Identificação do Folhas Autora: Ivani Solange Pacci NRE: Dois ...

Task 2 – Read the text below:
It’s becoming clearer to all of us that world we live in is falling deeper and
deeper into an economic and political crisis.
Latin America is a region of the world where one-half of the population still lives
is dire poverty. Central American human development statistics range from the mediocre
to the truly disastrous thanks to extreme social inequality. Economic grouth has been
painfully slow and badly distributed.
The U.S. government continues to wage its racist, imperialist, “war on terror” –
which has already killed hundreds of thousands in the forced colonizations of Iraq and
Afeganistan – and is stepping up its aggression towards Iran, Syria, North Korea,
Venezuela and Cuba.
The capitalist ruling classes in every country of the world are waging an intense,
one-sided attack on the already low living standards of working people and their
oppressed allies.
The Iraqi, Afghan and Palestinian people continue to resist imperialism by the
means available to them, and Haiti remains ravaged as imperialist soldiers occupy the
country.
A genocide continues in Sudan, tens of thousands of Black people remain
enslaved in Mauritania, and Ethiopia and Eritrea are on the verge of another war.
Revolucionaries continue to fight for the overthrow of the oppressive social
systems in the civil wars of Nepal, Colombia and the Philoppines.
Global warming, caused by the capitalism ruling classes complete disregard for
the natura environment in their constant drive for more and more profits – which has
wrecked and ravaged our planet, has lead the sea level and the earth’s surface
temperature to rise, and has caused the spread of disease, desertification, massive
reductions in the ozone layer, and the increased intensity and frequency of extreme
weather events.
The inability and unwillingness of the governments in the world to respond to
catastrophic natural disasters has laid bare the complete bankruptcy of the capitalist
system – a system based on increasing profits by any means necessary, so that an elite
minority can become richer and richer while the majority falls deeper into suffering.
The majority of the people of the world are extremely poor and uneducated, tens
of thousands starve to death every day, women are abused, oppressed and mistreated,
ethnic minorities are murdered and discriminated against, millions are imprisoned in