Last week’s killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has unexpectedly made the suspect a folk hero and triggered a tsunami of class rage over the US’s barbaric healthcare system. This sudden surge in class consciousness is a hopeful sign for revolutionaries, but it also shows that it will take more than lone avengers to combat the capitalist class.
The movement for Palestine is unprecedented in its radicalization of wide layers of society. But there are many demoralizing factors, from unending news of the genocide to vicious state repression. How do we make the movement stronger? The solution is democracy: building engaged membership in democratic organizations, training them as organizers themselves, and making them active participants in the struggle.
The global wave of Gaza solidarity encampments has reinvigorated the Palestine liberation movement and made undeniable ideological advances, but failed to win many material gains. A sober analysis of the student movement’s strengths and weaknesses provides important lessons for the struggle against Zionism, imperialism, and capitalism.
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