This Labor Day, as workers gather in hundreds of cities and towns across America, one question dominates above all others: How will the transformation of the United States into a military-police dictatorship be stopped?
Trump is operating in the White House as a fascist. He has deputized gun thugs and masked men to terrorize cities and working class communities. Trump is beginning with immigrant workers, but it will not stop there. Having deployed the military and National Guard to Washington D.C., he threatens to send troops into Chicago and every major American city. The specter of Hitlerism now stalks the United States.
Economically, workers face unprecedented attacks on their living standards, as the Trump administration claws back all the gains won by prior generations of workers through decades of struggle. Trump’s tariffs function as a regressive tax on working families and small businesses. Cuts to Medicare and Medicaid threaten healthcare for tens of millions and are only a prelude to the gutting of Social Security. Social inequality is at historic levels. Cultural institutions are being decimated, as Trump seeks to establish ideological control over all of society.