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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...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...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...Mental Illness or Social Sickness?
18. May 2008
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.
Continue reading...The Past Does Not Predict the Future
25. December 2007
Pessimism is self-fulfilling. When we expect nothing to change, then we do nothing to create change.
Continue reading...Pain is the Price of Remaining Human
6. December 2007
Human suffering should not be treated as individual and medical, but as social and political.
Continue reading...The Infinite Potential of the Human Mind
4. November 2007
Imagine what we could do if we used our minds to solve social problems, instead of restricting ourselves to choosing which section of the elite will dominate us.
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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 Capitalism Turns Intimate Relationships into a Battleground
25. August 2007
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.
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- Mental Illness or Social Sickness? (21)
- Mothers Betrayed (16)
- The Virginia Tech Massacre: Cho Seung-Hui Delivers his Message (12)
- How Capitalism Turns Intimate Relationships into a Battleground (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)
- POWER and Powerlessness (5)
- Smokescreens: How Working Kills Smokers
- Of Human Bondage: The Global Traffic in Disposable Labor
- Fighting to Win
- Read it and Revolt
- The Lessons of Chile: 1970-1973
- Solidarity Divided: A Return to Class Politics?
- The ABCs of Socialism
- Mental Illness or Social Sickness?
- Animal Rights or Human Responsibilities?
- Striking Flint: Genora (Johnson) Dollinger Remembers the 1936-37 General Motors Sit-Down Strike
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