No. 2 January 10, 2021 CONTENTS January 6 Events in the United States

economy, the private health care and insurance systems and inability to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic (with one death for every 1,000 people), the length of the food lines, the treatment of veterans, seniors, the homeless, women and children, besides Blacks, Puerto Ricans, peoples of the Americas and Asians as well as the violations of the inherent rights of Indigenous nations. [...] It would seem that the distinguishing feature of the term "insurrection" is the storming of the Capitol, the over three-hour lock-down of the Capitol, offices being occupied and ransacked by protesters, and members of the Senate and the House of Representatives being forced to shelter. [...] Behind the dark shadow of the rampage January 6 breaching the Capitol and the depraved ravings of a president refusing to accept the results of the election, the facts of life in this period and the main trend of the opposition of the peoples has to be brought to the fore. [...] and all over the world is on a perilous course with the ruling circles and the objective workings of the capitalist system incapable of addressing the serious problems that are demanding resolution, be it the growing impoverishment and devastation of the living 11 conditions of the people, the increasing concentration of wealth and power in the hands of fewer and fewer, the danger of war and aggre. [...] January 6 is the Christian celebration of the Epiphany that ends the 12 days of Christmas with the coming of the three wise men, the Magi.