The Trump Government Will Deepen the offensive of Capital Against the Periphery and the Working Class

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There is much speculation about the destiny of the US and the capitalist system with Trump at the head of the hegemonic power, and even more so with its "protectionist" pronouncements.

Interestingly in Davos, home of the WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM, it was the Chinese ruler Xi Yinping who defended globalization and the opening of the world economy.

From SEPLA we say that the Latin American working class of the new US government can not expect anything favorable. The struggle between protectionist and globalizing fractions of capital can generate multiple policy mixes, but all of them will be inscribed within the capital offensive to shift the impacts of the crisis to peripheral countries and subordinate classes. The hegemonic capital has been, to a greater or lesser degree, protectionist in the central countries at the same time as and I seek the total liberalization in the periphery.

It is worth mentioning that the major capitalist states have generated an international structure of agencies and rules for the liberalization of the dependent world, with all guarantees So that the protectionist practices they deploy themselves can not be modified.

It is important to note that Trump's triumph and, earlier, Brexit's victory, show that social discontent with globalization - measured in terms of job losses, low incomes, impoverishment and inequality growth - finds its political representation In ultra-right and ultranationalist forces.

It speaks of a crisis in political thought and practice that is alternative to the capitalist order and commits us to deepen the critical study of the reality of contemporary capitalism. To dive into the recognition of anti-capitalist practices that are processed around the world and systematize a theoretical conception for change and revolution.

With the Trump government, the capital offensive and the imperialist role of the United States - most likely with policies of a higher level of intervention and bellicosity - will be deepened to impose its interests on the rest of the world. Faced with this exacerbation of the contradictions between work and capital, we commit ourselves as SEPLA to continue the struggle to articulate adequate responses with workers and peoples to move a path of social emancipation, against capitalism and imperialism.

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