The 2024 US presidential election is, yet again, a contest of two geriatric war criminals. One, Joe Biden, has ruled for billionaires and for empire, doing nothing about cost-of-living, healthcare or climate change, while funding and arming Israel’s genocide in Gaza. But the other, Donald Trump, promises to be “a dictator on day one”, calls refugees “animals”, and leads a radicalizing extreme right on the warpath against women, trans people and immigrants.
Each electoral cycle, left-wing and progressive people are told to support the “lesser of two evils”, voting for Democrats to stop the Republicans making things worse. The stakes seem higher than ever, but the lesser evil is a trap. This session will explain why voting for the Democratic Party has never advanced the left, never stopped the far right, and sabotages independent, working-class struggles against capitalism and imperialism