The US remains the world’s dominant economic, political and military superpower. But it faces competition from a newly emerging superpower, China, and its allies. This introduces a new, more dangerous phase of imperialism.
As more votes are sorted, it becomes much clearer that Trump’s victory, far from being a landslide, was quite narrow. When the count is finalised nationwide, more voters will have chosen someone other than the bigoted billionaire.
Donald Trump has nominated about two dozen monsters in an administration that is sure to inflict serious damage on workers and the oppressed in the US and beyond.
Something terrible happened in Amsterdam on 7 November, although if you just read the mainstream media, you’d be forgiven for not knowing exactly what that was.
America needs a form of politics that is pro-worker, anti-racist and not beholden to the oligarchy. But just as much, it needs a form of politics that operates outside elections.
The left the world over could learn a lesson from the serious, hard-headed organising taking place in hospital wards and tyre factories, on the streets and in the universities in Argentina.
Joseph Daher, author of Hezbollah: The Political Economy of Lebanon’s Party of God and Palestine and Marxism, spoke to Red Flag about Israel’s escalating offensive.
