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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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."
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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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9. February 2009
The Fight to Save Ontario Hospitals
We need to build an active and militant campaign to save Ontario hospitals.
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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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30. April 2008
Class, Health and Health Care
This pamphlet explores how healthy profits create sick people, how class determines health more than any other factor, how Canada and the U.S. both ration medical care (in different ways), how all existing medical systems are disease-care systems, and what a genuine health-care system might look like.
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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...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...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.
Continue reading...18. November 2008
In Palestine, not even the birds are free
by Patricia Campbell -- Two weeks before our medical conference was scheduled to begin in Gaza, Israel denied entry visas to all the foreign delegates who had been invited to participate.
Continue reading...12. September 2008
Engels et le rapport de l’OMS
Engels - A chaque instant du jour le Capitalisme commet un meurtre social. Il a placé les travailleurs dans des conditions qui ne lui permettent ni de garder la santé, ni de vivre longtemps. La classe capitaliste connait le danger pour la santé que représentent ces conditions de travail, en ne fait pourtant rien pour les améliorer.
Continue reading...1. September 2008
Engels and the WHO Report
On August 28, the World Health Organization announced that "INEQUALITIES ARE KILLING PEOPLE ON A GRAND SCALE." Has anything changed since the 19th Century? Find out in this fictional interview with Frederick Engels.
Continue reading...29. August 2008
My Pain, Their Gain
by Jane Edgett -- Alberta used me to wipe out its deficit and justify privatizing its medical system.
Continue reading...1. June 2008
A Social Definition of Class
A social definition of class explains why the capitalist class will never put people first, why the middle class will always try to contain the forces of rebellion, and why only the working class has the numbers, the power and the motivation to replace capitalism with an egalitarian socialist society
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- Engels and the WHO Report
- Mental Illness or Social Sickness?
- America in Crisis: The Liberal Challenge and the Prospects for Socialism
- The Myth of Scarcity, Managed Care and Modern Malthusians
- Animal Rights or Human Responsibilities?
- Wanted: Health Care not Disease Care
- Class, Health and Health Care
- A Social Definition of Class
- The Fight to Save Ontario Hospitals
- My Pain, Their Gain
- Mothers Betrayed (16)
- Mental Illness or Social Sickness? (13)
- How Capitalism Turns Intimate Relationships into a Battleground (11)
- The Virginia Tech Massacre: Cho Seung-Hui Delivers his Message (9)
- America in Crisis: The Liberal Challenge and the Prospects for Socialism (7)
- The Infinite Potential of the Human Mind (7)
- The Shocking Disaster of Capitalism (5)
- War in the House of Labor (5)
- Appeal from Gaza - Please Help Us! (5)
- Class, Inequality and Illness: What's Missing from the Health Care Debate (4)
- Professional Poison: How Professionals Sabotage Social Movements, and Why Workers Should Lead Our Fight
- RN to RN: A Conversation of Global Concern
- The ABCs of Socialism
- The Fight to Save Ontario Hospitals
- Blood Money
- America in Crisis: The Liberal Challenge and the Prospects for Socialism
- Mental Illness or Social Sickness?
- Class, Health and Health Care
- Animal Rights or Human Responsibilities?
- Striking Flint: Genora (Johnson) Dollinger Remembers the 1936-37 General Motors Sit-Down Strike
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