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US Social Forum 2010 – We Need Unity in Action

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:32:59 +0000

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.

Assembly-Line Medicine

admin — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:10:30 +0000

By expanding Taylorism to the service sector, capitalism has expanded the class struggle to every school and hospital. Opportunities have never been better to build a unified movement of the working-class.

Professional Poison: How Professionals Sabotage Social Movements, and Why Workers Should Lead Our Fight

admin — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:21:41 +0000

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

admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:12:03 +0000

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

admin — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:55:03 +0000

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

admin — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:12:56 +0000

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?

admin — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:05:48 +0000

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

How Capitalism Turns Intimate Relationships into a Battleground

admin — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 21:07:23 +0000

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.

Whose Property?

admin — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 00:26:01 +0000

The differences between private, public, common and personal property are very important and rarely understood.

Alienation and Dissociation: The Two Sides of Powerlessness

admin — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:15:20 +0000

Alienation and dissociation reinforce each other to create a deep sense of powerlessness.