The way Trump speaks openly and without subterfuge about the interests of US imperialism is having an important impact on consciousness. The majority of people in the world can now see how the world really is, and how imperialism really works

The following is the second of a speech given to the International Executive Committee of the Revolutionary Communist International

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.

Democracy under capitalism is capitalist rule. And it’s the most stable form of capitalist rule: by allowing for elections and the peaceful transfer of power between parties, the masses can express their political dissatisfaction, while real power stays in the hands of capital.

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.

The guns have fallen silent in Gaza, for now. After fifteen months, a ceasefire agreement has brought a pause to the relentless genocidal killing of tens of thousands of Palestinians and the near total destruction of the Palestinian enclave by the state of Israel.

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.

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.