Alan Woods – editor of In Defence of Marxism – comments on the situation in the USA, where it was announced last week that President Donald Trump has contracted COVID-19, amidst a farcical presidential election and the greatest crisis in the history of US capitalism.

We are living through a turning point in history with no parallel. The entire system is in crisis and consciousness of developing in leaps and bounds across the world. Our urgent task is the building of a revolutionary organisation.

Julian Assange’s extradition hearing resumed earlier this month. Every trick in the book is being used in order to crush and silence the whistleblower – all on the part of US imperialism. Socialists must defend Assange and the right to free speech.