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This critical discussion will focus on the fight to defend democratic rights in the face of the Trump administration’s rapid moves to establish a presidential dictatorship.
This discussion with David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, will focus on his two most recent books, Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War and The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide.
The election of Trump and his cabinet of reactionaries signifies the brutal restructuring of global society being carried out by the financial oligarchy.
On Saturday, May 4, the International Committee of the Fourth International and the World Socialist Web Site celebrated May Day with an online rally, featuring speakers from throughout the world.
The direct precedent for the Trump administration’s positions is the concept of Willensstrafrecht (“punishment of the will”), developed by the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler.
The “pause” came as it was becoming apparent the entire financial system was on the verge of another crisis rivalling those of 2008 and March 2020 or possibly even greater.
Mass opposition is developing to the fascist in the White House, but the movement can only go forward through a break with the Democratic Party and a struggle against the capitalist system.
“The alternatives as posed by Rosa Luxemburg, ‘Socialism or Barbarism,’ confronts us all today. The alarm has been sounded. Now we must respond to it.”
