English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.41, July 2020
The Second Wave of the COVID-19 Counterrevolution
On the ruling class strategy in the current conjuncture, its inner contradictions and the perspectives of the workers and popular resistance
A Pamphlet by Michael Pröbsting, International Secretary of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 20 July 2020, www.thecommunists.net
Contents
Introduction
The localized version of Lockdown policy is spreading
New information concerning severity (or not so severity) of the pandemic
Telling figures for Europe, Sweden and Ischgl
The worst pandemic in Africa? Really?
Capitalism and care homes as deadly traps for old people
The real nature of the ruling class bonapartist offensive under the cover of COVID-19
Why is the ruling class opting for a local lockdown strategy?
Excurse: A crisis characteristic for the present period of capitalist decay
The nature and inner contradictions of the local lockdown strategy
Preparing for a new counter-revolutionary offensive
The Lockdown Left: a never ending embarrassment
The shameful example of the PSTU/LIT-CI
The imperialist aristocratism of the Lockdown Left
Building a Revolutionary World Party
Footnotes