The rallies from which these speeches come connect the historic tradition of international working-class solidarity w/ the struggle against imperialist militarism and the danger of a third world war today.

They also speak to the logic of the development of the two dynamics—

https://twitter.com/mehring_books/status/1919372905206464798

Explaining how the development of the class struggle is the key to intervening in the bourgeoisie’s plans to advance war and austerity.

It can’t be taken for granted this is all understood in a way that permits mass action—if it were, that would already be underway.

"To all those capable of self-sacrifice in the struggle against despotism and bestiality: Seek another road!
Not the lone avenger but only a great revolutionary mass movement can free the oppressed, a movement that will leave no remnant of the entire structure ...

https://twitter.com/DavidNorthWSWS/status/1766495882118135814

"...of class exploitation, national oppression, and racial persecution. The unprecedented crimes of fascism create a yearning for vengeance that is wholly justifiable. But so monstrous is the scope of their crimes...

"The vast practical importance of a correct theoretical orientation is most strikingly manifested in a period of acute social conflict of rapid political shifts, of abrupt changes in the situation. -- "In such periods, political conceptions & generalizations are rapidly used up & require either a complete replacement (easier) or their concretization, precision or partial rectification (harder).

#Trotsky, 1904: “In the lower strata of the people, in the very depths of the masses, a work was going on, a movement of molecules, imperceptible yet irresistible, incessant, a work of accumulating indignation, bitterness, revolutionary energy... “The atmosphere our streets are breathing now is no longer an atmosphere of blank despair, it is an atmosphere of concentrated indignation which seeks means and ways of revolutionary action...