The COVID-19 crisis is exposing the limitations of global bodies like the UN and the WHO, trapped between the competing interests of US and Chinese imperialism. Like an umbrella full of holes, they’re useless precisely when they’re most needed.

A recent report estimates that half the world’s workforce will lose their livelihoods as a result of the pandemic. Capitalism is destroying people’s lives. We must fight for a system that works for the billions, not the billionaires.

In the weeks and months to come, the world could be facing “multiple famines of biblical proportions”. With war, poverty and now a pandemic spreading across the globe, recent predictions are showing that the worst-off are being hit harder than ever.