The elections in the United States of America, with the degrading spectacle of the electoral campaign, as well as the opaque and undemocratic nature of the electoral system, portray the marked level of degradation reached by the US political system, which however arrogates to itself the right to give the world lessons in ‘democracy’. A system in which mechanisms and manoeuvres aimed at subverting the popular expression multiply, starting with the control of campaign funding by economic and financial groups, including those in the arms sector.
The election of Donald Trump as President of the United States - after his term in office from 2017 to 2020 - is the expression of a sharp economic and social crisis, with the deterioration of workers' living conditions, the discrediting of the ruling elites and the disillusionment of large sectors of the population with the Biden administration, which has defrauded the will and expectation of an effective change of policy at home and abroad - witness, among other serious and significant examples, the support for Israel's genocidal policy against the Palestinian people or the promotion of a dangerous escalation of confrontation at world level.
Recognising the substantial similarity on fundamental issues between the Democrats and Republicans, and noting obvious differences, and even cleavages, within the US ruling class, particularly on domestic policy measures and the way to counter the relative decline of the US, the election of Donald Trump, with his deeply reactionary agenda, not only represents the continuation and deepening of the policy at the service of the interests of finance capital, but also of the strategy of confrontation, interference and aggression aimed at imposing the domination of US imperialism at world level, with what amounts to a serious threat to peace, the sovereignty and rights of peoples, and international security.
The elections for the US presidency, as well as for the House of Representatives and the Senate, have laid bare even more clearly the deep problems, inequalities and contradictions that run through US society, for which the system is incapable of finding a way out and which are inseparable from the deepening structural crisis of capitalism, which has particular expression in the relative decline of the one which is imperialism's main power.
The PCP reaffirms its solidarity with the communists, progressive forces and sectors in the US who continue the struggle for peace, freedoms and rights, democracy, justice and social progress, and in denouncing the true nature of a system of power that is contrary to the interests of the US workers and people.
The PCP emphasises that, contrary to what the mainstream media suggests, it will not be the US, whoever its president may be, but the struggle of the workers and peoples for social progress and peace that will ultimately determine the course of world developments.
