Capitalism behind fatal building disasters
a WW commentary
By Kathy Durkin posted on June 28, 2021
Two preventable catastrophes caused by capitalist greed in housing construction occurred four years and thousands of miles apart, and in both cases the tragic loss of human life was horrendous. While Florida’s building collapse is affecting a more affluent grouping in the U.S., the earlier disaster at Grenfell Tower in England impacted a lower-income community, with a majority of people of color, many of them immigrants.
They have faced racism, anti-immigrant bigotry and reactionary politicians’ resistance in their quest for safety measures in housing and justice for those who died and survivors.
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