“Boeing failed in its design and development of the Max, and the FAA failed in its oversight of Boeing and its certification of the aircraft,” a18-month investigation concluded.

The nearly 250-page report found a series of failures in the plane’s design, combined with “regulatory capture”, an overly close relationship between Boeing and the federal regulator, which compromised the process of gaining safety certification.

“Cost-cutting… that jeopardised the safety of the flying public”, a “culture of concealment” over issues with the aircraft, “troubling mismanagement misjudgements” – just some of the charges against Boeing.

 The FAA, comes off almost as badly. US representatives find it guilty of “inherent conflicts of interest” and “grossly insufficient oversight”. The regulator was, in effect, in Boeing’s pocket and that the FAA’s management “overruled” its own technical and safety experts “at the behest of Boeing”.

The report said Boeing had failed to share information about a key safety system, called MCAS, designed to automatically counter a tendency in the 737 Max to pitch upwards. Boeing was at fault for “concealing the very existence of MCAS from 737 pilots”, it found. MCAS was not in crew manuals and Boeing sought to convince regulators not to require simulator training for Max pilots, which would incur extra costs. The MCAS system has been blamed for two crashes that  caused the deaths of 346 people came within months of each other, shortly after the plane went into operation.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54174223

 On Thursday, September 16, 1920, at 12:01 PM EST, people were gathered on New York City’s Wall Street for lunchtime. A horse-drawn wagon made its way through the crowd and stopped across the street from the J.P. Morgan bank headquarters at 23 Wall Street – on the busiest corner of Manhattan’s Financial District. The wagon was carrying 100 pounds of dynamite and 500 pounds of heavy, cast-iron sash weights. A timer had been set, detonating the dynamite, sending the weights and glass from nearby windows flying through the air like shrapnel, and ripping the horse and wagon to pieces. The explosion caused over $2 million in property damage – the equivalent of over $27 million in 2020, with some damage still visible today – instantly killing 30 people, with eight more dying later from severe wounds, as well as injuring several hundred more, 143 of which severely so. 

The Wall Street bombing was never solved, but it’s widely believed to have been perpetrated by an Italian anarchist named Mario Buda in response to the wrongful arrest of two of his colleagues, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. All three of them were Galleanists – followers of another Italian anarchist named Luigi Galleani, a staunch proponent of a primarily anarchist political tactic called ‘propaganda by the deed,’ mainly associated with acts of violence such as bombings and assassinations aimed at the ruling class. It’s worth noting that J.P. Morgan, Jr. was traveling in Europe at the time and that most of the fatalities were young proletarians – part of the labor aristocracy, of course, but members of the working class nonetheless. 

The concept of propaganda by the deed sprung from the recognition that the state and capitalism itself is perpetuated via coercion, what could be considered a latent form of violence, and active violence when threatened with even peaceful revolution, whether justified or not. Accepting that exposes poverty as a form of passive social violence and a manifestation of a heavily obscured class warfare in which moral considerations are perpetually set aside for the benefit of the bourgeoisie and at the proletariat’s expense. From this vantage point, inaction would also be a form of passive social violence since it directly or indirectly contributes to these circumstances’ propagation. From that mindset, virtually every action within a capitalist system would be violence in some form. With nonviolence not being seen as a currently viable option, the question would become how to efficiently leverage violence – precisely what violence they could utilize most effectively to entirely overthrow the capitalist system. Seeing attacks on the ruling class as the most potent means of garnering working-class support since the state’s backlash, in their minds, would enrage the workers, their line of march was clear. 

There’s a kernel of truth in this line of thinking. The theoretical aspect of it holds water to some extent, but the practical side has at least two gaping holes. To be clear, I wholeheartedly agree with the fact that the capitalist system is kept intact through active and potential violence; I don’t even think a capitalist would disagree with that. I also agree that allowing millions per year to die from malnutrition, starvation, treatable diseases, etc. due to poverty is a form of social violence – what Friedrich Engels called ‘social murder’ in The Condition of the Working Class in England – and that any actions within the system that aren’t active attempts to overthrow it are at least passively upholding these social evils, qualifying nearly all actions within it as some form of violence. I even agree that the destruction of private property is theoretically justified in these circumstances since that’s the entire backbone of capitalism itself. The disconnect for me is that I don’t think this tactic’s practically sound. 

All of these attacks, across the board, have failed to upend the capitalist system, invariably ending in one of two situations. It’s most commonly lead to the wholesale slaughter or suppression and immiseration of the rebels, their allies, and frequently even innocent citizens. The First Red Scare is a prime example. This happens because the state has the most artillery and won’t hesitate to trample on human rights to neutralize any threats, citing security as an excuse. On the rare occasions that insurrections weren’t quelled, the rebels have always become the new ruling class, leaving workers no better off once the smoke clears, with many of them dead in the crossfire. 

Moreover, these attacks don’t usually radicalize proletarians, but more often turn them against the rebels. Class conscious workers may feel empowered, but those that aren’t don’t commonly see the struggle as liberating, but evil instead. With total control of the mainstream media and freedom to control the narrative via those outlets, it becomes much easier to paint rebels as terrorists and even frame them for attacks they never committed if they’re already engaging in violence beforehand. Once a movement’s been demonized, it becomes much harder to gain any amount of support. In this way, violence can inadvertently rob a movement of support they may otherwise have secured had it utilized peaceful means. 

We can only realize a socialist revolution peacefully. A democratic society must be founded democratically. In the words of Friedrich Engels: 

“The time is past for revolutions carried through by small minorities at the head of unconscious masses. When it gets to be a matter of the complete transformation of the social organization, the masses themselves must participate, must understand what is at stake and why they are to act.” 

The ruling class may attempt to use violence anyway, but it’s much harder to convince people that entirely peaceful movements are somehow evil. Suppressing peaceful rebels has always bolstered their support anyway. 

Jordan Levi

The truth and reality about U.S. politics is that neither ruling-class party speaks for the working class. When we exclude the fancy language Trump’s election campaign is based upon “Greed is good and regulations bad.” Contrary to the rightwing Biden is not a “socialist” nor is he the FDR New Deal liberal his own supporters like to portray him as. His economic program is mainstream capitalist. Trump is no threat to the Washington “establishment” just as Wall St has nothing to fear from Biden. Far-right leaders historically always tap that type of genuine anger to serve their reactionary goals. It is not an exaggeration to say that Biden will be the best Republican president in modern times. His nomination as the Democratic Party candidate to stand against Trump has perhaps effectively demobilized the liberal left, to an extent that no Republican president could ever do. Who speaks for the working class and poor? No capitalist political party does. There is no electoral solution to class warfare. It requires a new types of organization and parties and a willingness to take whatever steps are necessary to bring fundamental change. 

On November 3, progressives will not vote for an ally . They will vote for a preferred enemy. 

 We know how the story goes – hope and promises of change but which lead to policies that reinforce rather than reverse trends towards greater inequality and state violence. Nevertheless, Sanders, Chomsky, Angela Davis all line up to extol Americans to vote for the lesser evil, even if Biden is still an evil to be opposed when or if he is elected.  Progressives have painted Trump as a mortal threat to democracy and even to the future of humankind. Being told you have the chance to choose between two radically different enemies to fight for your survival makes the choice and the motivation to vote far clearer even if the dichotomy is a false one.

Whatever Biden’s faults and they concede he has many, we are told we must still vote for him regardless. Despite the last two Democratic presidencies, Clinton and Obama, entrenched the very forces that have enabled the disasters of the Bush and now Trump presidencies rather than act in any way as transformative. America was a country beset by multiple interlocked crises that seem beyond the possibility of a solution by ordinary mainstream politics – a sentiment which helped get Trump elected into the White House in the first place. Many disaffected voters are no lining up behind the liberal dog-whistles. They are becoming to understand that the system is simply too rotten to reform, that Clinton-Bush-Obama-Trump-Biden are merely the see-saw political-economic system of the United States. The lofty political rhetoric from right and left is something they have heard just too many times before. While Trump offers bread and circus media shows to his base of adoring followers, the Democratic Party is too timid to even embrace policies that the vast majority of its voters support such as Medicare 4 All and free college education.

This election is not about voting for the president who will lead us out of the darkness towards the light, as Biden kept suggesting but for the Left it is about choosing which enemy they would rather spend the next four years fighting.

The tragedy for the U.S. working class is that there is so little pressure from below on the powers-that-be for the moment. People who are facing massive insecurity in their employment and their families’ survival right now are generally paralyzed by fear, or waiting for some kind of salvation from Trump or Biden and as always the current debates over salvation take place within strictly capitalist bounds. The role of socialists is not to assume position as supplicant begging palliatives but to build movements to change society. This will not be quick or easy, but it is most urgent for America and the world. There can be no easy victories but it is now time that the workers’ voices are heard and take center stage of politics. It is the harsh truth that those of us who would prioritize human needs and democracy over capitalist profit and corporate power do not have a political party capable of mounting a serious challenge to austerity in the electoral arena. Our own, the World Socialist Party is presently ill-equipped to take on such a role other than an agitational Marxist study group.

The central issue facing our society is how to respond to the deepest crisis of global capitalism since the 1930s. Unfortunately, we won’t be hearing a substantive debate about this. The Democratic and Republican parties both favor making working-class people pay to bail out the corporations and get capitalism back on its feet, in order to preserve the wealth and the rights of banks, large corporations, and those few families who live off profits and interest.

In there different approaches both Trump and Biden  asks us to lower our hopes and expectations of a decent life for our families and communities. And it seeks to transform political and economic institutions in order to be sure that workers and governments will remain “disciplined” into the future.

OUR SOCIALIST VISION for changing society begins from the notion that “the emancipation of the working class must be the act of the working class itself.” That argument, advanced by Marx and Engels long ago in the Communist Manifesto, resonates with us. In our view, the job facing socialists today is to build a social movement that can challenge the profit system. 

The World Socialist Party seeks to secure a future that neither the two candidates for president, nor the parties they represent, has the interest to create. 

  Sweatshops and mistreatment are thriving western cities like Los Angeles, California, where labor rights violations are occurring every day. Los Angeles is home to over 50,000 garment workers and is the largest garment manufacturing hub in the United States. 

Ayesha Barenblat, raises awareness around these injustices in her recent documentary ‘Made In America’, a short film which takes you into multiple LA clothing factories, talking to local garment makers and a labour conditions inspector, about what’s really going on behind closed doors. The aim is to highlight various forms of exploitation which garment workers in America have been subjected to for years.

Ayesha explains, “When we think of fast fashion production, the United States might not be the first country to come to mind. However, the truth is that even in America, garment workers are being thrust into vulnerable situations and are being taken advantage of on a daily basis. We thought it was time to look deeply at American manufacturing and push past the smoke and mirrors to see what is really going on in our own backyards.” 

Under piece-pay rate, garment workers only receive around $0.3 for each piece they create. This in turn translates to about $5 an hour – which comes out at way below California’s $15 an hour minimum wage.

In addition to this, garment workers are usually paid in cash and rates are set and changed by their employers each week. Today, it’s common industry practice for employers to reduce already promised piece rates. This means that garment workers have no clarity on what their take home pay will be week by week. The piece rate system thus results in hazardous working conditions as garment workers race against the clock to complete as many items as possible for maximum pay. Ayesha explains that they rarely take bathroom breaks and end up taking their work home to get help from their families.

“Garment workers in the USA have long worked in subhuman working conditions,” says Ayesha. “You need to know that people, not machines, make your clothing. Start by asking, ‘who made my clothes.’ By keeping in mind the origins of how your clothes are made, you begin to form a connection with the human hands that made them.” 

The dangers of producing garments in such conditions have only heightened during Covid-19 as workers have not had time to sanitise work stations or wash their hands, leading to outbreaks inside factories.

“Governments, brands, and factories should address issues in sweatshops, but consumers need to be a part of the movement too,” Ayesha adds, “we all play a part in shifting the industry for the better. The fact is, companies respond to the demands of the consumer, and they will prioritise what the consumer wants. Their every decision revolves around you (the consumer) and your decisions on where you will spend your money. If enough consumers show a great demand for ethical and sustainable products and transparency, it forces companies to take action.” 

The Garment Worker Center (GWC) in LA has been working with Remake to transform the fashion industry in order to eliminate sweatshop labour. GWC is currently leading an anti-sweatshop movement across the state to improve conditions for tens of thousands of local garment workers.

On 29th June 2020, the Garment Worker Protection Act (SB1399) was passed by the California Senate with a 5 to 1 vote. “SB1399 is designed by workers, to close loopholes in the law that today result in workers being paid well below the California minimum wage, and for brands like Fashion Nova and Ross to benefit from this wage theft,” explains Ayesha. “This bill will prevent brands and retailers from benefiting from the layers of subcontracting to avoid accountability under law. In addition, the bill will eliminate piece rate, and instead assure that workers are paid California’s minimum wage. The passing of the bill is a major win for garment workers and a game changer for the fashion industry overall.”

The Garment Worker Protection Act will also serve as a powerful piece of legislation for other states, particularly New York, another hub for domestic manufacturing.

https://www.euronews.com/living/2020/08/17/new-documentary-exposes-subhuman-working-conditions-in-la-sweatshops

 Trump’s great achievement is to transform the November 3rd election into another reality show, and instead of it resembling the Apprentice, which he continued as president with a constant series of sackings of officials, it is more akin to America’s Got Talent. It is now a contest of the candidates personalities, character and integrity rather than rival policies of substance. The rise of populism in America has encouraged demagogy and showmanship. The media focuses on the polls and not on proposals. The Republican and the Democrat lack in vision and inspiration. Both party’s establishment elites have rigged the entire political system through undue influence and big money. Should we be surprised that the election is between the son of a real estate agent and the son of a car salesman?

 A small number of very rich men are quite sure they know what is best for the future of the world and have enough wealth and influence to believe they can make it happen. The illusion still persists that capitalism is all right provided it is run on proper lines, “proper” meaning the way it is done by one of the two political parties.

Fellow-workers, your rulers are your most dangerous enemies. They are most cunning and most treacherous. They maintained the iron rule of Capital under conditions of apparently democratic government and free institutions. They keep you under their iron heel, to grind you in their factories mines and workshops and at the same time make you believe you are free. They played upon you with great success the trick of pretending they were split into two factions, Republicans and Democrats. They were like Siamese twins, two in one and one in two. They lead you by the nose from election to election raising empty cries and plenty of promises, granting you from time to time when hard pressed, some petty reform, like a bone being thrown to a dog to keep him quiet. You were taken in by this trickery thinking you must choose between the greater and the lesser evil. And you in your ignorance and innocence, instead of kicking them all out, bag and baggage, have been voting them alternately into power, – Tweedledum following Tweedledee. Decades of such practice upon you have sharpened their wits and they have learned to perfection the art of concealing their mailed fist under a velvet glove, and their dastardly deeds with a glib tongue and a complicit media.

The whole world is at the mercy of what happens in the United States. It is a truism that if America catches a cold, the rest of us begin to sneeze. It remains the economic power-house despite the rivalry of China to dominate all other economies. It has the mighty military arsenal that surpasses all other nations which permits it to assume the role of the police-man of the world. It has the far-reaching diplomatic influence to pick and choose which international law or international institution to support and fund as the UNESCO, ICC and WHO are finding out. Even if the Green New Deal is fully embraced by Biden, the environmental future of the planet is still determined by the Wall St corporations. Almost 8 billion of us are trapped by whether 300 million of our fellow-workers decide if they prefer Coca Cola or a Pepsi brand president. The rest of us have no say whatsoever in the future of the planet. It matters little if Noam Chomsky, if Cornel West or Angela Davis believe in the lesser evil of Biden. Like Hillary Clinton in 2016 Biden is a proven evil. He has the record. It is not supposition. Yes, Trump is monstrous but so is Biden. Should he become the next president, it means siding with him on every thing he does to ensure the no return of a Republican right-winger. That is the reality.

 American workers have the duty to remain true to themselves and vote with their conscience. They have the responsibility to act on behalf of humanity as a whole and forego national self-interest.

 Trump offers us four more years. Every reactionary force in the country – from white supremacists, to Christian evangelical preachers, to Fox TV– is doing its utmost to assure a Trump victory. The right wing nightly dreams of what it can do under another Trump administration. Within the Democratic Party there is a growing polarization, with some Democrats moving to the right, but others being swinging more leftward. Today the conservative trend have very much the upper hand under Biden, and this is likely to continue. But more and more of us are refusing to vote. Time and time again we’ve seen the promises and phony solutions of both main parties turn bitter as they sweetened the honey for their Big Business friends in Wall St.

Each day working people face the reality of no secure jobs, bad working conditions, poor health care, dilapidated housing and bad education for our kids. We see our whole lives going down the drain. But there’s a growing consciousness among working people that we don’t have to take things as they are. Workers are walking off the job. People are taking to the streets. It is scaring the rich rulers of this country to see that workers can unite to fight back, even ignoring their laws when need be. The wealthy elite are trying to offset the anger by telling us to vote for their front–men. To keep us under control, they tell us, “everything will work out if you have trust in the system and use your ’right’ to vote for the best man to do the job.” The media does its best to create enthusiasm so voters feel that they really are making a big decision in their lives.

Many voted for Trump. Their reason? “He may be a crook, but at least he gets things done.” His whole campaign revolves around his image as the Action Man; Mr. Tough Guy who goes against the Washington establishment to get what he wants; and then parades his list of miniscule accomplishments. But really what’s there to thank Trump for? It was labor that did those things anyway and he just took the credit. Why should we thank him for the things we deserve anyway? The people who should be grateful to Trump are his rich cronies he’s been serving all along with tax cuts and corporate welfare. it’s most likely if Trump  grabs victory on Nov. 3 he’ll be up to his dirty tricks again against the people.

The Republican platform is not stupid, from the point of view of the Republican leaders. The Republican platform is stupid and dishonest? Agreed. But this same stupid and dishonest platform has carried dismay and confusion into the ranks of the Democratic Party. Biden promises us good times ahead. Like two hoodlum gangsters, Trump and Biden, face each other down. In campaign speeches and ads, they concentrate all emphasis on the crimes of the other, and let their own virtues rest on vague and noble generalities that can never be pinned down. For honest men and women, there is no real choice between racketeers. The fight has got to be against all gangsters and gangsterism.

It is a popular myth that this is an affluent society, that the people of this country have the highest standard of living in the world, or for that matter, in all history.  Yet it is true that individuals in this country are fabulously rich and that the nation as a whole possesses an enormous quantity of wealth. So how is it that so many are so poor? we see that the wealth of this country is concentrated in the hands of a few individuals. And it also turns out though that the wealth of this nation is in large part the wealth of the world. There is the ruling elite of America, and the rest of us must subordinate ourselves to their interests. We depend on them for employment. If we’re not employed, we depend on them for our “hand-out”, whatever form it may take. The elite make the laws and these “laws” include  tax exemptions for the rich.

 We have to realize that all our different fights are really one fight, that against a common enemy. We have to stand strong and together, for in unity there is strength. We must galvanize others into taking action. The World Socialist Party see our task as one of organizing people, of winning new people to the struggle against capitalism. Political liberty is rooted in economic freedom. The one who controls and owns the means that sustain my life, owns and controls me. I am his slave and in no sense free. You are divided at the ballot box upon alleged issues, issues in which you have not the slightest interest.

 New Zealand’s Maori Party said on Monday that the country should be renamed to better reflect the country’s indigenous culture. They want the nation to be called “Aotearoa”. The word means ‘the land of white cloud’ in the nation’s indigenous language. They want the name change to take effect by 2026. Efforts to rename the Pacific nation has gone on for years. The name New Zealand comes from the Netherlands’ colonial era, with the country named after the Dutch province of Zeeland.

Both English and Maori are official languages in New Zealand. The Maoris are the largest ethnic minatory, representing 16.5 percent of the population. But those with indigenous roots complain that English has become too dominant and ignores the country’s history.

“It is unacceptable that only 3 per cent of the country can speak its official language,” Maori Party candidate Rawiri Waititi was quoted as saying.

A study found that the UK has experienced what lead researcher Prof Nick Freemantle called “a massive increase, a profound increase” in anxiety, which began in 2008 when the worldwide crash caused by bad bank loans triggered large-scale unemployment and financial insecurity. The findings emerged in one of the biggest studies of anxiety undertaken in the UK for many years, examining trends in diagnosis and treatment by GPs since 1998 by analysing 6.6 million patients at 795 practices across the country.

Anxiety has trebled among young adults, affecting 30% of women aged 18 to 24, and has increased across the board among men and women under 55  with the financial crash, austerity, Brexit, climate change and social media blamed for massive rises in the condition. Some of those events may well have “contributed to feelings of hopelessness and powerlessness, coming as they did after years of financial insecurity”, elaborated Freemantle, a professor of clinical epidemiology and biostatistics, and director of the Comprehensive Clinical Trials Unit at University College London.

In 2008, 8.42% of women aged 18 to 24 suffered anxiety, the study found, more than trebling to 30.33% by 2018. The proportion of women aged 25 to 34 with anxiety more than doubled over that time, from 9.08% to 21.69%, while there were smaller increases among women aged 35 to 44 and 45 to 54.

The incidence of anxiety in young and middle-aged men followed the same trajectory, although fewer had been diagnosed when the study period started, a gender divide that has not narrowed. Generalised anxiety disorder trebled from 4.95% to 14.88% among men aged 18 to 24, more than doubled from 9.08% to 21.69% among those aged 25 to 34 and rose to a lesser degree among those aged between 35 and 54.

The surge was accompanied by a big rise during 2009-14 in sick days workers in England and Wales took off due to stress, depression and anxiety. Six in 10 (62%) of those with anxiety also had depression, they found.

“Given the steep increases in anxiety revealed by this research, and the sheer number of people affected, it is now clear that Britain has a really serious and worsening problem with anxiety, which can have devastating effects on people’s lives. And these data stopped just before the Covid-19 pandemic; we can only speculate on how they would look now.” Experts warned that the profound impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on people’s health, jobs and daily lives almost certainly meant anxiety had increased even further this year.

“Rates of anxiety crept up a bit from 1998. But suddenly there was this explosion in 2008 in both the absolute numbers and also in particular in women and especially young women. That’s when the increase went through the roof,” Freemantle explained. “These findings illustrate the human cost of what was going on in society at the time – that is, a recession. The 2008 crash was characterised by unemployment, especially youth unemployment. Young people who were just starting out in adult life had the rug pulled out from under them,” he added.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/sep/14/uk-has-experienced-explosion-in-anxiety-since-2008-study-finds

A uneducated worker who rebels is wiser than the most learned scholar who writes apologies for his chains.

Reforms will not abolish capitalism. Instead, reformists demand the re-distribution of profits. The World Socialist Party go further. We demand the abolition of the profit system altogether. We recognize the advances made by the capitalist system. The next and logical step is workers to assume common ownership of production and democratic control of it. Wage-labor does not mean prosperity, only a regular pay–check for those who aren’t “troublemakers.” 

When a ruling class is in a crisis, it cannot tolerate its government, its executive committee, posing as a friend of labor. This is too dangerous. It demands that its government become the overseer of labor. The ruling class does not always use such harsh language, of course. In the first stages it employs a milder tone. Hence the demand for “national unity.” This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it: “equality of sacrifice.” Carried out in practice – and practice is what the ruling class insists on – national unity is a demand for the working class to do all of the sacrificing, it is a demand for the subordination of working people to the ruling elite. 

Our business is to assist in the emancipation of our fellow-workers. This is our work. There must be no class doomed to toil through life as mere workers at wages. Humanity condemned to a world in which private property, the state and hard work are necessary consequences of the capitalist system.

Whoever wins the election, Tweedledum Trump or Tweedledee Biden, Wall Street will continue business as usual. A worker in revolt is wiser than the learned scholar who writes apologies for his chains.

Instead of being exploited by red-white-and-blue merchant prince, American workers may choose to be  exploited by a robber baron.  Marx and Engels said: The executive of the modern government is nothing but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole capitalist class. Most workers still think they can somehow use the capitalists’ own executive committee to get their own interests. But surely because labor has voted Democratic and Republican, we cannot expected it is fated to always continue voting Democratic and Republican. Workers should be fighting their own enemies not the ‘enemies’ of their enemies. The working class as a class is still capitalist-minded. It must yet take its first steps towards its own emancipation. Once one adopts the standpoint of the “lesser evil” theory we has conceded everything to Joe Biden and every stooge in the DNC and all the protestations about the value and necessity of a socialist party are reduced to zero. The Democratic and Republican Parties are both instruments of the capitalist class and therefore have the same essential philosophy. It would be futile to deny that the “lesser-evil” theory is alluring and easily deceptive or to overlook the fact that millions of workers will go to the polls in November and cast their ballots for Biden on this basis. Unless a socialist party organizes the dissatisfaction of the American people, other movements will arise to direct it along an anti-worker path.

 Change, not preservation of the capitalist state, is a basic component of socialism. There exists the myth of real difference between the two parties.  People choose the lesser of two evils, and sometimes the difference between the two evils is so small in their minds that they will choose because of the personality of the presidential contestants. The World Socialist Party believes it needs to fight for the interests of our fellow-workers against whoever occupies the Oval Office, and therefore will never endorse either the Republican or the Democratic Party. Tweedledum and Tweedledee are still twins even when one wears the smirking mask of Trump and the other, the smile of Biden.

It is in this light that the WSPUS put forward the argument – ’don’t vote on November 3rd – ORGANISE!’