How do you counter a reactionary international by developing a progressive international? Now there are steps to that.
They don't get much publicity
but
I think it's this coming December. There will be a
formal announcement of what has been in process for some time.
Yanis Varoufakis
the founder and leading figure in
DiEM25, the
progressive
movement in Europe, very important of our focus and Bernie Sanders that came out with the
declaration calling for a progressive
international to
come back, and we hope to overcome the reactionary international based in the White House.
Now if you look at the level of states, this looks like an extremely unequal  competition
But states are not the only things that exist.
If you look at the level of people
it's not impossible.
It's possible to construct a progressive international based on people
ranging
from the
organized
political groups that have been proliferating that have gotten a huge shot in the arm from the
Sanders campaign,
ranging from them to
self-help mutual aid, self-help
organizations that are arising in communities all over the world in the
most impoverished areas of Brazil for example
and even this astonishing
fact that I mentioned that the murderers, crime gangs are taking responsibility for
bringing some form of
decent
protection against the pandemic and the "favelas," the miserable slums in Rio
all of this is
happening on the popular level if it expands and
develops, if people don't just give up and despair,
but work to change the world as they've done in the past under much worse conditions. If they do that
there's a chance for a progressive
international and notice, bear in mind that there are also striking cases of
internationalism,
progressive internationalism at the state level. So take a look at the European Union,
the rich countries in Europe
like Germany have recently given us a lesson in just what the Union means.
Right?
Germany's managing pretty well. They probably have the lowest death rate in the world. It's an organized society.
Right next door
Northern Italy is suffering, miserably. Is  Germany giving the many aid?
No.
In fact, Germany even blocked the effort to develop Eurobonds,
general the bonds in Europe, which could be used to alleviate
the suffering in the countries under worse the worst conditions
But fortunately for Italy it can look across the Atlantic
for aid from the superpower on the western hemisphere.
Cuba.
Cuba is
once again as before
exhibiting
extraordinary
internationalism sending doctors
to Italy. Germany won't do it, but Cuba can.
China is providing materially.
So these are
steps towards progressive internationalism at the state level.
