Following years of statements from hundreds of women, it was the release of just one man’s emails that got the world to wake up to the truth about who is controlling the West.
Epstein was not just a child trafficker; he was a power broker between the global elite. Likely using the blackmail he had accumulated, he brokered security and business deals on Israel’s behalf all over the globe, from the UAE to India. In emails with Peter Thiel, the billionaire owner of Palantir, he plotted to destabilise Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Libya, Iran, Iraq, and Egypt.
We now know that Epstein was heavily involved in British politics; in one email, he states that Brexit was “just the beginning” of what the elites had planned for the UK. The emails paint a picture of Epstein being involved with Steve Bannon in cultivating a far-right network around the globe, with some of their emails discussing their hatred of Muslims and their dreams of eradication.
We have to take seriously the statements made by some of the victims, who have made it clear that they were trafficked by Epstein, Trump, and the “British Royal Family”. The BBC recently reported that Epstein had UK-linked flights that would sometimes have British victims on board. Yet there has never been one full UK investigation into his trafficking operation. However, this is nothing new in Britain, for it is built on institutions that cover up atrocities. Britain’s beloved Queen Elizabeth gave £7 million to silence Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s victim, Virginia Giuffre.
In a recent interview, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s former girlfriend, Victoria Harvey, explained on LBC that if your name did not appear in the files, it is not because you are a normal human being who is not involved in a global child trafficking ring; it is because you are a “loser”. And the truth is, we are the losers. We are the ones slaving away to pay for governments and billionaires to torture and cannibalise children while the planet burns.
All this leaves some uncomfortable questions for the working class to answer: Why are the British population not crying out for republicanism? Why do we accept that our tax money funds the most depraved crimes in society? Do we want to continue to take part in an economic system that allows for a class of men who are so powerful that they can rape, traffic, and torture children with no consequences?
In the wake of the files being released, there are a lot of things that remain uncertain. However, one thing we know for sure is that paedophilia is the result of unchecked patriarchy. This is because it is a system that allows for gender hierarchies, which in turn allow men to grant themselves complete sovereignty over women and children. Within both capitalism and patriarchy, having subordinates is a necessity for men to construct their masculinity. This power structure fulfils their sense of existence. Capitalism has further allowed patriarchy to expand beyond our control, allowing individuals with massive amounts of wealth to feel completely untouchable and make the working-class feel powerless.
We cannot become complacent or desensitised to the disturbing information being released in these files. We cannot allow the ruling class to decide that this will be deemed normal. The only way to fight this is through a working-class revolution. We need to completely withdraw our labour from capitalist corporations and monopolies and ensure we do not give them another penny. We need to withdraw the supply of money and power that these men continue to accumulate, as class consciousness is the only thing that stops the elite from being completely untouchable.
As a collective, we also have to make misogyny and paedophilia completely unthinkable within society and isolate those who choose to partake in such behaviour. On a large scale, this would involve dismantling systems and organisations, such as the royal family, and protecting this behaviour. On a smaller, personal scale, it would look like calling out your creepy uncle or your mates’ sexist jokes, which normalises paedophilia and misogyny at any level.
If we are truly serious about stopping corruption and child trafficking, we need to initiate a complete cultural change that does not allow men to base their worth on social and economic hierarchies. It is not race or creed that the names in the Epstein files have in common; it is class. The rich unite in their class, and so the working class have to do the same to put an end to the depraved corruption and suffering that Western leaders have created.
