In reality, the international legal system developed since World War II has never been an obstacle to imperialist aggression. The “rules-based world order” established in the postwar period is one of domination by Western countries, led by the United States, which have used it to conquer markets, steal natural resources, and exploit cheap labor across the globe.

The report paints a picture of a party in a deep existential crisis, trapped in financial freefall, discredited in the eyes of its traditional voter base and completely severed from its former grassroots methods.

The ensuing generalized work stoppage went far beyond the bounds of a normal mass demonstration. The unions may have raised the idea, but workers across the state took it and made it their own.

Being outnumbered 80-to-one, the small group of OneBC instigators were completely dwarfed by the counter-protest. This, in and of itself, was a big victory.

For this episode of The Class Line, Joel Bergman and Marco La Grotta discuss the significance of Carney’s speech and what the Communist approach is to this new epoch of imperialist rivalry.

Having used the Kurds organised in the Syrian Defence Forces (SDF) as a pawn against Assad in the Syrian civil war, American imperialism under Donald Trump is now cynically abandoning them to their fate.

Hugo Chávez embodied the revolution and expressed the aspirations of the poor masses worldwide.

Carney’s speech at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos has been called the “eulogy for the old world order,” by the CBC. In it, Carney explained that the new world situation is one where “great powers abandon even the pretense of rules and values for the unhindered pursuit of their power and interests.”

We are witnessing the beginnings of the working class striving toward self-organization and realizing its interests as a class.

One way or another, however, Trump will get what he wants from his gunboat diplomacy: control – officially or otherwise – over Greenland and its resources.