1 | GTI FORUM CONTRIBUTION Coordinate Globally, Serve Locally Forum contribution: Planetize the Movement! What would a desirable and viable global organization of progressive movements look like in the context of the historical conjuncture of crises-ridden capitalism? I propose here a reorientation of progressive politics that are attuned to both the fundamentals of structural change and the basic daily needs of human beings. Capitalist Crises and the Covid-19 Pandemic The current global health crisis resulting from the coronavirus pandemic is just one of the many recent crises besetting the world capitalist system. The magnitude of attention given to it is unprecedented. Influential actors have not responded with the same urgency to the other life-threatening problems of climate change, ecological degradation, wars, resource conflicts, inequality, and privation. The digital world has definitely amplified awareness about the pandemic. Yet such intensity of reaction among powerholders and decision makers is largely because of the instantaneous impacts of the deadly disease on the assets, interests, and lifestyles of the business and socio- political elites based in the financial, production and industrial centers of capitalism in the US, Europe, Japan, South Korea, and China. The effects of zoonoses, or diseases transmitted from animals to humans such as COVID-19, are transboundary. They adversely affect societal interaction and economic activities from individuals and households to cross-border commerce, trading, and tourism. As globalization took off in the early 1990s, ever-increasing production for the export market has ushered in a ramp-up of zoonotic infections. Underpinning this process is the capitalist ethos of neoliberalism, the Bonn Juego April 2020