In the early 1970s, Chileans fought for a democratized and inclusive National Health Service. Their experience can teach us much about the fight for health care as a human right.
Continue reading...17. November 2011
Whatever the shape, composition and demands of these movements, the common denominator is CLASS ANGER – the rage of the oppressed against their oppressors.
Continue reading...23. September 2011
"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.
Continue reading...20. September 2010
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.
Continue reading...28. July 2009
by Susan Rosenthal - "Solidarity Divided" calls for a return to the class-struggle politics that originally built the unions. However, these politics did not come from the unions, but from the socialists who were active inside of them.
Continue reading...7. June 2009
Middle-class professionals will keep undermining our unions and social movements until workers develop the confidence to challenge them.
Continue reading...20. March 2009
That people react so negatively to the idea of socialism indicates how deeply capitalism has damaged our connections with one another.
Continue reading...18. May 2008
Human beings protest their oppression with open rebellion and through symptoms of sickness and distress. The prison system crushes the rebels, medicine treats the sick, and psychiatry subordinates the distressed. The goal of psychiatric “treatment” is to resign the discontented to their lot and drug the resisters into submission.
Continue reading...7. December 2007
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
Continue reading...1. May 1996
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...20. February 2012
According to Michael Albert, past attempts to build socialism have failed, not because the capitalist class has been utterly ruthless in holding onto power, but because socialists have the wrong methods and goals.
Continue reading...31. July 2011
by Jane Edgett - Hundreds of thousands of Canadian families have been plunged into poverty by a workers compensation system that denies them support.
Continue reading...19. June 2011
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
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The American people are ruled by the biggest, baddest dictatorship of all – the US capitalist class.
Continue reading...31. January 2011
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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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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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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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
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
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.
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11. March 2012
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