Jun
15
Date
4:00 PM EDT
Location
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Donald Trump is carrying out an unfolding coup d’état. He has deployed active-duty troops into Los Angeles, overseen a massive assault on immigrants, and is threatening to unleash the military in a campaign of violence against the American people. These actions are part of a conspiracy to dismantle democratic forms of rule and establish a presidential dictatorship in the United States. The military buildup in Washington D.C., timed to coincide with Trump’s birthday on June 14, is the centerpiece of a violent assault on constitutional government.
Mass opposition is already taking shape across the country, expressed in spontaneous demonstrations and hundreds of protests planned for June 14. What is required now is a clear political perspective and strategy to mobilize the immense power of the working class and youth.
Join this emergency online meeting to discuss the urgent steps required to stop Trump’s coup and defend democratic rights.
David North is the national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party and chairman of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board. He has been active in socialist politics for over 50 years.
Will Lehman is a Mack Trucks worker and was a candidate for United Auto Workers president in the union’s 2022 elections. He is a leading member of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC).
Tom Mackaman writes for the World Socialist Web Site on US and labor history. Mackaman is co-editor with David North of The New York Times’ 1619 Project and the Racialist Falsification of History.
Tom Carter is a member of the Socialist Equality Party (US) National Committee.
Joseph Kishore has been the national secretary of the SEP since 2008 and has played a central role in the development of its political program and the building of the SEP. He ran as the SEP’s presidential candidate in the 2024 US elections.
Johannes Stern is editor of the German language edition of the WSWS.
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The deployment of the military onto the streets of Los Angeles—the second-largest city in the United States—marks a qualitative escalation of the Trump administration’s ongoing, well-prepared coup d’état.
Donald Trump’s speech at Fort Bragg on Tuesday is a massive escalation in his unfolding conspiracy to establish a military dictatorship under his personal control.
A new political framework is being established in America, in which the federal government operates outside any legal restraint, carrying out actions that are not only unprecedented in scope but brazenly illegal and unconstitutional.
The peaceful character of Monday’s protest have not prevented police from instigating violence as they have in previous days.
