EDITORIAL
60 Women against the Global Elite

Mar 2, 2026

What follows is the editorial that appeared on the front of all SPARK’s workplace newsletters, during the week of February 22, 2026.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, a former prince of England and the brother of the current King of England, has been arrested.

No one should believe, however, that thousands of women were about to get justice—the ones who had been traumatized by Jeffrey Epstein and his network of wealthy men like Mountbatten.

No, Mountbatten was not charged with rape, nor charged with sexual abuse of minors—both of which he could have been. The evidence of his viciousness lies in the Epstein files.

After he was brought in, he was charged only with handing a United Kingdom trade document over to Epstein 16 years ago. By nightfall, he was back home again.

In other words, it was just “more of the same.” The wealthy elite in this capitalist world continue to be protected from consequences for their monstrous behavior.

The only reason there has even been something called the Epstein files is that an investigative journalist for the Miami Herald made it her mission to dig out how Epstein got off almost without any criminal charges—despite the well documented fact that he and six associates had organized and benefitted from a network which trafficked young girls. Even pre-teen girls were offered as sex toys to the wealthy men who ran in Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit.

Epstein’s orbit included bankers, businessmen, CEOs of major corporations. It included politicians with their hands out for graft. It included churchmen and well-known professors, doctors and lawyers. It would have included beggarmen and thieves—if there had been any wealthy enough. Some of them came for kinky sex. Many came to be included in a far-flung financial network linking them to other wealthy people.

Wall Street, Hollywood, Washington, D.C., Silicon Valley, NASA, Fashion, Real Estate, Harvard and MIT– they were all represented.

In this capitalist society, where money is the measure of everything, Epstein was a broker who greased capital’s wheels.

Jeffrey Epstein was a deal-maker, someone who provided what other people wanted, someone who introduced people to other people, someone who found sources of money to be invested in a company that needed a quick investment, no questions asked. He kept secrets and held them to use as leverage against those who used his “services.”

Julie K. Brown is the Miami Herald reporter who blew fresh air through Epstein’s putrid closet. Other reporters had focused on Epstein. Instead, Brown sought out the women who once had been Epstein’s victims.

It took her several years to locate just 60 of them. There were many more she couldn’t find, women who had disappeared into drug abuse, prison, the streets or an unmarked grave.

But these 60 could reveal who came to Epstein’s island. Many had heard about the deals, all the crooked machinations of a capitalist society based on the theft of labor’s product. Did the men who abused them think they had no ears?

Before his suicide in prison—his supposed suicide—Epstein let it be known that he had information on Trump’s financial crimes. “I’m the one who can bring Trump down,” he wrote. Then he was found dead in an unguarded cell, for which the cameras had been shut off.

On hearing about the arrest of Mountbatten-Windsor, Donald Trump had this to say: “I have been totally exonerated.”

Exonerated? The Department of Justice may have scrubbed the Epstein files before releasing them, but there has been no exoneration. Not for Trump, not for Clinton, not for anyone.

The Epstein case lives on because of the bravery of these 60 women. Their stories describe the reality of a rotting capitalist society wherein even the bodies of young girls can serve as currency.