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Pandemic, inequality and climate change are three crises that call for the end of capitalism, John McDonnell tells Adelante conference
Supporters watch on a screen, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaking during a ceremony where he officially joined the Liberal Party, in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, November 30, 2021

by Ben Chacko and Steve Sweeney
in central London

LESSONS from Latin America demonstrate the need to overturn the existing order to resolve three crises threatening humanity’s future, Labour MP John McDonnell told the Adelante conference on Saturday.

The Hayes and Harlington MP said that the pandemic had illustrated the need to confront Big Pharma and secure shared access to the technologies to defeat disease.

The second crisis was growing inequality both within and between nations, requiring a reckoning with finance capital, and the third was climate change that risks making the planet uninhabitable for future generations.

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