The underlying problem is capitalism, a social system whose very operation requires the ruining of the masses . While today the world capitalist agencies are on a free-trade kick, they have historically gone back and forth between free trade and state regulation of the market . For example, for a long time after World War II, the World Bank and other bourgeois agencies encouraged government-backed infrastructure projects and the building of state sectors in the Third World . While the bourgeoisie claims the market itself will solve everything, the representatives of the strongest monopolies are building up international institutions that dictate world economic policy to an unprecedented extent . While today they focus on attacking government regulation, when the world bourgeoisie needs to save itself with a heavy dose of state intervention, their international bodies can adopt to that policy too .
Class struggle is the answer .
The answer to the offensive of the bourgeoisie is to build a class movement of the workers and other oppressed . It is the organizations, demonstrations, strikes, mass uprisings and rebellions of the working masses against poverty, cutbacks, racist and sexist oppression, environmental ruin and all other forms of capitalist oppression that the bourgeoisie fears . Though today, generally speaking, the level of struggle is low, mass discontent is brewing beneath the surface . The series of demonstrations against the world capitalist agencies are a sign of this discontent . These demonstrations have shown the determination and militancy of a new wave of activists .