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US Social Forum 2010 – We Need Unity in Action

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.

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.

In Palestine, not even the birds are free

18. November 2008

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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.

A Social Definition of Class

1. June 2008

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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

War in the House of Labor

20. April 2008

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Two major unions, CNA and SEIU, are locked in battle. Should we take sides or support rank-and-file unity? (See postscript on recent CNA/SEIU merger)

How Can We Organize Across National Borders?

8. September 2007

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How Can We Organize Across National Borders?

Two principles are key to organizing across national borders: self-determination and solidarity.

How Capitalism Turns Intimate Relationships into a Battleground

25. August 2007

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How Capitalism Turns Intimate Relationships into a Battleground

Capitalism creates impossible conditions for both sexes. Because meeting human needs would cut into profits, people are deprived of what they need and then shamed for feeling needy. As resentment builds, we attack our loved ones instead of the system that keeps us deprived.