The meeting was held one day after millions demonstrated in more than 2,000 cities and towns across the country on Saturday—a historic outpouring of opposition to Trump's assault on immigrants and democratic rights.
On Sunday evening, Trump responded with a fascistic rant ordering "the largest Mass Deportation Program in History," directing ICE and federal police to carry out mass raids in major cities. He denounced immigrants as criminals, labeled the protests illegitimate, and called for an extralegal crackdown on political opposition. As the WSWS wrote in its Perspective column published this morning, this is not merely rhetoric, but a deliberate incitement of fascist violence.
In this context, our meeting on Sunday addressed the critical political questions that must be urgently taken up:
What is the class basis of Trump's coup?
Why is the Democratic Party paralyzed in the face of it?
What historical and economic processes have led to the breakdown of American democracy?
And what is the role of the working class in building the political leadership necessary to stop dictatorship and fight for socialism?
The social force that must be mobilized to stop dictatorship and war is the working class. As Will Lehman emphasized, it is the working class that is "the social force in society that can wage that fight—that produces all the profits, that moves all the products."
Mobilizing the working class requires that a political leadership be built. Addressing the historic significance of the protests, David North explained that they are "the beginning," and the great challenge is "to impart to this massive sentiment of opposition a clear political perspective, a socialist perspective, one which connects the fight in defense of democracy to the struggle against capitalism, which is the real cause of the drive toward dictatorship, the threat of fascism, and of course the eruption of global war."
We urge all those who want to fight Trump's coup to:
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