By MYA SHONE “We, at the World Health Organization [WHO] think that the world is now in the greatest possible danger of a pandemic,” stated Dr. Takeshi Kasai, the WHO’s Western Pacific Regional Director on Feb. 23, 2005 at a three-day Avian Bird Flu Conference in Ho Chi Minh City. The Avian Bird Flu – H5N1, the WHO concluded, was much more lethal than the strain found in Hong Kong in 1997. “There is an increasing risk of the spread of the avian flu influenza,” Dr. Kasai warned, [...]

Statement by the Organising Committee for the Reconstitution of the Fourth International (OCRFI)   The failed capitalist system and the governments that serve its interests: they are guilty and responsible for the growth of the coronavirus pandemic! At the time of writing, no-one can predict the inevitably disastrous outcome of the coronavirus pandemic that is threatening the lives of millions of men, women and children around the world. On the other hand, the conditions that have allowed [...]

Organizing Committee for the Reconstitution of the Fourth International Newsletter No. 14 (New Series) – March 12, 2020 – corqi.ocrfi@gmail.com               – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – What problems are posed for the working class and for the labor movement by the COVID-19 pandemic? And what conclusions can be drawn for the [...]