One hundred years after the beginning of World War One, humanity faces the danger of a new and even greater catastrophe. Over the past month alone, the Obama administration has announced a new war in the Middle East in both Iraq and Syria. At the same time, the U.S. and its allies in Europe have seized on the crisis in Ukraine to issue direct sanctions and threats against Russia, the second largest nuclear power.

David North is an expert in socialist politics and the Russian Revolution. He is the chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist website and the author of The Russian Revolution and The Unfinished 20th Century.

In the Templo Mayor, Aztec Student Union.