Global pandemic heightens danger of another world war Peter Symonds is a member of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and the national editor of the WSWS in Australia. He writes regularly on political and social developments in Asia, Australia and the South Pacific and has lectured on the history of Trotskyism in Asia and the Chinese revolutions of the 20th century. He gave this report to the 2021 International May Day Online Rally held by the WSWS Speech delivered by Peter Symonds to the 2021 International May Day Online Rally The coronavirus pandemic has not only brought immense social distress to working people around the world, but it has dramatically intensified the danger of a catastrophic world war, driven above all by the determination of American imperialism to arrest its historic decline at any cost.