Socialist Equality Party (US) National Congress adopts resolution on the coronavirus pandemic and the fight for socialism

[wsws.org]

{The third stage began with Trump’s June 1 press conference at the White House, at which he declared his intention to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy the military against the protests. This initiated the administration’s ongoing attempts to establish a presidential dictatorship. While this initial coup attempt was not successful, the SEP warned in a statement on June 4, cited in the resolution, that “nothing could be more dangerous than to think that the crisis has passed. It has, rather, just begun.”

This warning was confirmed even as the SEP Congress was meeting, with the deployment in Portland, Oregon of federal paramilitary forces operating under Trump’s command. Anticipating the threats over the past week by Trump to delay or cancel the upcoming elections, the resolution warns: “Regardless of which party wins the election—and that requires the debatable assumption that the election will be held—the tendencies that found such noxious expression during the Trump administration will persist and worsen.”

The Democrats responded by ceding all opposition to Trump to the military, while escalating their own campaign to divert social opposition. “The sections of the capitalist class and the affluent middle class aligned with the Democratic Party,” the resolution states, “always extremely sensitive to any sign of working class militancy and socialist influence, intervened to hijack the demonstrations and misdirect them along explicitly racialist lines.”

Congress delegates participated in an extensive discussion on the background to the Democrats’ racialist campaign, legitimized by the New York Times 1619 Project, to rewrite American history:}

The Socialist Equality Party and the work here on WSWS have fairly called every step of the last 7 months almost to a tee. This is probably the most valuable place to come to for one to find an informative correlation to our political direction and need for change within a socialist manor.

{The resolution also warned of the escalating preparations by the United States for war. Both Trump and the Democrats, moreover, are committed to an expansion of war abroad. The resolution states:}