The articles at right were posted this past week, prior to the departure of Steve Bannon—a hard-core fascist who was Trump’s chief strategist—from the Trump administration. In our view, they remain highly relevant to the situation we face right now.

As for Bannon: before he became Trump’s campaign head during the closing months and then chief strategist once Trump was elected, he was head of the Breitbart News Network website, fomenting fascism and white supremacy. As Bannon himself has remarked, he feels he can fight more effectively for the fascist program outside the administration than inside; in other words, his hands will be freer both to attack the regime’s opponents (including those within the regime and the ruling structures more broadly that Bannon deems not fascist enough) and to whip up and further shape the fascist social base that Trump has relied on for his ascent, and which the regime requires for its advance. All this is facilitated by Bannon’s return to head Breitbart.

Moreover, as Trump himself insists, Trump was able to mobilize a fascist base and essentially seize the Republican nomination well before Steve Bannon came on board—and as Trump has shown not only since Bannon’s departure but during the recent period of what is reported to be Bannon’s diminished influence in the White House, he is acutely aware of the need to continue to mobilize this base and to defend it, even when that causes him problems. A further point: one difference being reported between Bannon and those who are not leaving the regime is that the ones who are staying are, if anything, much more militarily aggressive in the immediate term than Bannon.

So—again, as this past week shows—the fate of Steve Bannon means nothing positive in terms either of the unleashing of the fascist social base that Trump has so cultivated or of the nuclear adventurism that Trump has been flaunting over the past months.

In short: Bannon’s departure does nothing to diminish, and in some ways heightens, the urgent need to build for massive mobilization on November 4 to actually drive this regime OUT!