What is Fascism? with Trotskyist David North, Socialist Equality Party

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SEP Presidential Candidate Joe Kishore on the Cutting of Aid to UNRWA Amidst Gaza Famine

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Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century -- David North, WSWS.org

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Julian Assange and the Fight Against Imperialist War

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 https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/03/25/ymiy-m25.html

EXCERPT:

As we wrote in a subsequent Perspective: “The forces arrayed against Assange by the UK and US states are powerful. But there is another, even more formidable force which has yet to have its say—the British, American and international working class.”

The task we face is this: we, and I include everyone here tonight, must devote our energies to convincing the working class of the burning relevance of the Assange case for its own interests, and of the need for them to take up the fight on his behalf.

This means cutting through the mountain of lies and slanders and breaking out of the narrow confines in which the official campaign for Assange’s freedom has been confined. It means going to the workers, to the younger generation of workers and students in particular, fighting to clarify the essential political issues raised and outlining a strategy on which to fight back.

The fact that the United States is pursuing Assange under the Espionage Act is historically revealing. As we wrote four years ago:

“The precedents for Assange’s trial under the Espionage Act are the mass roundups of socialists and anarchist groups carried out in the years after the law was first established in 1917. Fearful of the revolutionary movements swelling across the world, the US government outlawed political opposition to the First World War and agitation for workers’ strikes and protests.

“Assange’s case is preparation for a similar assault on the working class.”

That is now being played out. Sunak’s government is seeking to make standing up for the truth of what is happening in Gaza a crime to try and crush the growing anti-war movement. His extremism definition is part of a pattern of governments preparing for war not only with their opponents abroad, but with what they see as the main enemy—the working class at home. It joins laws attacking the right to strike, protest and blow the whistle on state crimes.

The ruling class are preparing for a clash they know is coming because their policies, above all their war policies, cannot be pursued except through a further assault on already gutted living standards and state provision. Assange’s case has been the canary in the coalmine for these preparations.

Opposing war and defending democratic rights are the vital questions confronting the international working class today and that struggle must have Assange’s freedom inscribed on its banner. It must learn from his case to prepare for the battles ahead.

In conclusion, I will be blunt: we have lost a lot of time. This really is the 11th hour for Julian Assange and for everything his case represents. We cannot start from a position of pessimism in our ability to build a mass movement. What I hope this speech has demonstrated is the potential for such a movement, and how it has been thwarted not primarily by the attacks of Assange’s enemies but by the rotten perspective of those who were supposed to defend him.

A break with that perspective will prepare the way for a broad campaign, embracing the most energetic and principled fighters in their workplaces, neighbourhoods, and universities.

In the last years the Socialist Equality Party has collaborated with workers including bus drivers, postal workers, teachers, and tea plantation workers, and with students, in the UK, Australia, the United States, Germany and Sri Lanka to form rank-and-file committees which have all passed resolutions in Assange’s defence. We have held rallies in all those countries.

To those here today we say: join us in this campaign and in the fight for socialism against dictatorship and war. And join the Socialist Equality Party.

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The Gaza Genocide and the Death of Aaron Bushnell: What are the Political Lessons? David North, Socialist Equality Party

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The Eclectic Radical: Revolution in an Election Year--Socialist Equality Party Candidates for President & VP

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A Thank you and An Update from Stella Assange

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Wikileaks Reveals Alexei Navalny's US Funding as Washington Exploits His Death

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Putin’s Interview with Tucker Carlson: The Russian Oligarchy Pleads for “Peaceful Coexistence” with Imperialism

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VERY IMPORTANT:  

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/02/21/qehv-f21.html

EXCERPT: 

Even as imperialism escalates toward World War III, Putin attempts to secure a deal through diplomatic and military maneuvers that are ideologically based on appeals to nationalism and the far right. The interview serves as an indicative step in this process.

The working class must draw important lessons from this interview. It exposes the political and historical bankruptcy of the oligarchic regime stemming from the Stalinist betrayal of the October Revolution and the subsequent restoration of capitalism.

The bitter experience of two world wars demonstrates that imperialism cannot be transformed into an instrument of world peace. To avert catastrophe, the working class must formulate its response to the war on an independent and internationalist basis, in opposition to all factions of the imperialist powers and the oligarchies that emerged from the Soviet Union’s ruins. It must seek not the reshuffling of borders or a rearrangement of terms between capitalist countries but the overthrow of the nation-state structure and the world capitalist system.

What is imperative is the establishment of a socialist anti-war movement among youth and workers, grounded in the traditions and principles of internationalism and Marxism, namely Trotskyism. This is the goal pursued by the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists in Russia and Ukraine, alongside their comrades in the International Committee of the Fourth International.

Assange’s Lawyers Expose US-UK Persecution on First Day of High Court Hearing

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 https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/02/20/epzq-f20.html

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Assange’s case against his prosecutors is devastating. It establishes that the US government is waging a campaign of political persecution in retribution for Assange’s exposure of US government crimes. In doing so, it is violating his most essential democratic rights: to life, freedom from torture and inhuman and degrading punishment, freedom of expression, and freedom from abuse of legal process and arbitrary power.

Summers delivered the most significant evidence, arguing that the US is illegally using its prosecution of Assange as a means of punishing his activity with WikiLeaks which exposed “US state-level crimes, crimes which sit at the very apex of the legal hierarchy,” including “extrajudicial assassinations, renditions, torture, dark prisons, rogue killings.”

What Assange’s work disclosed, Summers continued, was a type of “criminality which permeates, is approved, tolerated, within the very fabric of the American government.” His case therefore falls within a class of cases where “state retaliation makes use of the criminal justice system.”

Summers cited as a “vivid illustration” and “paradigmatic example from history” Emile Zola’s open letter condemning the French state’s persecution of Alfred Dreyfus, “J’Accuse...!”

David North Responds to Cornel West's Religious Platitudes in the Face of Fascist Govt Maneuvers

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The Growing US Military Recruitment Crisis: There is no Solution & the Crisis Will Only Grow...[& Comments by LJ]

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New Atlas' Brian Berletic describes the current U.S. foreign policy situation very well.  He attributes the breakdown of both domestic and foreign policy to striving of elites of the "Modern U.S. Empire."  The wanton warmongering that the slipping hegemon indulges in is failing, says Mr. Berletic.  He recommends that the U.S. stop "imposing itself" on the rest of the world and begin to work with other nations to fulfill the needs of all. 

Capitalism is the failing system Mr. Berletic describes but does not name.  What will persuade capitalism to give up its massively destructive spoils system?  The only way it will is when the global working class consciously unites together to build socialism.   

Capitalism must be dismantled.  Mr. Berletic cites the failed Roman Empire as a cautionary example for the U.S.  While in those times, it would have been impossible to meet the needs of 8 billion people.  Today we have the required technology.  The choice is stark.  Allowing the murder of 30,000 innocent Palestinians is just a preview.  If we don't build socialism, capitalism will destroy humanity. 

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