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The socialist attitude to the tragedy of Luigi Mangione

The basic task of our time is the expropriation of United Healthcare and other major corporations by the working class in a socialist revolution, not “vengeance” against individual executives. Marxists oppose individual violence because it runs directly counter to this, replacing the action of the class with the action of desperate, angry individuals.

Tom Hall

Amazon strike in the US poses need for global rank-and-file strategy against hi-tech exploitation

Amazon workers must insist that their strike not be limited in advance by the Teamsters to only three days, which severely limits its impact during the height of the holiday shopping season. Instead, the strike must be guided by a strategy worked out and democratically enforced from below by workers, through rank-and-file committees made up of representatives from every Amazon facility.

Tom Hall

Record number of homeless school students in New York City—1 in 8

Fifty-four percent of these children spent some time “doubled up,” or unavoidably sharing the housing of others, while another 41 percent are in families that sought space in city shelters, leaving over 7,000 children who may have spent some nights on the streets or the subway system.

Steve Light