By Roger Silverman, April 2025 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, deportations, concentration camps; … [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...]
No illusions! Like the good fascists they are, Trump and his friends will violate international law and all established rules!
by Yorgos Mitralias When, at the beginning of the century, the great American writer Philip Roth rewrote the history of his country with his extraordinary novel 'The plot Against America', by having the legendary pro-Nazi aviator Charles Lindbergh elected President of the United States instead of Franklin Roosevelt, he probably could not have imagined that the political … [Read more...]
THE RETURN OF DONALD TRUMP
by Roger Silverman Trump’s return to power marks the beginning of a new era. From his first day in office, he has broken with an eighty-year long consensus. He has released hundreds of far-right thugs from the Capitol riots; shut down entire government agencies; demanded the resignations of 2.3 million government employees (65,000 of whom have already accepted a derisory bribe of eight … [Read more...]
Together with Musk, Vance and MileiTrump the “peacemaker” like Hitler the “chancellor of peace”!
by Yorgos Mitralias Friedenskanzler, i.e. Chancellor of Peace. If we tell you that's what Hitler was called before he started the Second World War, you won't believe your ears. And yet it's true, because the image of a “pacifist” Hitler was cultivated not only by his acolytes, but also by those Europeans - and they were the majority - who liked to take his professions of faith in favor of … [Read more...]
THE USA: BUILDING WORKERS’ RESISTANCE
A WIN discussion February 2024. See the recording HERE. The new regime in the USA has lost no time in enforcing its brutal agenda. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are imposing steep tariffs, tearing up environmental regulations, terrorising immigrants, slashing federal programmes, threatening the jobs of millions of government employees, asserting the right of the USA to annexe whatever territories it … [Read more...]