Behind Trump’s chaos there is a logic. Trump is upending the established order in an attempt to advance the interests of American capitalism. His policies have helped rehabilitate the old status quo, the supposed “rules based order”. This “order” was an alliance of powerful countries, including the US, Europe, the UK, Japan, Australia and others, who used economic or military pressure to rig the world in their favour. Socialists stand opposed to both. This talk will explain the changing features of world imperialism and how the real alternative we need is a politics of anti-imperialism.