Trump’s proposal is nothing short of another Nakba: the forced expulsion of two million Palestinians from their land.

Democracy under capitalism is capitalist rule. And it’s the most stable form of capitalist rule: by allowing for elections and the peaceful transfer of power between parties, the masses can express their political dissatisfaction, while real power stays in the hands of capital.

Around the globe, imperialist powers are pumping a never-before-seen amount of cash directly into the deep pockets of the arms manufacturers, all while the vast majority are struggling to get by.

The guns have fallen silent in Gaza, for now. After fifteen months, a ceasefire agreement has brought a pause to the relentless genocidal killing of tens of thousands of Palestinians and the near total destruction of the Palestinian enclave by the state of Israel.

World capitalism is in serious trouble, and American capitalism is at the heart of the rot. Trump’s unenviable task is to manage the systemic crisis of capitalism, and in particular, US imperialism’s relative decline.

The ferocious blaze threatening to swallow America’s second largest city is a product of the capitalist system in terminal decline.

What we see is not the struggle to establish a more just world system, but rather the struggle between different imperialist robbers for the division of the loot.

One can sense panic and demoralization on the left. Trump’s election and the rise of right-wing populist copycats like Pierre Poilievre in Canada could give the impression that there is a shift to the right in society in general. That would be to misunderstand the situation.

Three shell casings found at the scene reportedly had the words “deny,” “defend,” “depose,” written on them, presumably a reference to the labyrinthine nightmare that companies like United present to their “customers” during some of their darkest moments.

The victory of the Islamists has nothing to do with strength on their part, but rather with the extreme rottenness and weakness of the Assad regime. Like a rotten apple it fell at the slightest jolt.