"The hundreds of dead and missing are not the product of an uncontrolled nature. They are not the result of a fatality against which nothing can be done. We are not satisfied with the “meteorological” explanation, the liters of rain falling, the overflowing rivers… The causes are deep and are linked to the very foundations of capitalism: a system that crowds workers into marginal and low-income areas of cities in order to better exploit them, a system that protects and privileges produc...
