The prolonged crisis of the system takes dimensions that threaten the planet. On top of the image of the greatest social inequality, environmental destruction and epidemics are added.

The texts included in this book cover two thematic units that are interconnected. The first one is related to the Covid-19 pandemic, and the second one deals with all aspects of the environmental crisis.

The background of this connection is the analysis of Marx and Engels on the destructive dynamics of the system characterized by blind competition for profit: it was Marx who spoke of the "metabolic rift" caused by capitalism in the relationship between society and nature.

These ideas empower our struggles, opening up the horizons of the overall alternative: a society free from the multiple failures of capitalism that will have as its driving force the satisfaction of needs and not profit.