Medical Rationing in the US and Canada
Both the U.S. and Canada ration medical services. In the US, rationing is based on ability to pay. Canada rations by under-funding the medical system, bringing inequality through the back door.
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1. September 2009
What Happened in Chile: An Analysis of the Health Sector Before, During, and After Allende’s Administration
by Vicente Navarro - In the early 1970s, Chileans fought for a democratized and inclusive National Health Service. The lessons of that struggle are critical to our fight for universal health care today.
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28. July 2009
Solidarity Divided: A Welcome Return to Class Politics
By refusing to fight the political class war, unions are losing the economic battle. Solidarity Divided raises the call for a new labor movement that will fight for the entire working class: union and non-union, employed and unemployed, all races, genders, sexual orientations, native-born and immigrant.
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7. June 2009
Professional Poison: How Professionals Sabotage Social Movements, and Why Workers Should Lead Our Fight
Professionals dominate social change organizations and also hold them back. Despite their good intentions, professionals are a conservative force. The skills they have acquired to serve an oppressive system are the opposite of the skills required to challenge that system.
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20. March 2009
The ABCs of Socialism
That people react so negatively to the idea of socialism indicates how deeply capitalism has damaged our connections with one another.
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23. November 2008
Blood Money
The billions of dollars being lavished on banks and other corporations is blood money. It's available only because people like Heather are being robbed of their kidneys, their health and their lives.
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5. October 2008
America in Crisis: The Liberal Challenge and the Prospects for Socialism
As America slips deeper into crisis, liberal efforts to preserve the capitalist system counter socialist efforts to replace it.
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18. May 2008
Mental Illness or Social Sickness?
A society based on exploitation and oppression must portray those who protest as sick or deviant. Instead of correcting the social sources of sickness, psychiatry extracts the individual from society, splits the brain from the body, severs the mind from the brain and drugs the brain.
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7. December 2007
Animal Rights or Human Responsibilities?
In their efforts to protect animals from unnecessary suffering, some people want to extend the fight for human rights and liberation to animals. While this sounds appealing, it confuses the meaning of rights and liberation
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1. May 1996
Striking Flint: Genora (Johnson) Dollinger Remembers the 1936-37 General Motors Sit-Down Strike
The spark that led to the unionization of the giant General Motors Corporation, and eventually of the entire auto industry, was ignited on December 30, 1936, when auto workers in Flint Michigan sat down and occupied their plants.
Continue reading...31. October 2009
Inequality: The Root Source of Sickness
America has the worst health statistics in the industrialized world because it is the most unequal society in the industrialized world. Social inequality affects the health of populations even more than access to medical care.
Continue reading...14. September 2009
Mental sygdom eller et sygt samfund?
Skrevet af Susan Rosenthal (oversat af Mikkel Marini -Min ADHD Blog) Når du er syg eller er kommet til skade, ønsker du at vide hvad der er galt, og hvad der kan gøres ved det. Du ønsker at få en diagnose. En korrekt diagnose afslører hvad der er galt, hvad der er den fortrukne behandling og hvad [...]
Continue reading...27. July 2009
Book Review: Solidarity Divided
by Immanuel Ness - Solidarity Divided is the first major work to address seriously - without personal attacks and exaggeration - the 2005 crisis and split of organized labor.
Continue reading...17. April 2009
RN to RN: A Conversation of Global Concern
"I’m struck by our similar concerns, even though we care for different kinds of patients in three different countries with different health-care systems."
Continue reading...23. February 2009
WE are the Union
by Eileen Prendiville -- The workers in UHW/NUHW remind us that the power of any union lies in the collective strength of its members. This message is sorely needed by a labor movement reeling from years of defeat.
Continue reading...9. February 2009
The Fight to Save Ontario Hospitals
We need to build an active and militant campaign to save Ontario hospitals.
Continue reading...1. February 2009
Dalal – the only survivor in her family
by Mahmoud Abu Aisha - When I used to write about the victims of Israeli crimes, I never imagined that one day I’d be writing about the unbearable misery of my own family.
Continue reading...25. January 2009
Healthcare Not Warfare!
The amount of global resources devoted to war indicates that our primary goal is to destroy ourselves.
Continue reading...7. January 2009
Israel Bombs Health Service in Gaza
by Patricia Campbell -- On December 31, the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme building was destroyed by Israeli bomber jets.
Continue reading...1. January 2009
Appeal from Gaza – Please Help Us!
by Mahmoud -- At 3:30 am, I can still hear bombs exploding all over Gaza.
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- Support NUHW!
- WE are the union - UHW fights SEIU takeover
- Israeli Soldiers Refuse to Serve in Gaza
- RNs Rally to Demand Nurse-to-Patient Ratios
- Norwegian Doctor Condemns Israel's War on Gaza
- Mental Illness or Social Sickness?
- SEIU Health Workers Fight for Union Democracy
- New York City protest against Israeli War - December 28, 2008
- B.C. outlaws older workers' right to claim for workplace injuries
- California Nurses March for Universal Health Care
- Mental Illness or Social Sickness? (20)
- Mothers Betrayed (16)
- How Capitalism Turns Intimate Relationships into a Battleground (11)
- The Virginia Tech Massacre: Cho Seung-Hui Delivers his Message (10)
- Inequality: The Root Source of Sickness (8)
- America in Crisis: The Liberal Challenge and the Prospects for Socialism (7)
- The Infinite Potential of the Human Mind (7)
- Solidarity Divided: A Welcome Return to Class Politics (7)
- The Shocking Disaster of Capitalism (5)
- War in the House of Labor (5)
- Medical Rationing in the US and Canada
- What Happened in Chile: An Analysis of the Health Sector Before, During, and After Allende’s Administration
- Solidarity Divided: A Welcome Return to Class Politics
- Professional Poison: How Professionals Sabotage Social Movements, and Why Workers Should Lead Our Fight
- The ABCs of Socialism
- Blood Money
- America in Crisis: The Liberal Challenge and the Prospects for Socialism
- Mental Illness or Social Sickness?
- Animal Rights or Human Responsibilities?
- Striking Flint: Genora (Johnson) Dollinger Remembers the 1936-37 General Motors Sit-Down Strike
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