“Capitalism is incapable of responding to a crisis of this kind”

Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on April 11, 2020 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Apr 13, 2020)

Phakamile Hlubi-Majola, national spokesperson of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, talks about the economic impact of the lockdown in South Africa, the broken health system and the brutal evictions which continue despite a national moratorium.

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