IYSSE and SEP public meeting
Palace coup or class struggle?
The political crisis in Washington and the strategy of the working class
Thursday June 29 7:00pm
Wayne State University
State Hall room 134
5143 Cass Ave, Detroit MI
The charges against Trump, including those of Russian interference in the US elections and collusion and cover-up on the part of Trump and other administration officials, have a synthetic and fraudulent character. They are similar to the Republican-led scandal-mongering over former President Bill Clinton's sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky and claims that Barack Obama was not an American citizen. In all these cases, the real sources of the divisions within the ruling elite were deliberately obscured with a smelly heap of allegations.
The latest eruption of political warfare in Washington is rooted in the intractable crisis of American capitalism. Twenty-five years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the efforts of American imperialism to sustain its dominance through military action have led to a series of debacles. Nearly a decade after the global economic crash of 2008, the American financial system remains highly unstable. The diseased character of the American economic system has created an oligarchic social system, the chief characteristics of which are parasitism and a staggering level of social inequality.
This crisis poses two ways forward for the working class, both in America and abroad. One hand is to accept the framework proposed by the Democratic Party, which will eventually lead to a military confrontation between the United States and the world's second largest nuclear power, Russia. On the other, it can put forward it's own political strategy, based on an explicitly anti-capitalist and socialist program that addresses the needs of the great masses of the people.
Join the International Youth and Students for Social Equality and the Socialist Equality Party for a discussion on the perspective needed for the working class to fight back against inequality, austerity and war.
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Palace coup or class struggle: The political crisis in Washington and the strategy of the working class