David North
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WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman & Socialist Equality Party (US) Chairman
Michigan, USA
Joined February 2019
The Trump administration is establishing a presidential dictatorship, based on the military, police, paramilitary forces and fascist gangs. The Socialist Equality Party advances this revolutionary program to struggle against Trump and the degenerate oligarchy which he represents.
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Oxfam: 10 US billionaires have had their wealth increase 6-fold since 2020 https://t.co/c8uE7oQuwW The Socialist Equality Party insists that the obscene fortunes of the financial elite must be expropriated. The wealth of the oligarchs is inseparable from their control over the
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The domination of the United States by a parasitic oligarchy, whose seat of power is in the White House, is on display for everyone to see.
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The New Zealand strike is part of the growth of the class struggle globally, fuelled by the austerity agenda of governments that are imposing the burden of a capitalist crisis onto the backs of working people. https://t.co/GYJ7oe2pis
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The claims of the NZ union leaders that things are much better for workers on the other side of the Tasman Sea is an exercise in misinformation, aimed at disorienting workers who took part in last...
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There's no evidence that the boats were trafficking drugs—which, in any case, would not legalize killing civilians. But Trump is no more concerned about justifying his claims than Al Capone was in making a moral case for the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.
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Monday marked the deadliest day yet in the barbaric campaign of extrajudicial assassinations carried out by the US military in Latin American waters.
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If Trump retains power illegally, his removal requires action outside the electoral process. Perhaps Bannon has not thought through the implications of his criminal strategy, but he is legitimizing the resort to revolution by the working class. https://t.co/gS01xKx5Rf
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Trump is implementing the goals of his failed January 6, 2021 putsch, enabled by the cowardice and complicity of the Democrats.
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WSWS arts editor David Walsh’s review of Raoul Peck’s uncritical George Orwell documentary is a must read. While acknowledging the importance of “Homage to Catalonia”, Walsh examines Orwell’s descent into post-war anti-communism. This is ignored by Peck. https://t.co/3fx3pTBrtV
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What is one to make of the events referenced to in 2+2=5, many of them disturbing or even horrifying? And what is to be done about them?
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Netherlands: Culture or cannons? The Van Gogh Museum’s survival at stake The assault on culture, healthcare, and education is not an isolated Dutch phenomenon; it is part of a European and global trend in which the democratic rights and social gains of the working class are
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The future of Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum—home to the world’s most comprehensive collection of works by the Dutch master Vincent van Gogh—now hangs precariously in the balance. The Dutch government’s...
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On October 16, the WSWS held an international webinar with historians David Abraham (from the US), Jacques Pauwels (from Canada) and Mario Kessler (from Germany), on the relationship between Nazism and capitalism and its lessons for today. https://t.co/roglCDvfo7
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As always, Bernie Sanders offers demagogy instead of a program and strategy. He proclaims that Trump will not be allowed to impose an authoritarian regime. But Sanders fails to explain how he will be stopped. https://t.co/HdruptbiYx via @YouTube
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The Nobel "Peace Prize", which is the past has been awarded to monsters like Henry Kissinger and Menachem Begin, has now gone to María Corina Machado, a long time stooge of the CIA and advocate of a US invasion of Venezuela. https://t.co/w4McPwmZlD
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded its 2025 Peace Prize to the leader of Venezuela’s far-right opposition, Maria Corina Machado, an event that is as significant as it is sinister.
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President Trump held a White House “roundtable on antifa,” consisting of right-wing political maniacs: neo-Nazis, Christian nationalists, racists, and Hitler lovers. The meeting was intended as a signal for war against political opposition. https://t.co/yRUeoYj90M
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The White House has been transformed into the headquarters of a conspiracy to legitimize fascism, brand anti-fascism as “terrorism,” and mobilize the repressive machinery of the state against the...
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The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to María Corina Machado, who supports a US invasion of Venezuela. The ignoble Committee concluded that giving Trump the award was "a bridge too far", but Machado is a consolation prize, endorsing Trump's plans for the overthrow of Maduro.
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Jacobin, organ of the DSA, remains silent on the deployment of national guard and the escalating plans for dictatorship. This is today's (Oct 9) on-line front page. Not a word about the threat to invoke the Insurrection Act. Political bankruptcy x Cowardice = DSA.
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The time has come to pull off the political blinders and face the fact that capitalism requires dictatorship. If Trump's conspiracy continues unchecked, history will record that American democracy did not die with a bang, but with a whimper. https://t.co/LL1dnDf4Oq
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On Wednesday, NBC News reported that the Trump administration is actively preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act, which provides the military the authority to conduct law enforcement operations...
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The DSA's Jacobin Magazine and virtually the entire middle class pseudo-left remain silent on the escalating coup d'etat. The warriors of identity politics are not commenting on the deployment of national guard to US cities. It is easier to fight Woody Allen than Donald Trump.
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The Democrats' feeble opposition to Trump is determined by their defense of capitalism. They do not want to say or do anything that legitimizes a political radicalization of the working class that would threaten the corporate-financial oligarchy. https://t.co/Tmr7RhaM8G
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The Democrats’ silence is not simply a matter of cowardice or miscalculation. It flows from the class character of the Democratic Party as a party of Wall Street and the military-intelligence...
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Trump knows that the spineless Democrats have no serious strategy, and that they want nothing but a way to surrender without totally humiliating themselves. But Trump will proceed to destroy thousands of jobs and escalate his drive to dictatorship.
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The working class must intervene in this crisis, to force Trump from office and end his criminal conspiracies. This struggle must not be subordinated to the capitalist Democratic Party, which is opposed to any mass mobilization against Trump’s coup. https://t.co/DvfuuSWDHl
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The central issue behind the government shutdown is the need for the working class to intervene to force the Trump administration from office and put an end to its criminal conspiracies for militar...
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Stephen Miller is Trump’s Josef Goebbels; Hegseth is his Reinhard Heydrich. 2/
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