Translated “Avante!” article by Jorge Cadima, Member of the PCP International Department

The USA elections express the system crisis. The outcome ought to contribute for an ulterior deepening of that same crisis. Within the USA and throughout the world.

All the electoral process reflected a deep popular discontentment. In result of the USA workers life level loss for 40 years, and the obscene enrichment of a more and more restrict minority, in liaison with the great and parasite financial capital and the military-industrial complex, which governs the country. The USA explosive situation, is for a long time, of growing violence, both individual ( shootings and massacres), and stately (police assassinations). Along with some data , as mortality increase among the white adult population , which has, therefore, provoked a fall in life expectation (in New York Times, 2015.11.02 and 2016.04.20). And an outstanding fact, revealed by a Disease Prevention Control Centre, DPC, in 2014 (quoted in wsws.org, 2016.1105) : among children, between 10 and 14 years old, suicide is the second death cause, the number of suicide deaths overpass car accidents. The USA workers are themselves, victims imperialist globalization and the capitalism great crisis, deindustrialization, unemployment, constant salary levels lowering.

Placed before two system candidates, both millionaires, millions of North-American answered by abstention, voting in other candidates or ( a paradox but foreseeable) in who – being a system candidate – bragging out to be a system enemy. It is tragically revealing that, whilst the Democrat Party candidate, an imperialist aggression falcon, assumed the role of the War Party candidate, supporting the anti-Russian bellicose deliriums, the result ought to be Trump, the Republican candidate, that seemed to be the voice of reason by alerting for war dangers between the two greatest nuclear powers, within the planet. The future ought to prove Trump’s words meaning.
Soon after the elections, a good deal of the very violent insults between the two candidates, were replaced by praise. Trump, who developed his campaign by stating Hillary ought to be imprisoned, hastily thanked her three decades of service to the country. And Hillary, who went through her campaign by using a conspiring delirious thesis, that Trump were to be a Kremlin agent, rushed to wish him all the luck, asking to he be given the opportunity to rule .Conscientious of the deep popular discontent that spreads through the USA, both stopped revolt feelings growing amid the people throughout that great country, expressed on the streets and the workers’ struggles.

However, Trump’s candidature, besides trying to conduct discontent in favour of the system – and create conditions to it therefore become more aggressive and anti-popular – reflecting real cleavages amid the USA dominant class. Cleavages that are, in their own, a product of the system’s growing crisis and the conscience of its gradual weakening, whilst the centre of world imperialism. Visible cleavages concerning the EU reactions to Trump’s election. Juncker states that “ Trump’s election runs the risk of undermine the intercontinental relations foundations and structures”, and says: “One ought to teach the president elect what Europe is and how it works” ( in Deutsche Welle, 2016.11.11). The German minister of the Defence, concerned about the electoral considerations on NATO and Putin, states that Trump “ought to choose on what side he stands” (in DW,2016.11.11). In the same direction, the NATO secretary –general, in an Observer text( 2016.11.13) considers “ highlight the deep concern amid the European military circles with the new American president”.

One thing is certain: both in the USA or the EU, the order is to militarize. All peoples have nothing to expect from the great capital advocates, but exploitation, misery and war.