Issue 48 of In Defence of Marxism magazine – the quarterly theoretical journal of the Revolutionary Communist International – is out now!

The idea that the United States would annex Canada might initially seem to be beyond absurd. But there is most definitely a method behind Trump’s madness. 

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.

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The fall of the Liberals ushers in a new era of crisis and instability for Canada.

A group of scandalously rich parasites is asking the state to buy useless toys of war in the hope of artificially maintaining their failed economic system.

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What we see is not the struggle to establish a more just world system, but rather the struggle between different imperialist robbers for the division of the loot.

With the government in crisis and the threat of Trump imminent, things are barrelling towards disaster.