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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.
Continue reading...Solidarity Divided: A Return to Class Politics?
28. July 2009
by Susan Rosenthal - "Solidarity Divided" calls for a return to the class-struggle politics that originally built the unions. However, these politics did not come from the unions, but from the socialists who were active inside of them.
Continue reading...Book Review: Solidarity Divided
27. July 2009
by Immanuel Ness - Solidarity Divided is the first major work to address seriously - without personal attacks and exaggeration - the 2005 crisis and split of organized labor.
Continue reading...RN to RN: A Conversation of Global Concern
17. April 2009
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"I’m struck by our similar concerns, even though we care for different kinds of patients in three different countries with different health-care systems."
Continue reading...WE are the Union
23. February 2009
by Eileen Prendiville -- The workers in UHW/NUHW remind us that the power of any union lies in the collective strength of its members. This message is sorely needed by a labor movement reeling from years of defeat.
Continue reading...Engels and the WHO Report
1. September 2008
On August 28, the World Health Organization announced that "INEQUALITIES ARE KILLING PEOPLE ON A GRAND SCALE." Has anything changed since the 19th Century? Find out in this fictional interview with Frederick Engels.
Continue reading...My Pain, Their Gain
29. August 2008
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by Jane Edgett -- Alberta used me to wipe out its deficit and justify privatizing its medical system.
Continue reading...War in the House of Labor
20. April 2008
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)
Continue reading...Machismo at Work
29. September 2007
Until they fight back as a class, workers will continue to construct more dehumanized conditions for themselves.
Continue reading...How Can We Organize Across National Borders?
8. September 2007
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Two principles are key to organizing across national borders: self-determination and solidarity.
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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?
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