[D66] North speech

[J.N.]

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/05/04/pers-m04.html

Socialism and the struggle against war
4 May 2015

This perspective is the text of the speech delivered by David North,
chairman of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board
and national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (US), to open the
May 3 International May Day Online Rally.

On behalf of the International Committee of the Fourth International and
the World Socialist Web Site, permit me to extend fraternal greetings to
the many listeners all over the world, in more than 60 countries, who
are participating in this Online Celebration of May Day 2015.

The purpose of this rally is threefold:

First, to give voice to the opposition of the international working
class to the relentless escalation of military violence that, unless
stopped, threatens to engulf the entire world in a catastrophe of
unimaginable dimensions.

Second, to provide an analysis of the main causes and dynamics—economic,
geopolitical and social—of the global crisis that is the driving force
behind the militaristic policies being pursued by imperialist and
capitalist governments all over the world.