Taking Sides Won’t Help.

Canada's Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freedland, hit back quickly and bitterly at Trump, for his announcement, on Aug.7, that he would reimpose a 10 per cent tariff on Canadian raw aluminum, because Canada had broken a promise not to flood the U.S. market with the product. Freedland called the decision, ''Absurd, useless and unjustified.'' She said Canada would retaliate within 30 days with $3.6 billion in import tariffs on U.S. goods that contain aluminum, and that imposing trade penalties in the middle of the pandemic is, ''unnecessary, unwarranted and entirely unacceptable.'' Freedland added that, ''Any American who buys a can of beer or a soda or a bike or a car, will suffer,'' though that would hardly bother a big creep like Trump. 

On the one hand we could say that it’s just another stupid trade war between rival capitalists, or their political stooges. But on the other hand, workers will, as Freedland pointed out suffer; nevertheless taking sides won’t help. There is only one way out of this mess and that is to get rid of its cause.

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