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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.

Of Human Bondage: The Global Traffic in Disposable Labor

27. August 2012

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Of Human Bondage: The Global Traffic in Disposable Labor

The international traffic in temporary workers is Capital's latest move to accumulate more wealth by lowering the price of labor.

How Liberals Justify Torture

19. June 2011

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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.

Madness, Power and the Media

3. January 2011

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Author Stephen Harper explains how media images of madness and mental distress reflect and reinforce the unequal social relations of capitalism.

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.

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

Mental Illness or Social Sickness?

18. May 2008

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Human beings protest their oppression with open rebellion and through symptoms of sickness and distress. The prison system crushes the rebels, medicine treats the sick, and psychiatry subordinates the distressed. The effect of psychiatric “treatment” is to resign the discontented to their lot and drug the resisters into submission.