut and conditions worsened in a mad drive for profit to make up for the losses faced this year, all efforts made to help them now will ring hollow.”
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The coronavirus pandemic is the latest and perhaps most significant shock to an already unstable global order, writes David Jamieson
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“International solidarity is still something extremely important among the revolutionary governments in Latin America, and not just because it is an act of aid or charity, but also of survival.”
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“Profiteering is making the market more fragile, and exposing the profound weaknesses that have been bred into the economy by recent trends.”
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“The president and his advisers are debating whether it is worth infecting and killing larger numbers of people in order to keep as much of the economy going as possible, and therefore minimise the catastrophic damage to both profits and the wider integrity of the system.”