
President Trump’s recent ‘pausing’ of tariffs has done little to slow the full-scale trade war. These protectionist measures only serve to highlight the limitations of capitalism. To avoid destitution, workers must fight for revolution!

Protectionist trade wars. Jingoism and rearmament. Austerity and attacks on the working class… Did someone set the clock back to the 1930s? To combat the coming catastrophe, we need a global revolution against the billionaire class.

Trump is set to announce a barrage of new tariffs, in an attempt to stem the decline of US capitalism. Here, Niklas Albin Svensson outlines the Marxist position on the ‘free trade vs protectionism’ debate, and how tariffs will impact the world economy.