The Trump administration's threat to cut off food stamps for tens of millions of people is one of the most brutal assaults on the American working class in history.
Beginning Saturday, 42 million people—one in eight Americans—who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will be suddenly confronted with the immediate prospect of hunger.
The threat to shut off food stamps is part of a broader social counter-revolution, which will not stop until the oligarchs behind Trump are finally expropriated, and society put under workers’ control.
This massive assault on the working class must be met with a mass movement of workers, uniting the fight against Trump’s developing dictatorship with the struggle against the capitalist oligarchy and the staggering social inequality that underlies his rise to power.
On Friday afternoon, two federal judges issued rulings rejecting Trump’s false claim that the government cannot use the $5.
Author's summary: Fight Trump's hunger plan now!