Trump’s efforts to put the clock back to the world as it was in those far-off days are doomed to fail, shipwrecked by the changed world situation and the balance of class forces within the USA

Fighters loyal to the al-Jolani regime have swept through coastal villages, towns and cities, carrying out a pogrom that has left over 1,200 Alawite civilians dead

The liberal elite looks on Trump’s actions with abject horror. They denounce him as an “imperialist”, an “oligarch” and worse. But one should not throw stones in a glass house.

The era of free trade has brought misery upon the working class, with stagnating wages, factory closures, and harsher working conditions. But trade wars will bring no solution.

Since Trump entered power, the whole of the world situation has been transformed.

Trump’s proposal is nothing short of another Nakba: the forced expulsion of two million Palestinians from their land.

Around the globe, imperialist powers are pumping a never-before-seen amount of cash directly into the deep pockets of the arms manufacturers, all while the vast majority are struggling to get by.

World capitalism is in serious trouble, and American capitalism is at the heart of the rot. Trump’s unenviable task is to manage the systemic crisis of capitalism, and in particular, US imperialism’s relative decline.

The ferocious blaze threatening to swallow America’s second largest city is a product of the capitalist system in terminal decline.

One can sense panic and demoralization on the left. Trump’s election and the rise of right-wing populist copycats like Pierre Poilievre in Canada could give the impression that there is a shift to the right in society in general. That would be to misunderstand the situation.