A workers' government in the United States, simply by laying its hands on the $1 trillion increase in wealth for 19 households, could abolish poverty, hunger and homelessness.
It could pay a wage increase of $7,000 to every American worker.
It could more than double the budget for K-12 public education.
In recent weeks, the WSWS has published several important commentaries on the American Revolution and the Civil War. These have been occasioned by anniversaries, but there is a more fundamental significance. Workers in the United States must learn the lessons of history.
The first American Revolution of 1775-83 proclaimed the equality of man. The Civil War, the second American Revolution, acted on that principle by putting an end to slavery. This meant, in practice, depriving the slaveowners of their property, that is, their revolutionary expropriation.
Today, there can be no solution to the great social problems of the contemporary United States without the expropriation of the billionaires.
The Socialist Equality Party calls for a break with the two parties of the capitalist oligarchy—the Democrats and Republican—which collectively ensure the domination of the ruling class over society.
In pursuing the class struggle to defend jobs, living standards and democratic rights, and to halt the threat of imperialist world war, the world Trotskyist movement urges workers to form new, independent class organizations, rank-and-file committees. These are based on rejection of the profit system and the capitalist nation-state, and seek instead to unite workers across national boundaries on the basis of their common class interests.
We urge workers and young people who wish to learn more about this perspective to attend the International May Day Online Rally on May 3.
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