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Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org@crossebarx· 26d

From the article which you clearly did not read:

Those who respond to Trump’s conspiracy by telling workers to wait and vote for Democrats in November are selling political snake oil.

There is no guarantee that elections will take place under anything resembling normal conditions. The Trump administration is preparing to determine which states have “secure” voter rolls, which voting machines may be used, which voters are eligible, and which state officials may be prosecuted.

At the same time, masked and heavily armed Immigration and Customs Enforcement death squads continue to roam American cities with impunity. None of the federal agents responsible for murdering Renée Good, Alex Pretti, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo or Johan Guerrero has been charged with a crime. Most of the killers have been identified only through independent journalism, not government disclosure.

The Democrats will not protect workers, citizens or longtime residents from Trump’s immigration Gestapo. There is no reason to believe they will defend democratic rights or oppose the transformation of the presidency into a dictatorship.

The Democratic Party surrendered the 2000 election after the Supreme Court installed George W. Bush. It paved the way for Trump’s first election, defended the institutions responsible for his rise and refused to prosecute Trump and his leading co-conspirators for the January 6 coup.

Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org@crossebarx· Jul 2

There is great nervousness in the United States, the center of world imperialism, that the growing popular opposition to capitalism will produce an independent socialist movement based in the working class, taking as its example the October Revolution of 1917.

Black-and-white historical photograph of Vladimir Lenin standing on an elevated wooden platform and addressing a large crowd of revolutionary workers and soldiers in Petrograd in 1920. Many in the crowd wear caps and military uniforms. Leon Trotsky stands to the right of the platform, watching as Lenin speaks.

Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org@crossebarx· Jul 2

New Cato poll finding: Gen Z is more favorable toward socialism than capitalism -- and is nearly evenly split on communism. Among Gen Z: 53% view socialism favorably 45% view capitalism favorably 38% view communism favorably 36% view communism unfavorably

Chart from the Cato Institute’s 2026 4th of July National Survey showing favorability toward capitalism, socialism and communism by age group. Among those ages 18–29, 53 percent view socialism favorably, compared to 45 percent for capitalism and 38 percent for communism. The same group is nearly evenly split on communism, with 38 percent favorable and 36 percent unfavorable. Favorability toward capitalism rises sharply with age, reaching 64 percent among those 65 and older, while support for socialism and communism declines across older age groups.

Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org@crossebarx· Jan 8

"As if Paul Revere rode through Mass. saying "the British want a show, don't give it to them.' "Dictatorship knocking on the door & Democratic Party urges restraint. Harris/Walz campaigned on increasing ICE funding & getting tough on border." - Eric Lee

Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org@crossebarx· Jan 8

Not worse, but not the solution. Here is a screenshot from her campaign ad in which Harris, flanked by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, pledged to pass the "toughest border control bill." Biden increased ICE funding while shutting down asylum. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

A medium-wide shot shows Kamala Harris standing at a podium on an airport tarmac, speaking directly to camera. She wears a dark blazer over a white blouse and has shoulder-length brown hair. Two microphones are positioned in front of her chest. Behind her, slightly to the right, stands a DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in a dark uniform jacket with an official patch on the chest. In the distant background, a large blue-and-white passenger airplane is parked, with two uniformed officers standing near its landing gear. Overlaid across the image in large white capital letters is campaign-style text that reads: “As Vice President” above the larger words “TOUGHEST BORDER CONTROL BILL.”

A screenshot of a press release page shows a large bold headline reading “PRESIDENT BIDEN SIGNS ANTI-IMMIGRANT SPENDING BILL REACHING TRUMP-ERA HIGHS.” Beneath the headline is a paragraph of body text. A long section of this paragraph is highlighted in light blue, drawing attention to its contents. The highlighted text states that the bill includes a dramatic increase in funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to surveil immigrant communities through tracking and ankle-monitor surveillance programs, rising from roughly $442 million to well over $470 million. It also states that more than $3 million is allocated for ICE to detain over 40,000 people in detention facilities and that Customs and Border Protection is given billions of dollars more to carry out enforcement operations described as violent assaults against immigrant communities.

Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org@crossebarx· Dec 23

CBS censors “60 Minutes” report on torture of immigrant detainees While the censorship of “60 Minutes” is particularly glaring, the corporate media is more and more directly subordinated to the social and financial interests of various oligarchs. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

On the left is a studio portrait of a Bari WEiss with long dark hair wearing a gray blazer, resting her cheek on her hand and looking calmly toward the viewer. Centered and extending into the background is a large red stopwatch graphic with the white text “60 Minutes.” On the right side, inside a the CECOT detention facility, a line of men dressed in white uniforms are bent forward and chained together while masked, armed guards escort them down a corridor lined with prison bars.

Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org@crossebarx· Dec 15

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙘 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙜𝙜𝙡𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙨𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙢 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙖 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙤𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙤𝙬𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥 𝙖𝙙𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙫𝙚; 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙥𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧, 𝙙𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙘𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙚𝙧𝙨’ 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙡, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣.

A black-background graphic with white text. The heading reads, “Conclusion.” The text states that no existing state today embodies genuine socialism. The struggle for socialism is not about slogans or top-down state ownership but about political power, democratic workers’ control, and international revolution. The passage concludes that the working class must organize independently, internationally, and politically to complete the tasks begun by the October Revolution and to prevent capitalism’s descent into deeper barbarism.

Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org@crossebarx· Dec 15

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙥𝙨𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙀𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣 𝙀𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙩 𝙐𝙣𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙙𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙤𝙬𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥 𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙩𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙢.

A black-background graphic with large white text. At the top it asks, “Are there any modern socialist countries?” Below, bold text reads, “Short answer: No — there are no modern socialist countries.” The paragraph underneath explains that while some states claim a socialist heritage or have large state-owned sectors, none qualify as genuinely socialist from a Marxist-Trotskyist perspective associated with the International Committee of the Fourth International. It defines socialism as a system where the working class democratically controls the major means of production and economic planning replaces market anarchy on a global scale, concluding that no country today meets these conditions.

A black-background graphic with white text. The headline reads, “Global context: capitalism, imperialism and the illusion of ‘state socialism’.” Below, a paragraph explains that the collapse of the Stalinist regimes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union showed that state ownership alone does not equal socialism. It references Leon Trotsky’s analysis in The Revolution Betrayed, distinguishing between the socialized property created by the October Revolution and the later bureaucratic degeneration that turned these forms into tools of a privileged caste. The text notes, citing David North and the International Committee of the Fourth International, that bureaucratic rule led either to the necessity of a political revolution to restore workers’ democracy or to the restoration of capitalism, which occurred with the Soviet Union’s liquidation in 1991. It concludes that nationalized property without democratic workers’ control can be transformed into capitalist property relations, with catastrophic consequences for the working class.

A black-background graphic with white text. The text explains that countries such as the People’s Republic of China present themselves as socialist because the Communist Party holds a political monopoly and directs large areas of investment. In reality, China operates as a capitalist economy characterized by market mechanisms, private capital accumulation, a domestic billionaire class, and integration into global imperialist supply chains. The Communist Party administers capital accumulation and suppresses working-class independence, which is incompatible with socialist democracy. A second paragraph adds that other regimes using socialist rhetoric or maintaining large state sectors also fail to meet the decisive criterion of socialism, namely the political power of the working class. It concludes that where state bureaucracies or party apparatuses concentrate authority, privileges, and property rights beyond democratic control by workers, social relations remain essentially capitalist or bureaucratically deformed rather than socialist.

A black-background graphic with white text. The headline reads, “Class analysis: who rules and in whose interests?” The text explains that the central issue in socialism is not formal ownership but which class exercises control and whose interests are served. It states that genuine socialism requires the working class, through independent organizations such as workers’ councils, rank-and-file committees, and democratically elected bodies of production, to hold political power and reorganize production for social need rather than private profit. It adds that where a bureaucratic caste or party elite controls state property while allowing market dynamics and private accumulation, the material interests of capital and a privileged bureaucracy prevail. A second paragraph argues that because of imperialist competition and the world market, socialism cannot be built in isolation. Citing Leon Trotsky and the International Committee of the Fourth International, it concludes that attempts to build socialism “in one country” are a reactionary illusion that historically lead to bureaucratization or capitalist restoration.

Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org@crossebarx· Dec 3

"The 'garbage' is in the White house and it stinks to high heaven." @davidnorth-wsws.bsky.social

A screenshot of a tweet posted by David North, chairperson of the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS.org). His tweet says, “The ‘garbage’ is in the White House and it stinks to high heaven.” Below it is a New York Times headline dated December 2, 2025 that reads, “Trump Calls Somalis ‘Garbage’ in Anti-Immigrant Tirade,” with a subheading noting that the fascist president has escalated his racist attacks on Somali immigrants.

Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org@crossebarx· Oct 29

Gregory Bovino, who is currently overseeing the Nazi-like occupation of Chicago dubbed “Midway Blitz,” has impressed the Trump administration and Republican Party with his thuggish, partisan and illegal tactics.

Gregory Bovino, fascist chief patrol agent of the El Centro Sector, standing for a photograph for CNN in a hallway wearing a Nazi-like Customs and Border Protection trench coat.

Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org@crossebarx· Oct 4

At first glance, more than a hundred years after Lenin’s death, it may seem surprising that the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung would feel compelled to verbally beat the great revolutionary to death once more.

The leaders of the 1917 Revolution, Leon Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin, in 1919.

Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org@crossebarx· Oct 3

FBI cuts ties with Anti-Defamation League under fascist pressure from Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr., neo-Nazis This rupture was not triggered by the ADL’s ongoing support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza or by its routine branding of anti-genocide demonstrators as “antisemites.”

ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt wearing a suit and dog tags in support of genocide in Gaza.

Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org@crossebarx· Oct 2

Given the extraordinary, criminal and unconstitutional actions of the Trump administration, the basic question is how to remove him from power. When the Democrats impeached Trump in 2019, it was not for his fascistic threats but over a delay in sending weapons to Ukraine.

California National Guard soldiers deployed to Los Angeles as part of Trump's drive towards a police-military dictatorship.

Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org@crossebarx· Sep 30

Stephen Miller is Trump’s Josef Goebbels; Hegseth is his Reinhard Heydrich.

Reinhard Heydrich a Nazi German official who was Heinrich Himmler’s chief lieutenant in the Schutzstaffel (“Protective Echelon”), the paramilitary corps commonly known as the SS. He played a key role in organizing the Holocaust during the opening years of World War II.

Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org@crossebarx· Sep 30

Trump and Hegseth assembled the military brass, told them they will be fighting the enemy within, and that America cities will be training grounds for the use of deadly force. The army is being converted into a US version of Hitler’s brutal Waffen SS.

Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org@crossebarx· Sep 27

The claim in NSPM-7 that “foundational American principles” include “support for law enforcement and border control” is historically absurd. Americans did not take up arms in the Revolution of 1776 because of their love of police or their defense of border guards.

Text from the September 25 memorandum reads:

The claim in NSPM-7 that “foundational American principles” include “support for law enforcement and border control” is historically absurd. Americans did not take up arms in the Revolution of 1776 because of their love of police or their defense of border guards.

Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org@crossebarx· Sep 26

Since Trump’s return to the White House federal workers have been consistently threatened and targeted with job cuts. Under the guidance of centi-billionaire oligarch Elon Musk and DOGE, tens of thousands of government workers have already been laid off, fired or bought out

Elon Musk gives a Nazi salute at an indoor presidential Inauguration event in Washington, Monday, January 20, 2025

Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org@crossebarx· Sep 19

In interviews and social media posts, Trump and his fascist minions are promising to revoke broadcast licenses from shows that do not properly venerate the aspiring Hitler.Jimmy Kimmel accepts the Outstanding Host for a Game Show Emmy on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025 at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.

Jimmy Kimmel accepts the Outstanding Host for a Game Show Emmy on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025 at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.

Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org@crossebarx· Sep 17

Going beyond the crackdown on teachers, professors, workers and students opposed to the genocide in Gaza, led first by President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party, Trump and the Republicans are criminalizing dissent by those who do not properly venerate Kirk...

Fascist Attorney General Pam Bondi on the Katie Miller Podcast

Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org@crossebarx· Sep 6

Outside, the streets of the American capital were patrolled by armed and masked soldiers, gripping assault rifles and supported by armored vehicles mounted with gun turrets, amid Trump’s occupation of major American cities as part of his effort to establish a dictatorship.

Armed National Guard soldiers clutch their M-4's while patrolling on the streets of Washington D.C.

Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org@crossebarx· Sep 6

Inside the White House, a newly-gilded Rococo ballroom seated 30 men and women representing corporations with a market capitalization greater than the gross domestic product of every country in the world except the United States.

President Donald Trump holds court with representatives from five of the six largest companies in the world—all multinational technology companies headquartered in America—pledging to expand their profits and accepting their praise and thanks.

Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org@crossebarx· Sep 3

Feel free to scroll through DSA's official X account. You won't find any mention of troop deployment in DC, Chicago or LA. You will find DSA retweeting of Jacobin magazine promoting Mamdani and other electoral maneuvers.

Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org@crossebarx· Sep 3

Here is the front page of Jacobin today. Again, nothing on Trump's coup, but there is an article promoting Mamdani aka AOC 2.0.

Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org@crossebarx· Sep 3

First picture is latest statements from Democratic Left, official DSA member magazine. None of them focused on Trump's coup, plans for military deployment to major US cities. As Trump was deploying troops in DC, Democratic Left published statement focused on electing Mamdani.

Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org@crossebarx· Sep 3

This is true. First picture is latest statements from dsausa.org. Nothing on troop deployment/Trump coup. 2nd statement is a mealy mouthed defense of AOC voting for weapons for Israel nearly two years into genocide.

Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org@crossebarx· Sep 3

It is a revolutionary thing to tell the truth. To say that the DSA has vocal on Trump's moves towards dictatorship would be lying. DSA claims to have 216 chapters.We did not say there were zero statements, only that the leading publications and organs have said "virtually nothing."

Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org@crossebarx· Sep 1

By falsely equating Trump’s federal intervention in private industry with “socialism,” Newsom signals his alignment with the financial and corporate elite and underscores the Democrats’ role in defending capitalist property relations at all costs. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

A stylized painting shows Donald Trump in a suit and red tie, standing in front of a large red flag featuring a yellow hammer and sickle with a star above it, resembling the flag of the former Soviet Union. The accompanying text from the “Governor Newsom Press Office” Twitter account reads: “ALL HAIL CHAIRMAN TRUMP! WITH HIS GLORIOUS 10% PURCHASE OF INTEL, THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF AMERICA ENTERS A BOLD NEW ERA OF GOVERNMENT-RUN BUSINESS.”

Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org@crossebarx· Aug 28

As the WSWS predicted, the 1619 Project gave ammunition to state and federal efforts to police education, ban books and enforce nationalist curricula, including most recently Trump’s attack last week on the Smithsonian Institution.

Cover of the 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones, a "New Origin Story" rooted in racism and historical falsification.

Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org@crossebarx· Aug 27

The latest ruling by the Appeals Court of the Nikolaev region against Bogdan Syrotiuk, & its distortion of an earlier ECHR ruling, underscore that the trial against Bogdan is part of an entire legal & political system that violates the most basic democratic & human rights of the Ukrainian population

Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org@crossebarx· Aug 27

The collapse of democratic norms and Trump’s escalating coup underscore a fundamental reality: democratic rights cannot be defended through either of the two corporate-controlled parties or on the basis of the capitalist system which they uphold.