The November 10 online meeting hosted by the Socialist Equality Party analyzed the causes and consequences of the Trump victory and elaborated a political strategy for the working class to fight back.
The Democrats’ overriding concern is not Trump’s authoritarian designs but safeguarding the continuity of the Biden administration’s central imperialist objective: the war against Russia in Ukraine.
The re-election of Donald Trump signifies the violent realignment of American politics with its underlying social reality: a society dominated by staggering inequality and ruled by a capitalist oligarchy.
Donald Trump’s threat to force through his slate of far-right cabinet nominees as “recess appointments” without Senate confirmation votes marks a significant step in the de jure breakdown of constitutional forms of government.
The US judicial and political system has proved itself completely incapable of defending the democratic rights of the population.
As Trump and his Republican co-conspirators continued openly to plot to overturn the vote should the fascist ex-president lose the election, Harris and Obama issued no warning and made no appeal for popular resistance.
Having fertilized the soil with the Big Lie, Trump, his network of lawyers and his allies in Congress and state legislatures are preparing to delay and block the certification of votes at the local, state and federal levels. The plan is based on violence.
The scandal-ridden US Supreme Court has begun its new term facing public hostility not seen since the pro-slavery Dred Scott decision of 1857.
