The struggle against the flood catastrophe in Germany requires a socialist programme
The horrendous flooding that hit parts of the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), and Belgium last week, killing over 200 people, was not simply an unavoidable natural disaster.
A bridge over the Ahr river is damaged in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany, Saturday, July 17, 2021. (Photo: AP Photo/Michael Probst)
The fact that the severe storms and heavy rain claimed so many lives and caused devastating damage to houses, roads, bridges and all basic infrastructure is the responsibility of the federal and state governments and their capitalist policy, which, as in the pandemic, placed profits before lives.
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