Smokescreens: How Working Kills Smokers
Smoking serves as a political smokescreen to hide the damage caused by occupational and environmental pollution.
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27. August 2012
Of Human Bondage: The Global Traffic in Disposable Labor
The international traffic in temporary workers is Capital's latest move to accumulate more wealth by lowering the price of labor.
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25. June 2012
Fighting to Win
"Reviving the Strike" argues that workers’ only real bargaining power is their ability to stop production and, to do this, workers must fight as a class. By abandoning these tactics, unions have lost their ability to defend the working class. Explains what it will take to revive the strike and regain lost ground.
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4. June 2012
Read it and Revolt
Autoworker Gregg Shotwell reveals how General Motors conspired with the United Auto Workers (UAW) bureaucracy to steal workers’ pensions, slash wages and shed jobs to help expand GM's global empire.
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11. March 2012
The Lessons of Chile: 1970-1973
Chile showed that a challenge to class inequality in the medical system is a challenge to the capitalist system as a whole. Consequently, any serious movement for reform must prepare to fight a class war.
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28. July 2009
Solidarity Divided: A Return to Class Politics?
"Solidarity Divided" argues that unions must undergo a fundamental transformation to champion the interests of the entire working class. Is this possible?
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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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18. May 2008
Mental Illness or Social Sickness?
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 effect of psychiatric “treatment” is to resign the discontented to their lot and drug the resisters into submission.
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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...20. August 2012
Recipe for a Massacre
As shocking as it was, South Africa's Marikana massacre was inevitable, and it will be followed by more such tragedies, and not only in South Africa.
Continue reading...20. February 2012
Hope for Life Beyond Capitalism
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...17. November 2011
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.
Continue reading...23. September 2011
“Civil Wars” Misses the Mark
"The Civil Wars in US Labor" chronicles the corruption, back-stabbing, power-grabbing, and opportunistic alliances that have characterized recent turf wars among American unions. Why did a generation of activists fail to democratize the unions, and what must we do differently to avoid repeating that failure?
Continue reading...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.
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.
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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
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
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.
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- Mental Illness or Social Sickness? (21)
- Mothers Betrayed (16)
- The Virginia Tech Massacre: Cho Seung-Hui Delivers his Message (12)
- How Capitalism Turns Intimate Relationships into a Battleground (11)
- 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 Return to Class Politics? (7)
- War in the House of Labor (6)
- POWER and Powerlessness (5)
- Smokescreens: How Working Kills Smokers
- Of Human Bondage: The Global Traffic in Disposable Labor
- Fighting to Win
- Read it and Revolt
- The Lessons of Chile: 1970-1973
- Solidarity Divided: A Return to Class Politics?
- The ABCs of 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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