Saturday, July 11, 2020
Joblessness soars as COVID-19 pandemic accelerates across US
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/10/pand-j10.html
By Bryan Dyne
10 July 2020
The past week saw a marked acceleration of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States. There were more than 375,000 coronavirus cases reported in the United States during the last seven days, more than the number of cases reported in February, March and the first week of April combined. The daily official number of deaths, which had been decreasing in the country to an average of just above 500 each day, shot up to more than 800 for the past three days.
As a result, there are now 3.2 million people that have been infected by the pandemic virus and more than 135,000 that have died. While 1.4 million have recovered, another 1.8 million people currently have active cases of COVID-19, half a million more than a month ago. Worldwide, there are more than 12.3 million total confirmed coronavirus cases and at least 556,000 deaths.
There were also another 1.3 million people who filed for unemployment for the first time last week, the 15th week in a row that new unemployment claims have been above 1 million and more than six times the number who newly filed this week last year. In addition, 18.1 million people placed continuing claims, more than 10 times those of a year ago.
The unemployment figures, moreover, only capture about half of those threatened with economic destitution in the wake of the shutdowns and layoffs in March and April in response to the pandemic. More than 1 million people filed claims last week under the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, which provides benefits to those who are self-employed, and thus can’t get normal unemployment benefits, or who are unable to work for COVID-19 related reasons.
The total number of people receiving this second type of assistance is 14.4 million, bringing the total number of people currently getting aid during the pandemic to 32.5 million. If the number of people receiving state and federal aid were a state, that state would be more populous than Texas.
Alongside the historically high unemployment figures, the National Bureau of Economic Research issued a paper noting that two-thirds of the workers currently receiving benefits are getting more money than they would be on the job. A fifth of them are currently getting double their salary. While the paper argues for a reduction of benefits or their elimination, it ignores the fact that its findings ultimately underscore the social crisis that had existed in the United States even before the pandemic.
Amid the ongoing public health and economic crises, there are increasing calls from medical professionals to again shut down states with growing outbreaks. Infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci noted yesterday in an interview on FiveThirtyEight that four states—Arizona, California, Florida and Texas—currently account for about half of the new infections in the country. He advocated at least pausing the reopenings in those states, as well as closing enclosed areas where large numbers of people gather, such as bars.
Dr. Ali Khan, a former health official at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was more direct in his comments. He told CNN, “If you’re not doing the … things we’ve talked about in the past to get this outbreak under control, starting with test and trace … your only option is to shut down.”
These warnings echo those that have been issued by the World Health Organization since countries around the world began to emerge from lockdown in late April. They noted then that lockdowns are only a temporary measure, one designed to allow public health systems to recover from the shock of a surge of infections, as well as set up mass testing and contact tracing capabilities.
While some states have been able to recover from their record highs of daily infections and deaths, such as New York, others have continued to see a steady rise in cases. California, for example, had a stay-at-home order in effect since March 19, but allowed many types of businesses to partially reopen in May. This included retail stores, restaurants and recreational facilities, as well as factories and other manufacturing plants.
The state’s new case numbers, however, have shot up in the past month. Unlike New York, which has had a sharp decline in daily cases, California’s trend has been only flat or upward. It has seen a 275 percent increase in its number of new cases since May 25 and now reports more new cases each day than any state except Texas and Florida. California also leads the nation in daily deaths. Wednesday it reported 150 fatalities and yesterday at least 135.
In the aftermath of Wednesday’s death count, Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer warned, “Our cases are rising. The rate of infection is increasing. And the number of hospitalizations are up. And today, we’re even seeing a small increase in the number of deaths.” She was also forced to admit, “Tragically, we do expect that more of our loved ones and neighbors may die of COVID-19 in the coming weeks with all of the increases we’re seeing with hospitalizations.”
The city has again begun to limit testing. While testing had become more widespread in May and parts of June, the growth in cases has forced Los Angeles to allow coronavirus testing only for those showing symptoms or working in an enclosed and crowded area, and for those who have come in contact with another person confirmed to have the virus. At the same time, local officials have estimated that 1 in 140 people living in LA County are unknowingly infected with the virus and are now far less likely to be tested.
Houston, Texas faces a similar situation. There are more than 40,000 cases just in Harris County, which includes Houston. As cases spiral upward, Houston also faces inundated hospitals and testing shortages. Staffing and bed shortages at the Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital last Sunday meant that at least 10 coronavirus patients who needed intensive care were forced to wait in the hospital’s emergency room pending transfer to other area hospitals. The growing crisis forced Mayor Sylvester Turner to cancel the upcoming in-person convention of the Texas Republican Party.
At the same time, paramedics for the city are reporting an increasing number of people dying at home before they can receive hospital care. While many of the fatalities are no doubt from the coronavirus, it is also likely that many have died of a heart attack, stroke or other sudden and dangerous medical condition that was not treated as a result of the overflowing hospitals during the pandemic.
Spain imposes regional lockdowns amid resurgence of COVID-19
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/10/spai-j10.html
By Alice Summers
10 July 2020
Several regions in Spain have re-imposed partial lockdown measures as coronavirus cases begin to rise once again.
Since 21 June, when the Podemos-Socialist Party (PSOE) government declared the end of measures to tackle the virus and the start of the “new normal”, there have been over 100 coronavirus outbreaks, of which 73 are still active, according to Health Minister Salvador Illa. An “outbreak” is defined as a cluster of three or more linked cases in a single area.
As of yesterday, 28,401 people are confirmed to have died from coronavirus in Spain with 253,056 confirmed infections, including five new deaths and 241 new cases in the last 24 hours. This itself is an undercount of the deaths caused by COVID-19, as excess deaths between March and May alone during the pandemic were over 48,000.
Segrià, a county in the west of Catalonia, which encompasses the city of Lleida and has a population of around 200,000 people, re-imposed limited lockdown measures on Saturday, after a surge of cases was reported. On Monday, health officials for Lleida province revealed that contagion rates in Segrià were 20 times that of Catalonia as a whole.
Over 500 new cases of coronavirus were detected in Segrià in the week preceding the imposition of lockdown measures, up from 208 cases the previous week.
Residents of Segrià will not be able to leave the county for two weeks and no one from outside the region will be allowed to enter—with the exception of those who need to for work. No restrictions have been placed on businesses, which continue to operate as normal, forcing their employees to travel to workplaces and work in often unsafe conditions. Wearing a face mask was made compulsory in Catalonia in all public places from yesterday.
Those who break the renewed confinement measures will be fined, with lockdown rules enforced by 200 members of the Catalan police, the Mossos d'Esquadra, at 25 checkpoints across Segrià.
The outbreak has been linked to temporary harvest workers in the area, with 11 of the 15 clusters reported in Segrià associated with fruit-picking companies. The increased economic activity in the area since the Podemos-PSOE government’s “back-to-work” orders, along with the arrival of thousands of temporary workers, saw the accumulated incidence of COVID-19 in Segrià rise to more than 175 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
Around 30,000 temporary workers arrive in the region during the fruit-harvesting season, including many undocumented migrant workers labouring in appalling conditions for minimal pay, and often without proper accommodation.
Fernando García Benavides, professor of Public Health at the University of Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and former president of the Spanish Society of Epidemiology, explained that the horrendous conditions facing migrant workers in fruit-picking and packing companies provide a perfect breeding ground for the spread of coronavirus.
“It is inside [these] companies that there is the riskiest contact,” he said. “The virus is spreading; these are young people who aren’t getting ill from the virus and are passing on the infection. The working environment for these people, if you can call it that, is especially precarious; they work in the fields, in warehouses packaging the fruit and they live on the streets.”
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Philip Alston, who visited Spain in January and February this year, described conditions in camps for temporary fruit-picking workers as “worse than [in] a refugee camp, without water or electricity. The word that is most often heard is ‘abandonment’.”
In May, there was a massive outpouring of public anger after photos and videos emerged of around 200 temporary migrant workers, who had travelled to Lleida to find fruit-harvesting work, sleeping rough in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions in the streets of the historic centre of the city. With local authorities doing nothing to house the workers, Monacan footballer Keita Baldé—who is of Senegalese heritage like many of the migrant fruit-pickers—paid for hotels in the city to provide accommodation for the migrant workers.
On 3 July, the Catalan regional government set up a temporary field hospital in Lleida to assist permanent hospitals with a possible influx of coronavirus patients. Eighty-two people remain hospitalised with coronavirus in Lleida, of whom 11 are currently in Intensive Care Units. Regional authorities in Catalonia have reportedly also begun drafting volunteers from the public health care system to work at the temporary hospital.
While coronavirus cases are rising, the Podemos-PSOE government is rejecting a coordinated response, leaving regional authorities to manage and control local coronavirus outbreaks since Spain finally ended confinement measures on June 21. Despite the presence in government of Podemos, a “left populist” party linked to the Syriza party in Greece and Bernie Sanders in the United States, Madrid is in the final analysis pursuing the same policy as Washington and the other major European capitals.
Forced to impose a lockdown in March by a pan-European wave of strikes, Madrid is pushing workers back to work to produce profits for the financial aristocracy. The €1.35 trillion European Central Bank (ECB) bailout and state bailout packages are going overwhelmingly to pay off the banks and finance mass sackings and corporate restructuring. The PSOE, Podemos and affiliated unions are determined that deconfinement and European Union (EU) austerity will continue and that no measure is taken against COVID-19 that would interfere with corporate profits.
“We have taken necessary, adequate and valiant measures, we must see if they have an impact,” Illa said. Stressing that “there will continue to be outbreaks” and demanding that Spaniards “learn to live with the virus until there is a vaccine or a treatment,” he ruled out any return to a nationwide lockdown: “Currently there are no plans to adopt such a measure.”
COVID-19 is continuing to spread rapidly in regions across Spain, however. On 5 July, the county of A Mariña, in the north-western region of Galicia, was also forced to impose renewed confinement measures. Residents and other individuals will be prohibited from entering or leaving the area, which has a population of 71,000, until Saturday, the day before Galicia is set to hold regional elections.
The outbreak in A Mariña is centred on restaurants and bars in the municipalities of Burela and Xove, with around half a dozen venues having to close for two weeks after members of their staff tested positive for COVID-19.
As of Thursday, there were 165 active coronavirus cases in A Mariña, an increase of 21 cases on the previous day. The region of Galicia was the first to enter the “new normal” in Spain, lifting all restrictions on 15 June.
In the northern region of Aragón, bordering Catalonia, four counties — Cinca Medio, Bajo Cinca, La Litera and Caspe—were returned to “Phase 2” of the government’s deconfinement plan at the end of June, after COVID-19 outbreaks were detected in slaughterhouses and fruit and vegetable companies. “Phase 2” indicates that shops and indoor restaurants will be limited to 40 percent of their capacity, while wedding venues and places of worship must not be more than half full.
Residents in the four counties are advised to limit their movement and to maintain physical-distancing and hygiene measures, meeting in groups of no more than 15.
Two apartment blocks—one in Albacete in the central region of Castilla–La Mancha and one in Santander in the northern region of Cantabria—were also quarantined after outbreaks of coronavirus were detected. In Santander, around 80 people were isolated in their apartment block for 13 days after a cluster of 16 cases was found. In Albacete, around 20 people remain confined to their building after two outbreaks involving nine people were detected.
Quarantine measures at the two apartment blocks were enforced by national police.
The surge in cases is an indictment of the Podemos-PSOE government’s “new normal” policy, which has seen workers forced back to factories, offices and other workplaces without basic health and safety measures to protect them from the coronavirus. The new outbreaks are a direct result of this reopening agenda. Restaurants, bars, food-production companies, and other workplaces where physical-distancing measures are impossible are emerging as the centres of infection.
The average age of coronavirus patients has fallen by around 10 years in the last weeks, to 47 for men and 50 for women, indicating as younger, working-age people are infected.
According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), workers in Spain are among the most at risk of catching the virus. Nearly six in 10 (56 percent) workers carry out roles which put them at greater risk of infection in the workplace, the highest figure of the 24 countries analysed by the OECD. The average proportion of at-risk workers is 48 percent, the OECD said.
A recent seroprevalence study in Spain found that only about five percent of the population had COVID-19 antibodies. Thus, infections could spread rapidly through a population with little immunity now that preventive measures have been largely abandoned.
“This is going to kill us—not coronavirus, but how broken the health care system is”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/10/ilnu-j10.html
An Illinois nurse speaks out against corporate control of health care systems
By Jessica Goldstein
10 July 2020
Lauren, a nurse from Illinois, spoke to the World Socialist Web Site after being furloughed for speaking out against a hospital’s corporate policies that discriminated against low-income patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her name has been changed and former hospital withheld to protect her from further retaliation.
“I worked in a case management position at a hospital in the central Illinois area,” she said. “I’ve worked in health care since I was 17 years old. In college I was working as a certified nursing assistant (CNA) and a waitress. Some days I went without sleep because I had to work non-stop.
“I was furloughed for speaking out about the visitor policy during the COVID-19 pandemic,” she explained. The state of Illinois had put a number of restrictions in place on the number of visitors and circumstances in which patients at hospitals could be allowed visitors. “The economic stress in central Illinois has gotten really bad, and a lot of the lower-income patients who were going through a difficult period in their treatment couldn’t have visitors when they needed them most.
“But if you knew the CEO—who makes a salary of over $1 million per year—you could have visitors. It’s called a VIP policy, and basically every hospital has one.
“I’m not alone in speaking out. There are nurses being furloughed all across central Illinois and the hospitals are firing the nurses who are speaking up.
“I’ve been writing to congresspeople in the state and speaking to them about it, but it’s not really going anywhere with them. I spoke to [Democratic] Senator Durbin about it, and he just said that he spoke with the CEO of the hospital, and that was all.
“There are some staff in the hospitals who are getting furloughed who make much less money than the nurses, and I feel for them. [Supplemental] unemployment is going to run out in a month, what are they going to do then? I remember the days living off of food stamps and hustling when I was growing up. It’s like treading water.
“The hospitals are making cuts because they’re not taking in revenue because other procedures have slowed down. At the last hospital I worked, they took away the nurses’ 401k, sick time, and made them take a 30 percent pay cut. How can these hospitals call us ‘heroes’ and then give us no benefits?
“It’s way worse in nursing homes. They are laying off nurses who got sick from COVID-19, and their revenue is down because people are afraid to be admitted to nursing homes because of the high death rate. All nursing homes are owned by big corporations, that is the problem.”
Both Democratic and Republican state officials, who are more concerned with serving the big business interests that they represent rather than the lives of millions of workers, criminally ignored warnings in December and January that the United States needed to prepare the medical system for the spread of the pandemic.
“When COVID-19 first hit the US in western states like Washington and California, the hospitals in Illinois were not ready by the time it took off in March. They knew cases were circulating in the US before, but hospital management did no preparatory work.
“We did get some new personal protective equipment [PPE] and supplies in advance, but not enough. We didn’t have enough N-95 respirators or PAPR [powered air purifying respirator] hoods. Nurses at the hospital where I worked were not fit-tested for N-95 masks, and even doctors were fit-tested too late.
“Floor nurses were told to wear procedural masks and only throw them away when they were visibly soiled, not between rooms, like we’re supposed to do normally. Another problem is that the Centers for Disease Control made a policy on re-using procedure masks without testing to see how effective those re-used masks were. When we learned that it was transmitted through the eyes as well we got goggles and eye protection that we had to re-use and share.
“Our ICU rooms were still just standard rooms, and not prepared for COVID-19 care. If we requested a test for a patient who we suspected to be sick with COVID-19, the hospital always came up with some reason to tell us ‘no.’ For example, they’d tell us the patient didn’t have enough symptoms, even if it was known that they’d traveled from a state with community spread like Washington.
“In the beginning, in March, no one could get tested. Then they started to test hospital staff. But the problem with testing even now is we don’t know how effective all the tests are because we don’t know at what point viral load is highest. You should get tested more than once because a test which comes back negative may not really be negative after a few days. But when I was working if you got a test and it came back negative, you weren’t tested again and quarantined, you came back to the hospital.
“When I looked at the pictures of hospitals treating COVID-19 in countries like China I could see how differently they were prepared. The staff wore full hazmat suits, and in the US I don’t know of any hospitals that have them.
“Some nurses and doctors in the US are wearing shower curtains, and there are companies I’ve heard of in the US that are making garments from shower curtain material-—but there hasn’t been enough testing done to really be sure that the kind of material is actually protective.”
Lauren contracted COVID-19 while working at the hospital, joining over 450,000 health care workers worldwide who have been infected with the disease.
“Over 30 nurses got COVID-19 at the hospital—out of the cases that were recorded. Long term, you’re not seeing the numbers of the support staff who get sick because they don’t usually tally them, but the support staff are just as exposed as we [frontline nurses and doctors]. Some of the staff who have the most exposure are the cleaning staff, they have no protection.
“COVID-19 has long-term effects. I still have trouble breathing when I’m walking upstairs. I have medical bills sitting on top of a bookshelf from when I was sick, that is where we are at as workers. I know where I got sick, at the hospital, but all of us need to know if the hospital is going to pay for these medical bills because it’s their responsibility.”
Lauren spoke out sharply against the astronomical growth of inequality since the pandemic began and the criminality of the corporate-controlled health care system.
“Insurance companies have been getting richer since this started. All the wealth now is filtering to the top, even in health care, and the differences are between who has money and who doesn’t. It’s for the dollar, not for patients. It’s not that so much money is spent on health care, it that it’s spent so inappropriately.
“The hospital management has always looked at cutting costs, and where they look to cut is patient care. We had never been fully staffed. At one hospital where I worked in cardiology I had 16 patients with one Licensed Practical Nurse. I was told not to fill out any reports to save time.”
Lauren described the physical and mental toll that corporate cost-cutting takes on health care workers. “Mentally you can feel like you’re failing every day. Some nurses cry every day—I don’t know one co-worker who wasn’t taking anti-depressant medications. There is a lot of staff turnover because the people who really care will burn out. I feel like going through COVID-19 we’re going to have PTSD.”
Similar to corporate policies in the auto industry and others, giant health care corporations have begun hiring temporary labor to replace full-time nurses for lower costs. “Newer people are coming in at the bottom, like traveling nurses, who come from temporary agencies. They pay a high hourly rate but they have no benefits. Because they are new at every hospital job, they might be good nurses but they’re not as well-trained in other aspects of the hospital they’re working at.”
She spoke in support of the strikes taking place around the world by health care workers demanding decent pay, benefits and an end to unsafe working conditions. “I think the strikes are great. I don’t know one nurse who doesn’t care about their patients. We want a safe number of patients and to make sure everyone has a mask who needs one. We just want to be treated like humans.”
Lauren pointed to the need for fundamental change in the way that health care is produced and distributed worldwide. “If we had socialized medicine this would not be happening. Somebody has to do something. This is going to kill us—not coronavirus, but how broken the health care system is. All of us need to get on the same page on how we handle health care and relationships around the world.”
Bath Iron Works expands strikebreaking operation as Maine shipyard walkout continues
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/10/bath-j10.html
By Shannon Jones
10 July 2020
The strike by 4,300 shipbuilders at the Bath Iron Works in Maine is continuing into its third week with a federal mediator meeting with the union Monday in an effort to end the walkout at the facility, which builds ships for the US Navy. The strike began June 22 over contract issues, with workers voting by 87 percent to reject demands by General Dynamics, the shipyard operator, for a big expansion of outside contract labor.
This week, Bath Ironworks said it would lay off several dozen non-striking workers from International Association of Machinists (IAM) Local S7 who work as surveyors and trade inspectors. At the same time that management is laying off these workers, it has announced plans to step up its strikebreaking operation by hiring hundreds more outside contractors. Management has been attempting to maintain production during the strike, using about 2,500 contractors along with non-striking members of other unions.
About 220 machinists belonging to Local S7 at the shipyard have been crossing the picket lines of the far larger Local S6, whose members are on strike. The IAM has not raised any objections to other IAM members continuing to work inside the shipyard alongside strikebreakers in the midst of the bitter strike. In fact, this scandalous situation would not be possible without the blessing of the national IAM leadership.
A statement issued by Bath Iron Works President Dirk Lesko said the layoffs were temporary and were the result of the disruption caused by the strike.
By all accounts, workers are receiving warm and generous support from the community. However, like in so many past struggles, the role of the IAM has been to isolate and wear down the resistance of workers to concessions.
The main fear of the IAM and the AFL-CIO labor federation is not that workers will be defeated and forced to take concessions, but that the strike will encourage broader resistance in the working class. This is particularly the case as outrage grows over the reckless return-to-work and return-to-school policies as the pandemic continues to rage.
The shipyard is some six months behind in the delivery of destroyers to the US Navy, even as the US steps up its provocations against China and Russia. The shipyard is currently building six Arleigh Burke-class destroyers along with a Zumwalt-class destroyer with each ship having a price tag of well over $1 billion.
Under management’s new contract proposal, the company will be given expanded powers to hire subcontractors while seniority rights will be undermined, with management able to assign jobs regardless of length of service. Workers also report that the company wants to increase medical insurance deductibles, offsetting a paltry three percent annual wage increase.
An electrician at the Bath Iron Works wrote on Facebook “Even the supervisors have had enough! I’ve spoken with some. Its upper management that has been and unless you fix it, WILL be the problem! No one is happy with your experienced workers being out but the contract you put forward was bad. Take out subcontractors and seniority! That's the first step.”
The last contract in 2015 contained a wage freeze and other concessions that management claimed would help secure additional work for the shipyard. While the company has fattened its profits off the massive increase in military spending and the corporate tax handouts enacted by the Trump administration, predictably nothing is going back to the workers. Instead, General Dynamics has used $2.4 billion of its $15.3 billion in profits since 2018 to buy back its own stock in order to inflate share values.
A total of six Bath shipyard workers have tested positive for COVID-19, with three reported new cases diagnosed since the start of the strike. Management has maintained operations throughout the pandemic on the grounds that warships are “critical infrastructure.”
Showing its utter distain for its employees, the company cut workers off their company-paid health insurance on June 30.
The strategy of the IAM has been directed entirely at appealing for support from the political establishment on the grounds that General Dynamics is undermining national security by refusing to negotiate a contract.
Several local Maine politicians as well as presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden have issued perfunctory and platonic statements of support for striking workers, or more specifically for a return to negotiations.
IAM President Robert Martinez Jr. also sent a letter to the Trump administration asking for the help of the White House in resolving the strike. In the letter, the IAM said it would be willing “to work with all partners in the fight to save these vitally important jobs. We respectfully ask you to join us in this effort. We ask that you start by sending a strong reminder to the company of its commitment to these workers to the American public, to our men and women in uniform, who rely on world class ships built by world class workers...”
The assertion by the IAM that it will work with all “partners”—i.e. corporate management—to “save” jobs leaves little doubt that the union is prepared to hand over more concessions in exchange for maintaining its franchise and ability to extract dues from workers. For four decades, the fight to “save jobs” has been the mantra of the trade union bureaucracy as it has bargained away gains won by workers over the course of countless bitter struggles. In the process, the unions oversaw the destruction of millions of jobs while workers’ incomes declined or stagnated and social inequality increased to unheard-of levels.
According to the website Indeed.com, some jobs at the Bath Iron Works pay as little as $12 an hour. It is one of the largest employers in Maine and has been in operation since the late 19th century. It was acquired by General Dynamics in 1995. It has built well over 100 destroyers, frigates, cruisers and other Navy combat vessels.
The last strike at the Bath Iron Works was in 2000 and lasted 55 days. Workers rejected two contract proposals supported by the union before accepting a contract that still fell far short of their demands by 65 percent. The main issue was changes to contract language relating to job classifications as well as the demand for annual wage increases of eight percent followed by seven percent and seven percent. A strike in 1985 lasted 99 days.
The World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Party urge Bath shipyard workers to establish a rank-and-file strike committee to take the conduct of their struggle out of the hands of the IAM. There is an urgent need to expand the struggle and mobilize support from workers across the region nationally and internationally behind their fight. This includes, teachers, transport workers, health care workers, autoworkers and other ship builders. No help will be forthcoming from the representatives of the two big-business parties. Workers must rely on their own strength, but this requires a break with the corporate-controlled unions and their political alliance with the Democrats and Republicans.
At the same time, US workers must unite with workers around the world to oppose the drive to war and to transform the military industrial complex into socially useful industries, as part of the socialist reorganization of economic and political life.
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