Whose World? OUR World!
Whatever the shape, composition and demands of these movements, the common denominator is CLASS ANGER – the rage of the oppressed against their oppressors.
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23. September 2011
“Civil Wars” ignores the political lessons
"The Civil Wars in US Labor" does not explain why a generation of activists failed to democratize the unions and what the next generation of activists must do differently to avoid repeating that failure.
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31. July 2011
“I got sick and tired of being treated like crap”
by Jane Edgett - Hundreds of thousands of Canadian families have been plunged into poverty by a workers compensation system that denies them support.
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20. September 2010
One Million Kids on Anti-Psychotics
Corporate America is awash in cash it stole from working-class families, whose distressed children are being labeled with mental disorders and drugged into submission.
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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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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 its victims and rebels 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...19. June 2011
How Liberals Justify Torture
Just because medical professionals are asked to assist with torture does not transform the torture victim into a patient and the torture chamber into a medical consulting room.
Continue reading...12. April 2011
No More Dictatorships: Build the Social Revolution!
The American people are ruled by the biggest, baddest dictatorship of all – the US capitalist class.
Continue reading...31. January 2011
Support the Egyptian Revolution!
Revolutions that topple tyrants can transform themselves into revolutionary movements that challenge all tyranny. This is what the ruling class most fears, not only in Egypt, but also in the US and around the world.
Continue reading...10. January 2011
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Hungry for Solutions
Gabor Maté’s books are commercially successful because they tap into popular awareness of social problems while avoiding the uncomfortable conclusion that social revolution is required to solve them.
Continue reading...3. January 2011
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Madness, Power and the Media
Author Stephen Harper explains how media images of madness and mental distress reflect and reinforce the unequal social relations of capitalism.
Continue reading...14. November 2010
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“We give them so much, and they give us so little back”
The members of UNITE-HERE Local 75 know that nothing is won without a fight and that class solidarity is the best medicine. They inspire us all.
Continue reading...20. September 2010
Should Physicians be Activists?
Dr. Roland Wong is under threat of losing his license to practice medicine. He helped people on social assistance get extra money for food.
Continue reading...5. July 2010
US Social Forum 2010 – We Need Unity in Action
Capitalism is trying to solve its financial problems by attacking all workers. We can defend our rights only by fighting back as a class. “An injury to one is an injury to all” means that we must treat every battle as our own.
Continue reading...5. July 2010
Support Detroit’s Emergency Medics!
Detroit medics who work for the city's Emergency Medical Service desperately need our support - please sign their online petition.
Continue reading...17. April 2010
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Assembly-Line Medicine
By expanding Taylorism to the service sector, capitalism has expanded the class struggle to every school and hospital. Opportunities have never been better to build a unified movement of the working-class.
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- America in Crisis: The Liberal Challenge and the Prospects for Socialism
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