A WIN discussion, see it HERE. From the brutal ICE raids in Los Angeles to the nationwide demonstrations by five million protesters; from the bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities to the victory of a left candidate in New York’s Democratic primary… the situation in the USA today is highly volatile. The traditional establishment parties have lost credibility, but in the absence of an organised … [Read more...]
First setbacks for apprentice dictator Donald Trump!
By Yorgos Mitralias Only the blind cannot see what is now obvious: Trump wants to be a dictator, behaves like one, and is doing everything he can to establish a dictatorship! Seen from this angle, all his recent “initiatives” and other more or less “crazy” and supposedly incomprehensible measures make sense because they are part of his historic project: to establish a dictatorial regime in … [Read more...]
The New Plutocracy – A Response from Raymonde Debord
Raymond Debord, of Militant, A Marxist Review for the Twenty-First Century (France) June 2025, comments on Roger Silverman's article dated April 2025. See the Roger's article HERE About the international situation A few remarks on Roger Silverman's analysis Comrade Silverman's contribution is an excellent way of entering into an essential discussion: understanding the new historical … [Read more...]
Rich and powerful versus poor and weak – Trump is globalizing the class struggle!
By Yorgos Mitralias The first 100 days of Trump's second presidency have been enough for Trumpism to upset not only the certainties of the international order established by those from above, but also the dispositions and perception of that international order by those from below! And one of the first, but major, consequences of this upheaval is that the international landscape of those from … [Read more...]
THE NEW PLUTOCRACY
By Roger Silverman, April 2025 See response from Raymond Debord HERE. The world is reeling with shock and disbelief. Its dominant power has abruptly abandoned eight decades of economic orthodoxy, diplomatic consensus, strategic alliances and liberal pretensions. At home this means the shutdown of entire government agencies, mass redundancies, defiance of judicial rulings, incarceration, … [Read more...]
The Holocaust in Gaza is Washington’s Baby. The Class War at Home is Too
from Richard Mellor Although it may seem hopeless, I will not, and neither will this blog, stop sharing the horrific images and stories about the genocide that Zionism is committing in Palestine. The Israeli's are committing this horror with full support of the US and most of the western nations and media. The US provides the weapons, the money and the diplomatic cover. Netanyahu, a … [Read more...]
Michael Roberts: LIBERATION DAY
It’s not April Fools day (1 April). But it might as well be as later today US President Donald Trump announces another barrage of tariffs on imports into the US in what Trump calls ‘Liberation Day’ and what America’s voice of big business and finance, the Wall Street journal, has called “the dumbest trade war in history.” In this round, Trump is raising tariffs on imports from … [Read more...]
THE NEW PLUTOCRACY
A WIN Discussion March 2025. Watch HERE. The return of Donald Trump to the White House has shaken the world to its foundations. It has shattered decades of diplomatic relations, precipitated a wholesale trade war, and threatened outright annexations. At home it has begun mass deportations, defied judicial rulings and shut down entire state institutions. How are we to define the new order? Are … [Read more...]
A NEW ERA HAS BEGUN
by Roger Silverman The return to power of Donald Trump in the USA marks the beginning of a new era in world history. In its former strongholds of North America, western Europe and Japan, capitalism is decaying, prone to periods of stagnation punctuated by slumps and weak recoveries, and dominated by a shrinking elite of super-billionaires indulging in largely parasitic, corrupt and … [Read more...]
What Trump is doing is new, but is also not new: the novelty of openness and the barbarism of intensified oligarchic Western capitalism
by Dave Hill (16th March 2025) Class War and Late Western Capitalism Donald Trump and Elon Musk are, par excellence, `class warriors’, representatives of their capitalist oligarchic class. They have made a massive attack on the working class, attempting to summarily dismiss hundreds of thousands of workers, closed-down numerous government national and international agencies, laying off/ … [Read more...]