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Professional Poison: How Professionals Sabotage Social Movements, and Why Workers Should Lead Our Fight

7. June 2009

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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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RN to RN: A Conversation of Global Concern

17. April 2009

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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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The ABCs of Socialism

20. March 2009

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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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The Fight to Save Ontario Hospitals

9. February 2009

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The Fight to Save Ontario Hospitals

We need to build an active and militant campaign to save Ontario hospitals.

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Blood Money

23. November 2008

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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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America in Crisis: The Liberal Challenge and the Prospects for Socialism

5. October 2008

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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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Mental Illness or Social Sickness?

18. May 2008

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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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Class, Health and Health Care

30. April 2008

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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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Animal Rights or Human Responsibilities?

7. December 2007

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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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Striking Flint: Genora (Johnson) Dollinger Remembers the 1936-37 General Motors Sit-Down Strike

1. May 1996

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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.

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23. February 2009

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WE are the Union

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.

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1. February 2009

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Dalal - the only survivor in her family

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.

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25. January 2009

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Healthcare Not Warfare!

Healthcare Not Warfare!

The amount of global resources devoted to war indicates that our primary goal is to destroy ourselves.

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7. January 2009

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Israel Bombs Health Service in Gaza

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.

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1. January 2009

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Appeal from Gaza - Please Help Us!

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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18. November 2008

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In Palestine, not even the birds are free

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.

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12. September 2008

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Engels et le rapport de l’OMS

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.

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1. September 2008

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Engels and the WHO Report

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.

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29. August 2008

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My Pain, Their Gain

My Pain, Their Gain

by Jane Edgett -- Alberta used me to wipe out its deficit and justify privatizing its medical system.

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1. June 2008

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A Social Definition of Class

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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