As more information from the Epstein files come to light, we learn with outrage, sadness and disgust about only some of the atrocities inflicted on women and children by Jeffrey Epstein and his associates, who notably include sitting U.S. president Donald Trump, himself a convicted criminal abuser of women. 

These crimes illustrate, perhaps more clearly than ever, the total contempt for women and children by the billionaire class, as objects to be used for their personal enjoyment. These horrific acts aren’t the isolated indiscretions of a lone predator or predators: child abuse, sex trafficking, sexual assault, and the humiliation of women at the hands of the wealthy elite are policy choices, inevitable under a capitalist system that shields the wealthy elite by allowing them to concentrate power to exploit without limit and without consequence. 

Put simply, if you build a system where some people are effectively untouchable in the eyes of the law, those people are going to behave like they are untouchable.

This system that enables the abuse of girls in mansions and on private islands is the same one that wages violence against immigrants in detention centers, against homeless people sleeping on the street, against the millions of people held in jails worldwide, and against the international working class, exploited for their labor by the same wealthy elite.


We stand firmly in solidarity with the women and children who have been crushed by the full weight of this capitalist system. DSA fights to overthrow this system of oppression and replace it with one free of exploitation and abuse, and where no one escapes justice. Join us in this fight: dsasf.org/join.