As Israel and the US bomb Iran, imperial hypocrisy is on full display — a “greatest hits” rerun from the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The world should fear the US and Israel first and foremost, a genocidal nuclear-armed apartheid state and its imperial patron. We must not stop at Trump and Netanyahu, but oppose the whole capitalist system that drives international conflict.
After exploding in the Latinx community of Los Angeles, the anti-ICE movement has spread nationwide and become the most militant and determined opposition to Trump. Marxists must resolutely support immigrant workers in their struggle against ICE, while pointing to the Democrats’ complicity in the US’s racist border policies — and maintaining our opposition to the very existence of borders and nations.
As Congress sends threatening letters to the Party for Socialism and Liberation and immigrant rights organizations, the entire left must unite to defend them, regardless of our differences and while remaining honest in our criticisms of them.
Sharp divisions among revolutionary socialists The question of war has always been a key division among socialists. It divides reformist supporters of the capitalist state from revolutionary opponents of the capitalist state. Since the late 1800s, it has divided soft...