Trump as president again?
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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/gop-senators-break-with-trump-on-these-2-points
The Socialist Party has always said that within a limited capitalist democracy, a personal dictatorship and Fascism cannot be established, can not even be established in Germany and Italy again. Trump is an authoritarian president, but he is not a dictator or a fascist, right wing movement is not the same as Fascism. Senators and house of Representatives ministers are moving away from Donald Trump
I think people are mixing up two very different things: collapse and decline.
I’m not saying capitalism will collapse by itself. History shows the opposite. It survives crises by adapting, restructuring, shifting power, and protecting property relations. The Great Depression didn’t end it. The 2008 crisis didn’t end it. Even world wars ended up stabilising capitalism rather than abolishing it.
What we are witnessing with the United States is not collapse but relative decline. US dominance is being challenged, alliances are shifting, trade relations are changing, and global competition is intensifying. But capitalism itself is still functioning: profits are being made, markets continue, and the state still defends the system.
That’s why changing political leaders does not change the fundamentals. The system remains intact.
Capitalism won’t disappear because it’s unjust or unstable. It will only be replaced when the majority consciously decide to replace it.We know that too, and the Socialist Party has published many articles about that and a pamphlet on Rosa Luxemburo has been published
These are the workers that Donald Trump and his gang were saying that they were eating cats, and the pets of the people of Ohio.
The Haitians reactivated several factories and economic sectors that were dying, and several small businesses were reactivated, too
It sounds like the Argentinian workers who were running factories, and then, when they were producing profits, the so-called socialist government( socialism of the XXI century ) passed a law to remove the workers, and the government and the capitalists became partners in crime.
No wonder why argentinian workers and Chileans voted for an anarcho-capitalist and a populist right-wing leader, and before the election, they dominated the congress, and now the presidency and the congress are controlled by the right-wingers
Gabriel Boric also sent troops to pacify the workers, like all the prior governments, like Bachelet, Salvador Allende, Frei and Piñeda
Capitalism overrules Trump and his nationalist agenda
It is going to be like Ronald Reagan, who approved an amnesty for millions of foreign workers after running a nationalistic campaign.
There is a shortage of labor, farmers are going bankrupt, and they are not deporting as many as they were planning to deport.
Barack Obama and Joe Biden were deporting more foreign workers than Trump, even though Trump has a bigger budget.
He does not want Republican leaders to talk about mass deportation; it was one of his campaign issues. The market system always prevails
Jobs are not coming back, and some industries have come back, but they are using robots for most of their operations, and they have kept their operations in foreign countries. They are just trying to avoid high tariffs
There is an article in the New York Times of 3/17/2026 ( a subscription is required ) describing how the government of Trump is changing its view toward emigration because there is a shortage of labor, and its plan of attracting white workers did not work. Some white South Africans who were brought to the USA are moving back
Mexicans are the ones who have the proper skills in this type of job, and the construction industry also has a big shortage of labor. These skills take time to learn.
The market system is hitting them in front of their own faces, and nationalism is not working. They want to have nationalism and expansionism at the same time
Trump issues a 60-day waiver century old jones act. Puerto Rico is under the same act. During the pandemic, many countries were not allowed to ship merchandise to Puerto Rico due to the John Act. It is a form of embargo
It looks like Donald Trump and his advisers thought that the war in Iran was going to be in and out immediately, like in Venezuela, but the consequences of this war are enormous.
They do not find a way to get out of the war, unless they declare victory, which was done by George Bush, and they spent 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan
They had to lift the economic embargo against Russia and against Iran to have more petroleum in the market, but the price of petroleum is already high, and the general prices of commodities are high too
The times of World War 2 are gone, and the only way to win a war is when the two opposing armies confront each other.
Iran is different from Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Kuwait, and Afghanistan
The supporters of private-enterprise capitalism are again accusing Trump of state capitalism:
So many accusations against the Soviet Union, China, Venezuela, and Cuba’s nationalisation of private property, but they are falling into the same hole. Capitalism is like a chameleon; it will adapt itself according to the colour of the world situation. The USA state apparatus is becoming a national private corporation. The socialist party has been on the correct path all the time: Capitalism is capitalism, it does not make any difference in the form it adopts, the anti-neoliberal must be happy now
https://movimientosociailistamundial.blogspot.com/2025/08/el-fin-del-neoliberalismo-lo-que.html. Neoliberalismo, the popular topic of the Latin American leftists, and Noam Chomsky
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/04/02/qfyu-a02.html
In genocidal rant, Trump vows to send Iran “back to the Stone Ages”
In a prime-time television address on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump declared that the goal of the United States in the Iran war is the destruction of Iranian society. “We are on track to complete all of America’s military objectives shortly, very shortly. We are going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. We are going to bring them back to the Stone Ages,” Trump said.
Trump threatened that unless the Iranian government accepts his demands, “we are going to hit every one of their electric generating plants very hard and probably simultaneously. We have not hit their oil, even though that’s the easiest target of all, because it would not give them even a small chance of survival or rebuilding. But we could hit it and it would be gone, and there’s not a thing they could do about it.”
In other words, if Iran does not totally capitulate and become effectively a colonial protectorate of the United States, Trump declared his intent to wipe out everything that sustains modern life for 90 million people and not give them “even a small chance of survival.”
There has never been an address like this given by an American president. Whatever the crimes carried out by former administrations, they were framed as the defense of democracy, self-determination and liberation. Now the American president’s message to the population of an entire country is: accept our demands, or die.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/04/02/eixp-a02.html
Trump attacks citizenship and voting rights
In oral arguments before the Supreme Court on Wednesday and in an executive order issued at the White House Tuesday afternoon, the Trump administration pressed ahead with a frontal assault on the democratic rights of the American people.The Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 17, 2024. [AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, ]
The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday morning on Trump v. Barbara, the case triggered by Trump’s issuance in January 2025, upon taking office, of an executive order purporting to do away with birthright citizenship.The order has been challenged repeatedly in court, based on Trump’s open defiance of the plain language of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which begins: “All persons born or naturalised in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
For 160 years, this clause has been understood to mean all children born in US territory, except those of foreign diplomats, are citizens. The application of this language to the children of immigrants was upheld by the Supreme Court in its 1898 decision in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, which upheld Wong’s citizenship rights based on his birth in San Francisco, even though his immigrant parents had been barred from naturalisation by the racist Chinese Exclusion Act.
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