I delivered this lecture to the 2025 Summer School of the Socialist Equality Party (US).
The lecture is part of a series covering a crucial chapter in the history of the Fourth International.
This chapter deserves much wider study and appreciation. https://t.co/L149oiBCNy
There's no question that Israel wants this war, and the role that it's playing and has been playing is absolutely criminal. But the claim that the US has been dragged into this war by Israel is false. The tail may wag very vigorously, but it's the dog that's running the show.
It's said Trump has "no strategy" for the war against Iran. In fact the US and European imperialists have a very real strategy, which is to attempt to restore colonial domination all over the world. The ruling elites have declared, "Slaves you were, and slaves you shall be."
On Sunday, the World Socialist Web Site is sponsoring an international webinar to outline a strategy and program to stop the brutal imperialist onslaught against Iran. The aim of this discussion is to place this event in its appropriate historical, political and social context.
The role of the Democratic Party in enabling the war against Iran makes it the accomplice of Trump. They have funded every weapon now being deployed against Iran. AOC repeated the administration’s regime-change talking points at the Munich Security Conference.
The US descends into the abyss: Trump's Oval Office remarks: "Just about everything has been knocked out.” - “They’re going to be in for a lot of hurt.” - “It’s very dangerous out there, a lot of bombs are being dropped.” - “most of the people we had in mind are dead" - "We’re hitting them very hard."
A famous scene from the Godfather. The warning given by Don Corleone to his son will be heeded, in the aftermath of February 28 assassinations of Iranian leaders, by any head of state invited to negotiate with the US government.
https://t.co/jr1GAbdFnu
@richimedhurst US trade union bureaucrats are aligned w/US ruling class’ geopolitical interests in imperialist wars.
Pls interview socialist UAW worker @WillforUAWpres
on his UAW Prez campaign’s demands for a int’l general strike
https://t.co/1HVXhEPWCG
Trump and Hegseth launch “total war” against Iran. There is an element of insanity, but it is an insanity rooted in class interests. The war is driven by the imperative of American imperialism to counter its economic decline through military violence. https://t.co/K9KQd5aBMc
History teaches that it is a mistake to predict a war's outcome based on the "successes" of attacks launched by the aggressor in the opening days, weeks and even months of the conflict. Trump and his cabal have started a war whose consequences they neither foresee nor control.
Do you think a dictatorship is being established in the United States?
"100 percent... We've literally got American citizens being shot dead for trying to peacefully observe an ICE protest... We shouldn't be invading other countries."
Who's going to pay for the war against Venezuela?
"Obviously us. It will be us. Our tax dollars will go directly to that. Am I comfortable about it? No, I'm not, at all... We had a thousand people here laid off before Christmas... It is set up for the rich to only get richer."
2025 is coming to a close under conditions of extraordinary crisis, as the ruling class turns to fascism, dictatorship and war. The critical issue is building a socialist leadership in the working class. Take a stand! Donate to the WSWS New Year Fund! https://t.co/jEdXFiNY5G
@WSWS_Updates I tried out the programme yesterday and used up all the free questions. The AI applied the Marxist method amazingly well. Only the German translation leaves something to be desired in places. Hats off to the developers! They created a very useful tool for educating the masses. 👌
This is a Library of Alexandria for the cyber era.
The World Socialist Web Site has combined new technological advances with its unrivaled collection of Marxist writings to create a new educational tool, which makes critical knowledge accessible like never before.
Welcome Socialism AI!
The launch of Socialism AI marks a significant new stage in the fight for socialist consciousness, to clarify political perspective and to prepare workers and youth for the escalation of class struggle that will define the second half of the 2020s.
https://t.co/gcponvT2Jr
On Friday, December 12, 2025, the World Socialist Web Site will launch Socialism AI, a chatbot that will use the power of amplified human cognition to advance the development of socialist consciousness in the international working class.
"In these ICE raids they're not only picking up immigrants but US citizens, especially workers, to control the masses. When we come together and mobilize... black, white, hispanic, all fighting to make change. That is what they fear the most."
student at Wayne State in Detroit
The SEP is still taking Covid seriously, while the ruling class response to the pandemic has demonstrated the inability to address basic public health, along with everything else, within the framework of capitalism.