Tornados in Illinois: Dying for Profits at Amazon

On December 10, an Amazon warehouse collapsed in Edwardsville, Illinois, near St. Louis. Six workers died there, according to the company, but perhaps many more. As a series of widely-announced tornadoes passed through, the structure was partially leveled.

The workers inside had no chance. Despite warnings issued by the weather service, the bosses at Amazon’s, who had be informed a half an hour before of the danger coming and to get to safety, prevented the workers from leaving their posts.

Amazon’s employees are like the slave rowers chained to galleys. In the terrible and murderous capitalist mode of production, death is imposed on the proletariat to maintain bourgeois profits.

The ever contemporary Karl Marx said: Capital runs from tumult and quarrel and is timid by nature. But grant it ten per cent and it will be employed everywhere; for a hundred per cent it will trample all human laws; and give it three hundred per cent and there will be no crime that it does not try, even on threat of the gallows