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Decay of US rulers ‘world order’ opens room to fight
Editorial
Vol. 82/No. 35
September 24, 2018
The U.S. capitalist rulers’ liberal imperialist world order, imposed
following their emergence as the victor from the second imperialist
world slaughter, is decaying and coming apart at an accelerated pace
today. And some of them recognize this.
The Donald Trump White House has ceased operating on the false premise,
one that guided the last several Democratic and Republican
administrations alike, that the U.S. rulers can dominate the world in
the mistaken belief they won the Cold War. While Washington has great
military superiority over all other world powers, it can no longer
simply impose its will through bloody wars. This has been proven in
Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere.
In Korea, President Trump is negotiating with the government of the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, where the U.S. rulers had up to
now refused to even sign a peace treaty from a war that ended 65 years
ago. If working people keep the pressure on Washington, the door is open
for ratcheting down tensions, steps to total denuclearization of the
region, opening economic cooperation between the North and South, and
reunification of the country, long a desire of Koreans on both sides of
today’s massively fortified Demilitarized Zone.
Washington has begun talks with the Taliban, which controls wide swaths
of Afghanistan despite the U.S. rulers’ 17-year-long war there.
NATO, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the European
“Union,” the G-7 and more are decaying, less and less useful for the
capitalist rulers.
And the actions of the Trump presidency are pushing this process
forward. The rival capitalist ruling classes everywhere are scrambling
for position.
“Trump may be one of those figures in history who appears from time to
time to mark the end of an era and to force it to give up its old
pretenses,” former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told the Financial
Times.”
Ending the war in Afghanistan, signing a peace treaty with North Korea
and similar moves in other parts of the world would be good for the
working class everywhere, regardless of the intentions of the U.S. and
other capitalist rulers. It opens needed political space for workers to
discuss, debate and act in our own interests.
The current uptick in production and jobs around the world will not
last. Capitalism is a system in decline. It offers nothing to humanity
except more economic, social and moral crises. But it won’t fall of it’s
own weight.
The Socialist Workers Party fights to build the labor movement, to
discuss the road forward, to strengthen ties of solidarity with each
other around the world, to build a party capable of leading the
revolutionary mobilization of the working class and its allies to take
power out of the hands of the capitalist class and open a new era for
humanity.
Join us!
In This Issue
Front Page Articles •Demand US rulers sign peace treaty with NKorea
•‘Workers need independence from capitalist state, parties’
•Iraq protests demand gov’t provide services, end to Tehran interference
•Liberals’ frenzy against Trump falters in face of workers’ distaste
•Join fight against prison censorship of ‘Militant’ in Florida, Illinois!
Feature Articles •Mexico election registers crisis for capitalist
rulers, parties
Also In This Issue •Steelworkers authorize strikes at U.S. Steel amid
contract talks
•‘Convict Chicago cop who killed Laquan McDonald’
•Workers at Whole Foods, Target take steps to organize
•Sankara books welcomed at NY Burkina Faso festival
•Kentucky UFCW workers strike at Four Roses plants
Editorials •Decay of US rulers ‘world order’ opens room to fight
On the Picket Line •Chicago hotel workers fight for health care, higher
wages
•Miami airport workers rally, press for union contract
Books of the Month •‘First years of Communist Party heroic part of our
continuity’
As I See It •Gangs, drugs and violence are built into capitalist rule
25, 50 and 75 years ago
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