Speech Delivered at an Anti-Trump Inauguration Day Rally

The following speech was delivered by a member of the Greater Miami Local Committee of the CWPUSA at a rally against the inauguration of President Trump.

Today, we gather not as isolated individuals but as a united force against a system that profits off our labor, robs us of our dignity, and threatens to plunge the world into continuous chaos and crisis.

Donald Trump, freshly inaugurated, stands as the face of a capitalist system that thrives on division, exploitation, and bourgeois war. We stand against Trump and the entire ruling class he represents. But let us be clear: the blame does not rest on one man alone, he is not an anomaly or aberration but a product of this ever-decaying, parasitic system. Both the Republicans and the Democrats—two heads of the same bourgeois hydra—serve their capitalist masters to sustain capitalist-imperialist domination as all imperialist nations do, and to pit workers against one another in their insatiable pursuit of profit.

Under the guise of "America First," Trump and his cronies promise a future built on the backs of workers at home and abroad. They wave flags, chant slogans, and tell us to celebrate their brand of "strength." But what does this strength mean? It means sending our people to die in wars fought for oil, markets, and power—wars waged not in our name, but for the ruling class. This system thrives on war because war is profitable. It demands sacrifices—not from the bankers, not from the CEOs, but from us: the workers, the oppressed. They tell us there’s no money for healthcare, no funding for schools, no relief from inflation—yet there’s always money for bombs, tanks, and endless bloodshed.

We refuse to pay the price for their greed.

Ultimately, Trump has always made it abundantly clear that he serves and represents the interests of the ruling class.  Most apparently with Elon Musk's high-visibility presence and open admission of upcoming severe austerity measures targeting the working class that will lead to our class experiencing "hardship." It is to no one's surprise that the wealth of the world's ten richest individuals increased by $64 billion dollars after Trump's victory, triggering a surge in the stock market in anticipation of financial incentives for the ruling capitalist class. With the election secured, Trump and his administration are no longer even pretending to stand up for the American worker against the economic elite. Trump does not represent "real blue-collar" Americans, and is just an element, part and parcel, of his so-called "Deep State" system. 

Trump is not merely an American phenomenon. He is a part of a wave of right-wing populist parties around the world who have successfully attracted the support of the working class by advocating for robust welfare states, albeit through chauvinism, nativism, and ethno-nationalism. In the absence of strong workers' organizations, the working class feels frustrated, helpless, defenseless, and unable to be seen or heard.  

Now the media is screaming about the working class "leaving the left parties for the right ones in search of a better life," but never forget for a second that the Republicans and Democrats are both bourgeois parties who represent their respective factions of the ruling class and compete for supremacy within the parameters of the capitalist state--exploiting workers all the same. They may appear to have different styles, focuses, rhetoric, but fundamentally, they maintain and protect the capitalist system. They manage capitalism. This division is often exploited to polarize, divide, and distract the public from class-based solidarity. Because then that organization would threaten their rule, their power, their hold. The bourgeoisie will fight viciously to keep their grip on this decaying economic system,  and so we must fight ever harder, tooth and nail, for the liberation of our class. 

We know that the path they offer leads only to ruin: a world engulfed in flames, with the proletariat bearing the cost. But there is another path: a path of solidarity, resistance, and revolution.

Let us reject their wars and fight our own. Not wars between nations, but a war against the system that exploits us all. Let us forge solidarity across borders, recognizing that the enemy is not the worker in another country—it is the ruling class in every country.

We stand for peace, but not the peace of submission. We stand for justice, but not the justice of the oppressors. We stand for revolution, because only through the power of the proletariat can we dismantle the machinery of capitalist-imperialism and build a world where the resources of the Earth serve humanity, not profits. 

We stand with the workers and people who will only be subjected to more exploitation and oppression under Trump. We stand with migrant workers who will be under increased threat under Trump. We stand with queer and trans people who are in ever-increasing danger under Trump. 

So I ask you: Will you let them send your people to die for their empires? Will you allow them to dictate the terms of your life while they grow richer off your suffering? Or will you rise, fight, and refuse to be pawns in their deadly game?

We, the Communist Workers' Platform USA, recognize the unavoidable and inescapable need for a communist party. We recognize that reforms do not suffice, that social democracy lays the groundwork for fascism, that the further management of capital prolongs capitalism, a band aid will not cure this festering wound, that time is of the essence, that the world is burning and our class is suffering. And so the only cure, the only salve, the only solution is communist revolution and the communist party.

The choice is ours, comrades. The time is now. There is only one way out. The ruling class has their political leadership, the working class needs theirs! Thus, we say, organize to fight!

BUILD THE COMMUNIST PARTY!