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Who Killed The Electric Car?
The myth of “consumer power” hides who really makes the decisions.
Continue reading...Investing in Poverty
1. April 2006
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Jeffrey Sachs argues that too much poverty threatens the security of richer nations, causing wars and insurrections that cost more than it would cost to reduce poverty. Despite the title of his book, he doesn’t want to end poverty. He sees it as an investment opportunity.
Continue reading...Health and Social Policy
1. June 1999
While the authors of this book shatter "common sense" myths about health, they promote another myth – that health policy is shaped by science, when it is actually shaped by the needs of the capitalist system.
Continue reading...Caring for Profit in Canada’s Medical System
1. February 1999
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In Caring for Profit, Colleen Fuller exposes the corporate players and their allies in medicine and government who are opening Canada’s health-care system to market forces.
Continue reading...The Crime of Punishment
1. August 1997
In Violence: Our Deadly Epidemic and its Causes, James Gilligan dismantles the myths that most crimes are violent, that most violence is illegal, that most perpetrators are male, that most victims are female, and that violence will diminish if more criminals are imprisoned or executed.
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- Why California Health Workers are Voting for NUHW
- Hyatt housekeepers file mass injury complaint
- $19 billion stolen annually from US workers' wages
- Minnesota Nurses Authorize Strike for Patients' Rights
- Millions rally to oust Mubarak
- Wisconsin workers' rebellion
- B.C. outlaws older workers' right to claim for workplace injuries
- U.S. Nurses Rising!
- Kaiser Health Workers Take Back Their Union - Vote NUHW
- Workers Rights are HOT! Boycott "Bad Hotels"
- Mental Illness or Social Sickness? (21)
- Mothers Betrayed (16)
- How Capitalism Turns Intimate Relationships into a Battleground (11)
- The Virginia Tech Massacre: Cho Seung-Hui Delivers his Message (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)
- The Shocking Disaster of Capitalism (5)
- The Lessons of Chile
- Whose World? OUR World!
- “Civil Wars” ignores the political lessons
- One Million Kids on Anti-Psychotics
- Solidarity Divided: A Return to Class Politics?
- Professional Poison: How Professionals Sabotage Social Movements, and Why Workers Should Lead Our Fight
- 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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- Mass demonstrations rock Spain
- Flash Mob Occupies Wells Fargo
- Occupy Wall Street movement grows
- 23,000 nurses strike 34 California hospitals
- Angry Americans Occupy Wall Street
- Verizon workers strike back
- Nurses demand tax on Wall Street
- Spainish workers revolt!
- Wisconsin workers’ rebellion
- Millions rally to oust Mubarak
- $19 billion stolen annually from US workers’ wages
- Hyatt housekeepers file mass injury complaint
21. October 2006
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