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Smokescreens: How Working Kills Smokers
Smoking serves as a political smokescreen to hide the damage caused by occupational and environmental pollution.
Continue reading...The Lessons of Chile: 1970-1973
11. March 2012
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.
Continue reading...“I got sick and tired of being treated like crap”
31. July 2011
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...How Liberals Justify Torture
19. June 2011
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.
Continue reading...Hungry for Solutions
10. January 2011
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...Madness, Power and the Media
3. January 2011
Author Stephen Harper explains how media images of madness and mental distress reflect and reinforce the unequal social relations of capitalism.
Continue reading...Should Physicians be Activists?
20. September 2010
Dr. Roland Wong is under threat of losing his license to practice medicine. He helped people on social assistance get extra money for food.
Continue reading...One Million Kids on Anti-Psychotics
20. September 2010
Corporate America is awash in cash it stole from working-class families, whose distressed children are being labeled with mental disorders and drugged into submission.
Continue reading...Support Detroit’s Emergency Medics!
5. July 2010
Detroit medics who work for the city's Emergency Medical Service desperately need our support - please sign their online petition.
Continue reading...Assembly-Line Medicine
17. April 2010
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.
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- 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)
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- The Lessons of Chile: 1970-1973
- Solidarity Divided: A Return to Class Politics?
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- Mental Illness or Social Sickness?
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