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Smokescreens: How Working Kills Smokers

5. April 2013

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Smoking serves as a political smokescreen to hide the damage caused by occupational and environmental pollution.

Fighting to Win

25. June 2012

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"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.

Read it and Revolt

4. June 2012

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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.

The Lessons of Chile: 1970-1973

11. March 2012

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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.

Hope for Life Beyond Capitalism

20. February 2012

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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.

Whose World? OUR World!

17. November 2011

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Whatever the shape, composition and demands of these movements, the common denominator is CLASS ANGER – the rage of the oppressed against their oppressors.

“Civil Wars” Misses the Mark

23. September 2011

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"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?

Inequality: The Root Source of Sickness

31. October 2009

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America has the worst health statistics in the industrialized world because it is the most unequal society in the industrialized world. Social inequality affects the health of populations even more than access to medical care.

What Happened in Chile: An Analysis of the Health Sector Before, During, and After Allende’s Administration

1. September 2009

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What Happened in Chile: An Analysis of the Health Sector Before, During, and After Allende’s Administration

by Vicente Navarro - In the early 1970s, Chileans fought for a democratized and inclusive National Health Service. The lessons of that struggle are critical to our fight for universal health care today.

Solidarity Divided: A Return to Class Politics?

28. July 2009

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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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Smokescreens: How Working Kills Smokers

Fighting to Win

Read it and Revolt

The Lessons of Chile: 1970-1973

Hope for Life Beyond Capitalism

Whose World? OUR World!

“Civil Wars” Misses the Mark

Inequality: The Root Source of Sickness

What Happened in Chile: An Analysis of the Health Sector Before, During, and After Allende’s Administration

Solidarity Divided: A Return to Class Politics?

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