Written by: ICOR on 15 December 2024
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On November 6, 2024, Donald Trump won the presidential election in the USA and will move into the White House. This means that the USA, an imperialist great power and main warmonger in the world is headed by a president who from various perspectives, is described as ultra-reactionary, right-wing populist or fascist. This increases the danger of US imperialism, which has always started and waged wars and destroyed people and nature, whether under Democrats or Republicans. The monopolies around Trump want to catch up with their aggressively reactionary program, especially in the rivalry with China. This has world-political effects for the masses of people worldwide, especially in crises and danger of war.
Their program: a general attack on workers; the possibility to fire strikers on the spot; attacks on wages; a global environmental catastrophe due to a backward slide on the few environmental policy advances, forced promotion of fossil fuels of oil and gas; intensification of inter-imperialist competition through the aggressive "America first" program; General attack on the working class, the revolutionary as well as the trade union movement and its rights; all the stops of economic warfare with punitive tariffs of up to 100%; bellicosity with threats against Iran, China and everything he calls the "axis of evil"; the Trump administration will continue the Biden policy of genocide in Palestine and Lebanon and may also plan to wage military war against Iran. Racism will be taken to extremes with the planned deportation of eleven million immigrants. The program also includes: closed borders; anti-women policies; an attack on the already completely inadequate social systems; discrimination against LGBTQ people, etc. etc… At the same time, the nationalist and chauvinist program of the monopolies behind Trump is creating further problems for US imperialism itself, because it also depends on a wide range of international relationships.
Millions of people in the US voted for Trump out of their anger at falling living standards, insecurity and distrust of the bourgeois ruling class and international finance capital. Trump demagogically served their hopes with his claims of “secure jobs” and an end to arms supplies to Ukraine. With the extremely undemocratic electoral law and billions in campaign election funds from the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, among others, parts of the masses were persuaded to support Trump by a social media campaign. Anticommunism and social chauvinism have a dangerous influence among parts of the masses. The situation among the working class, the broad masses, is extremely polarized, which also poses a threat to the upswing of the class struggle.
As early as 2017, the ICOR wrote in its resolution on Trump's inauguration: "The inauguration of Donald Trump marks a general tendency of open reaction and has global political repercussions. ... The shift to the right of the new US government is the reaction to the masses' search for an alternative to the existing system." The ICOR supports the worldwide protests against Trump's inauguration.
Today, 8 years on, the world situation is many times more unstable and crisis-ridden; the danger of World War III and the nuclear threat more tangible; the environmental catastrophe an existential crisis for humanity. The US monopolies behind Trump are united in their ultra-reactionary course. In addition to the oil and gas industry, the high-tech sector in particular, which Elon Musk already sees in a top position working closely with the brutal government.
Unlike 8 years ago, the working class in the USA, but also in Europe, is today often polarized and divided, but also much more determined. This is the concern of the monopolies and imperialists and so they are relying on a fascist to corrode the consciousness of the masses, especially the working class, and to suppress the class-conscious workers and revolutionaries. The strike of 30,000 Boeing workers, which has been going on for over 5 weeks, is very significant, as is the successful strike of tens of thousands of dock workers on the east coast of the USA for 3 days at the beginning of October. Militant consciousness is on the rise. Immediately after the election victory, calls were made in many cities to strengthen solidarity with the Palestinian liberation struggle. The first demonstrations against racism and in defense of trade union rights and the right to strike filled the streets of Chicago, New York and Philadelphia.
Nevertheless, the danger of fascism in the USA and as a worldwide tendency must by no means be underestimated. All progressive people, especially all revolutionaries, are called upon to work to raise awareness and organize the masses in the spirit of anti-fascism, anti-imperialism and the struggle for socialism. The alternative is not Trump or Harris. Strong revolutionary organizations, the building of a strong Marxist-Leninist party in the USA are the order of the day under the flag of the realistic utopia of our time: the revolutionary overcoming of imperialism and the building of socialism!
Strengthen the ICOR and the anti-imperialist united front against fascism, war and environmental destruction!
Strengthen the Marxist-Leninist parties and organizations all over the world!
Forward to socialism!
Status of the signatories 13.12.2024. Further signing possible. Current list of signatories at www.icor.info
1. PCPCI Parti Communiste Proletarien de Côte d'Ivoire (Proletarian Communist Party of Ivory Coast)
2. ORC Organisation Révolutionnaire du Congo (Revolutionary Organization of Congo), Democratic Republic of the Congo
3. MMLPL Moroccan Marxist-Leninist Proletarian Line
4. CPSA (ML) Communist Party of South Africa (Marxist-Leninist)
5. PCT Parti Comuniste du Togo (Communist Party of Togo)
6. PPDS Parti Patriotique Démocratique Socialiste (Patriotic Democratic Socialist Party), Tunisia
7. SPB Socialist Party of Bangladesh
8. SPB(M) Socialist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist)
9. CPI (ML) MassLine Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) MassLine
10. NCP (Mashal) Nepal Communist Party (Mashal)
11. RUFN Revolutionary United Front of Nepal
12. CPA/ML Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)
13. Krasnyj Klin Gruppa Kommunistov-Revoljucionerov „Krasnyj Klin“ (Group of Communist Revolutionaries “Krasnyj Klin” ), Belarus
14. PR-ByH Partija Rada - ByH (Party of Labor - Bosnia and Herzegovina)
15. MLPD Marxistisch-Leninistische Partei Deutschlands (Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany)
16. UPML Union Prolétarienne Marxiste-Léniniste (Marxist-Leninist Proletarian Union), France
17. BP (NK-T) Bolşevik Parti (Kuzey Kürdistan-Türkiye) (Bolshevik Party (North Kurdistan-Turkey))
18. KOL Kommunistische Organisation Luxemburg (Communist Organization of Luxemburg)
19. RM Rode Morgen (Red Dawn), Netherlands
20. UMLP União Marxista-Leninista Portuguesa (Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Union)
21. RMP Российская маоистская партия (Rossijskaya maoistskaya partiya) (Russian Maoist Party)
22. MLGS Marxistisch-Leninistische Gruppe Schweiz (Marxist-Leninist Group of Switzerland)
23. MLKP Marksist Leninist Komünist Parti Türkiye / Kürdistan (Marxist Leninist Communist Party Turkey / Kurdistan)
24. KSRD Koordinazionnyj Sowjet Rabotschewo Dvizhenija (Coordination Council of the Workers Class Movement), Ukraine
25. PCP (independiente) Partido Comunista Paraguayo (independiente) (Paraguayan Communist Party (independent))
26. PC (ML) Partido Comunista (Marxista Leninista) (Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)), Dominican Republic
27. SUCI (C) Socialist Unity Center of India (Communist)
28. CPPDM Chinese People's Party for the Defense of Mao Zedong
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