4. The assassination of Arch-Duke Ferdinand vs. the Coronavirus.

9. Bills protecting state agents to use sexual violence. The decision of the WSWS to defend sexual violence by opposing #MeToo hashtag and defending the careers of intelligence agents.

13. attempts to ban socialism

14. independent political mobilization vs. dictatorship of the proletariat

the recognition of the failures of the ICFI from the split with the OCI and the failure of the 1968 revolution to the split within the WRP and the failure of the collapse of Stalinism to bring about a Trotskyist government.

15. virus policy= social darwinism= social warfare

16. concealed virus readiness plans.

17. elderly homes=killing fields

18. “use the pandemic” for wealth transfer from the poor to the rich.

19. ICFI Feb. 28 Statement: “In demanding that capitalist governments implement these emergency measures, the international working class does not abandon its fundamental aim: the ending of the capitalist system. Rather, the fight for emergency action will raise the consciousness of the working class, develop its understanding of the need for international class solidarity, and increase its political self-confidence.” [3]

No demands for an investigation into biological weapons or the genetic engineering of viruses. A major threat to security for the revolutionary movement.

20. The Financial Times Europe Editor Tony Barber: “It is in the nature of cataclysmic events, such as the pandemic, to accelerate and refashion historical developments that would have happened anyway. The first world war intensified turmoil in Russia, leading to the revolutions of 1917, and drove forward the emergence of the US as the 20th century’s leading global power… The pandemic and its economic fallout, unless brought under a measure of control, is sure to have similar large-scale consequences.” [4]

No discussion of the internal mechanics of the war, supporting the capitalist system through crisis, through world war. The triggering of the revolution, or the jamming up of the revolutionary process?