Morning Star: “Head over heels into war” was the theme of this year’s Rosa Luxemburg Conference in Berlin, organised as ever by the Morning Star’s German sister paper Junge Welt.

And the voices of school strikers, trade unionists, human rights activists, economists and socialist campaigners throughout the day left no doubt that this is the trajectory of Germany and the whole of Europe.

The shadows of genocide in Gaza and the shredding of international law through US boat bombings, piracy at sea and the kidnap of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro loomed over the thousands who came to discuss how to stop a world war that looks ever closer….

Violence and instability radiate, above all, from the United States. Abolitionist Law Centre director Robert Holbrook — in a discussion as to whether the most powerful state on Earth is now on the brink of civil war — declared that ‘the American empire is dying. The facade of legitimacy is gone … the American people are realising that they live in a failed state.’

There was no consensus though on who was responsible for its decline, hence the considerable support for Donald Trump’s ever more extremist Maga movement.

‘Trump is deliberately dividing the American people… rewriting the rules of the post-World War II international order. Domestically and internationally the order is being reset — it brings chaos, but it also brings opportunity.'”

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