Today marks 100 days since Donald Trump became US president for a second time. Here, we publish an extract from a document set to be discussed by the Revolutionary Communists of America, outlining the perspectives for class struggle in the USA.

The US-China trade war continues with neither Trump nor Xi yet blinking. Daniel Morley explores the ramifications and how fundamentally there will be no true winner, indicating not the madness of Trump, but the capitalist system itself.

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!