The social constituency for the defense of democracy and opposition to fascism is the working class. It must be rooted in a socialist program, including a massive reallocation of wealth and the transformation of the gigantic banks and corporations into public utilities, run on the basis of social need and not private profit.

The storm is a product of unusually warm waters as a result of the La Nina weather event, a phase of the vast oceanic and atmospheric cycle in the Pacific that drives warm surface waters to East Asia, with a resultant upwelling of colder water along the western coast of South America. Sea temperatures in the region where Goni formed are 30 to 31 degrees Celsius, which can lead to very powerful and unpredictable weather events.