In another act of aggression against the whole world but especially the people of Russia and China, Trump recently proposed another thing that is both expensive and useless to working class people: Space Command (SpaceCom). Following closely behind the U.S. withdrawal from the INF treaty in which both the US and Russia agreed to stop developing intercontinental nuclear weapons, Trump undoubtedly has the aim of holding nuclear power over other countries from space. Earlier this year the Trump administration announced that they wanted to squander $14 billion of tax-payer money in order to carry out their plan of weaponizing space. Most of the world is already afraid of the United States and its hellish arsenal of weapons capable of leveling entire countries. If Trump’s plans are carried out, it’s not a far cry to say that the U.S. military would be capable of raining death from the heavens in their quest to force the world into submitting to the will of the capitalists they protect. We must not allow this to happen.
Working people have nothing to gain from this. We still don’t have healthcare, affordable housing or paid vacations, among other things, and yet the government has the audacity to give billions of dollars to morally bankrupt bomb and weapons manufacturers like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Boeing. People in Flint still depend on poisoned water and people in Gordon Plaza are still living on cancer-causing soil. The workers of this country continue to be trampled underfoot by the rich and powerful while our tax money is being wasted on weapons that threaten and kill innocent people around the world. We must open our eyes to see our real enemies who live lavishly in mansions and yachts that WE pay for.