We’ll he can kiss his Nobel prize goodbye though this immensely vain man doubtless now imagines that throwing his weight around in the Caribbean puts him in the same league as Alexander the Great and Napoleon. Others dismiss him as a senile old man with delusions of grandeur. But at the end of the day it’s not what Trump thinks that counts – it’s what those who put him back into the White House want.
The Trump administration seeks to “Make America Great Again”, largely at the expense of its own allies, and boost American manufacturing through tariffs and protectionism while using secret diplomacy, military force and economic blackmail to achieve its goals. Gone are the days of the “West”, the “special relationship” and the “new world order”. British and Franco-German imperialism once believed that accepting American leadership would give them a share of the spoils. But the “West” has gone. They can scrabble around with their “coalition of the willing” all they like. They’ll get nothing from Trump & Co.
American “isolationism” means Big Oil, Silicon Valley, Aerospace and the rest of their manufacturing sector. It’s the other side of the reactionary coin – the thinking of those sections of the American ruling class that realise that world domination is beyond their grasp and so seek to restore their hegemony in the Americas and much of the Global South while maintaining their control of the world’s oil and energy market. But even this may soon prove to be beyond their reach.
When the Americans moved to normalise relations with People’s China in 1972 the Chinese side stressed that “wherever there is oppression, there is resistance. Countries want independence, nations want liberation and the people want revolution – this has become the irresistible trend of history”.
It was true then and it’s true now. Most of the Donbas is free. The Ukrainian fascists are on their last legs. The Israelis have failed to crush the Palestinian resistance in Gaza. The Venezuelan government has not collapsed.
The world communist movement says imperialist aggression must be confronted. Maduro must be immediately and unconditionally freed and all the revolutionary, working-class and popular forces of the world must mobilise and express active solidarity with the Venezuelan people resisting American aggression.
The Trump administration seeks to “Make America Great Again”, largely at the expense of its own allies, and boost American manufacturing through tariffs and protectionism while using secret diplomacy, military force and economic blackmail to achieve its goals. Gone are the days of the “West”, the “special relationship” and the “new world order”. British and Franco-German imperialism once believed that accepting American leadership would give them a share of the spoils. But the “West” has gone. They can scrabble around with their “coalition of the willing” all they like. They’ll get nothing from Trump & Co.
American “isolationism” means Big Oil, Silicon Valley, Aerospace and the rest of their manufacturing sector. It’s the other side of the reactionary coin – the thinking of those sections of the American ruling class that realise that world domination is beyond their grasp and so seek to restore their hegemony in the Americas and much of the Global South while maintaining their control of the world’s oil and energy market. But even this may soon prove to be beyond their reach.
When the Americans moved to normalise relations with People’s China in 1972 the Chinese side stressed that “wherever there is oppression, there is resistance. Countries want independence, nations want liberation and the people want revolution – this has become the irresistible trend of history”.
It was true then and it’s true now. Most of the Donbas is free. The Ukrainian fascists are on their last legs. The Israelis have failed to crush the Palestinian resistance in Gaza. The Venezuelan government has not collapsed.
The world communist movement says imperialist aggression must be confronted. Maduro must be immediately and unconditionally freed and all the revolutionary, working-class and popular forces of the world must mobilise and express active solidarity with the Venezuelan people resisting American aggression.
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