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Unity key to overcome unemployment

THE current economic crisis reflects an inability of the bourgeois class forces to find a resolution to the systemic and deep existential crisis of the capitalist system.

The Covid-19 pandemic has worsened an already bad situation. This economic crisis is primarily borne out of contradictions of capitalism, in which production is social and the fruits of labour are appropriated privately by a handful of people.

We are witnessing not just the concentration of capital and wealth in the

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