Socialist Horizon, Firebrand, the International Socialist League, and Socialist Alternative (Australia) met to discuss our views of the revolutionary party and how to build it. While the political situation is dire, the No Kings rallies and resistance to ICE demonstrate an appetite for struggle. Building revolutionary socialist organization today is a crucial contribution to building on that struggle.
The turmoil and depravity of the second Trump administration must be understood not as an aberration but as a result of the long-term decline of US imperial primacy. State violence against the oppressed, the instability of the “America First” agenda, and open support for genocide are all desperate attempts to shore up the power of the increasingly reactionary US capitalist class.
As the far right surges worldwide, overuse of the term “fascism” has increased along with it. To some, Donald Trump threatens imminent fascism in the US; to others, the US is already fascist, or always has been. But Marxists must be more exact about what fascism is and how it happens. Getting it wrong leads to fatal errors in organizing.
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