American citizens of all backgrounds are aware that the United States’ healthcare system is rife with inequality, needless complexity, and exorbitant expenses. What the wealthy and the bourgeoisie fail to comprehend is how the working class — who are inundated with the violence of medical debt and denied claims — would rightfully celebrate the assassination of former UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The common sentiment of citizens has been that he deserved to die for the suffering his company has inflicted on the 7.5 million people that are supposedly covered by their insurance.

Hundreds of immigrants have been deported around the country after President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 for the first time since World War II. Using a centuries-old wartime law to target alleged members of a Venezuelan gang (Tren De Aragua), the new administration continues to arrest, detain, and deport more and more people while the bourgeois media focuses on legal battles against the administration that will take months to resolve.

While we must safeguard against abusers of the party, organization, and member’s trust, it is paramount that we maintain both our social character towards justice as well as consideration for the material realities of these abuses and the ability of an organization to take on the rehabilitation of the offender.