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Capitalism is failing.

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Millions of us can’t pay our rent, buy groceries[br]or get the tests or treatment we need.

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Medical facilities are underfunded and overwhelmed.

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Those of us who still have jobs must risk[br]our lives for each paycheck.

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Prisons and detention centers have become[br]COVID-19 death camps packed with demographics

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deemed expendable.

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Factories, warehouses and meat processing[br]plants have become sites of active contagion,

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presenting the virus an opportunity to hitchhike[br]on corporate supply lines.

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Under these conditions, capitalists are demanding[br]a return to business as usual

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while governments introduce even more[br]surveillance and control.

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It’s never been clearer that this system[br]prioritizes profits over human life.

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As politicians conjure [br]trillions of dollars out of thin air

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and massive factories [br]are repurposed on a whim,

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it’s obvious that the problem isn’t scarcity.

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It’s distribution.

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Rather than petitioning for better management,[br]we need to take things into our own hands.

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The greatest power we have is our ability[br]to refuse to keep this system running.

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All around the world, people are starting[br]to learn how to do this.

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Workers are walking off the job.

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Prisoners are organizing hunger strikes, rioting[br]and launching daring escapes.

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Millions of tenants are withholding their[br]rent, in a collective action that could become

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the first global rent strike in history.

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Let’s use May Day to take stock of the historic[br]moment we find ourselves in, and redouble

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our efforts in the weeks and months to come.

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Help those in need.

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Defend the unemployed, front-line workers,[br]health care workers, prisoners

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and everyone threatened with eviction.

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Organize and fight like there’s no tomorrow.

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Nothing is going back to normal.