New President -- Same Government

A Socialist Party of Massachusetts Statement

The dissonance between hope and reality with the swearing in of Barack Obama as the forty-fourth president of the United States is truly an amazing accomplishment of modern propaganda. After eight years, the “anybody but Bush” crowd has finally gotten a new president. Unfortunately, the entire spectrum of political debate has moved to the right. Once we cut through Obama’s fluffy rhetoric about change, and the irrational elation of his liberal supporters, we see very few campaign promises for which we would actually want to hold him accountable.

Under the pretext of a “War on Terror” the United States is fighting a war in Iraq, another in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and sponsoring a third by proxy in Palestine. While oil companies and military contractors are making record profits, corruption and malfeasance in the financial sector has pushed the economy to the edge of an abyss. The capitalist economy and its primary custodian, US imperialism, have remained stunningly rigid despite growing pressure to adapt to this crisis...

Read the full statement here.