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The congress recognized that the coronavirus pandemic will go down in history as a “trigger event,” not unlike the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in 1914, which sparked World War I. The assassination accelerated inflammable historical processes that had been building up over a protracted period. Today, the COVID-19 pandemic is creating conditions for an immense intensification of the class struggle on a world scale. As the resolution states: “The working class is confronted with a crisis for which there is no progressive solution under capitalism, based on the division of the world into antagonistic nation-states competing for global dominance of markets and resources, and the control of society’s means of production by a financial oligarchy whose obscene wealth depends upon the brutal exploitation of the mass of the population.”
