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The only ones who have benefitted from the past 18 years of economic measures have been a tiny handful of parasitic billionaires whose wealth, buoyed by the stock market bonanza, has increased exponentially. And the rest of the world is paying the price.
Generations of Americans have been told that as long as you earn a college degree, you can land a white-collar job and have the same kind of job security as your parents or grandparents. Now a slowing economy paired with the rise of AI has made white-collar jobs more precarious than ever.
“If you work hard and play by the rules, you’ll get ahead.” Thus, the “American dream” has been ingrained for generations. But in our era of capitalist decline, millions of American workers have completely lost faith in this idea.
With AI mania driving unprecedented investment in the tech sector, Wall Street punters are racing to get a piece of the gold rush. A colossal correction is only a matter of time.
By pushing American debt up to even more eye-watering and unsustainable levels, Trump is further undermining trust in US treasuries (federal government bonds) as a “safe haven” for global capital.
For decades, the world economy has been kept afloat by the life support of credit. In this way, they have fed a monster, which now threatens to devour its master.
Momentous events are transforming the world as we know it. With Trump causing political and economic upheaval globally, the pent-up contradictions of nearly two decades of capitalist crisis and stagnation are reaching a fever pitch.
The Revolutionary Communists of America reject Trump’s cynical efforts to make the workers of the world pay for the crisis of American capitalism.
Faced with this world-historic turning point, the bourgeois press has been forced to acknowledge the relative decline of US imperialism more bluntly than ever.
American workers are drowning in debt, while the ruling class plans to cut social spending to stave off its own creditors.
Wall Street’s wild fluctuations appear like a mysterious force, able to make billions of dollars appear or vanish. What’s really happening on the stock market?
Despite the removal of Trump’s shockingly high tariffs, China has made no concessions. The epoch of US-sponsored “globalization” is decisively over.
The Communist is the official newspaper of the party of the Revolutionary Communists of America. It is different from any other publication you’ll find in the US today. Behind this newspaper, there’s a vast network of communist activity from coast to coast. It is a tool for organizing in the streets, at protests and strikes, for building communist cells in our neighborhoods, workplaces, and campuses.
The RCA is on a mission to carry Bolshevism into the political arena of a country that’s ripe for it. Yes, we’re Bolsheviks living in the digital age, and we also use social media and our podcast to spread the communist program. But we’re not the kind of internet leftists who stay inside and “do politics” online. That’s why we need something we can carry with us into the streets and put into people’s hands. The physical paper is an instrument for building a real-life organization—a genuine Communist Party of fighters.