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Real Conflicts Between US Ruling Class Factions – Workers Must Reject Both
Some comrades have said the sharpening conflict between the Trump fascists and the liberal wing of the ruling class is just “political theatre.” They argue it’s staged to distract workers from capitalism itself. But while both factions serve the same system, the fight between them is real—and dangerous.
Trump and his allies had openly threatened to “go after” their opponents. Now they’ve called for prosecuting former President Obama for “treason,” a charge punishable by death.
One result is the circulation of AI-generated videos showing Obama being arrested. These fakes are widely shared in right-wing circles, feeding fantasies of revenge and reinforcing the belief that liberal politicians are part of a criminal conspiracy. These digital lies are today’s equivalent of fascist show trials and fake newsreels from the 1930s.
The Epstein affair was weaponized by both sides. Trump’s camp used it to smear liberal elites as part of a global child-trafficking ring. Meanwhile, liberals highlight Trump’s close ties to Epstein—his parties, his quotes, and now a letter Trump sent to Epstein that was recently published by the Wall Street Journal. Trump is suing the Journal for printing it, calling it defamation and election interference. Each side accuses the other of monstrous crimes. This is not about truth or justice. It’s about building political movements.
We also see signs of the sharpening conflict in Trump’s efforts to cancel or punish liberal institutions. He has defunded PBS and USAID, fired officials at the State Department seen as disloyal, and encouraged the cancellation of liberal TV host Stephen Colbert. Internationally, Trump is trying to shield fascist Jair Bolsonaro—now out of power in Brazil—from conviction by Lula’s liberal government, which is charging Bolsonaro with treason for attempting a coup.
This is not theatre. It’s preparation for fascist terror and possible civil war.
Of course, liberals are no friends of the working class. Obama deported millions and expanded imperialist wars. Liberals want to preserve capitalism with illusions of democracy and legal reform. Fascists want to strip away those illusions and impose open dictatorship. Their goal is to force workers into slave-like labor for war production, crush dissent, and unleash terror.
We must reject both factions. The working class needs its own revolutionary party — the International Communist Workers’ Party — to lead the fight not for ‘democracy’ or liberalism or socialism, but for communism. A world without wage slavery, without bosses, without borders.
That’s why we build ICWP today. That’s why we expose the lies of both fascists and liberals. And that’s why we must take the danger of fascism seriously—not to rally behind our liberal enemies in blue suits, but to fight for a red future.
— West Coast Comrade
Let’s Fight for Communism and Nothing Less to Eliminate All the Bosses
Fascist terror is being unleashed on the working class now. The genocide in Gaza. Mass ICE raids in the US. Layoffs worldwide. Preparation for wider war and deep cuts for war budgets. Worldwide. ALL capitalists rely on racism and nationalism to divide the workers, not just some groups of capitalists. The decadent sexist Epstein scandal and attacks on Obama are sideshows to divert us from fascist attacks on our class, expanding war, and the communist solution.
In this period of crisis and widening world war, the entire capitalist system needs fascism. To terrorize the working class, divide us, make us work for less and less pay, and push vicious racism to try to win us to kill other workers in their wars for their profits and empire, or force us to.
While it’s true that some push more open racism and fascism and others claim to oppose this, the fact is that the capitalist system is imposing fascism. They don’t have the “luxury” of giving crumbs to the masses as they prepare for World War and deepening economic crisis. Those capitalist politicians who claim to oppose the open racists and fascists are the most dangerous. They try to fool the masses into supporting capitalism, racism, war, deportations, and wage slavery. But supposedly “less fascist, more legal.” They portray themselves as against racism because they want a patriotic multi racial army and slave labor force.
All the ruling classes are building racism and nationalism. They all support wage slavery and paying some groups of workers less than others. Capitalism needs to divide its wage slaves to try to keep us from uniting against them. They support borders, immigration laws, deportations, and imperialist war.
The differences between open fascists like Trump and liberal politicians like Gavin Newsom (California Governor who wants to win the angry masses to support the Democratic Party) are secondary. They both support capitalism. They both hate and attack the fight for communist revolution. Their disagreements are over the tactics of fascism, not how to abolish it.
The liberal politicians tell us to be passive and just trust them in the face of growing fascism. Instead, we have confidence in the masses of workers, youth and soldiers to mobilize against fascism, racism, and imperialist war and for communism.
In the US, many are standing up to ICE. With struggle and persistence, these angry masses and those in motion worldwide mobilizing against genocide in Gaza and spreading war in Iran and Israel can be won to fight for a communist world without borders, imperialist war, and wage slavery. To turn the bosses’ war and fascism into revolution for communist workers’ power.
We need to and will clearly expose the open fascists and the social fascists (liberals) and win the masses to fight for communism.
—Comrade in the US
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