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Inequality: The Root Source of Sickness
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.
Continue reading...Medical Rationing in the US and Canada
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Both the U.S. and Canada ration medical services. In the US, rationing is based on ability to pay. Canada rations by under-funding the medical system, bringing inequality through the back door.
Continue reading...The ABCs of Socialism
Friday, March 20, 2009
That people react so negatively to the idea of socialism indicates how deeply capitalism has damaged our connections with one another.
Continue reading...Blood Money
Sunday, November 23, 2008
The billions of dollars being lavished on banks and other corporations is blood money. It's available only because people like Heather are being robbed of their kidneys, their health and their lives.
Continue reading...America in Crisis: The Liberal Challenge and the Prospects for Socialism
Sunday, October 5, 2008
As America slips deeper into crisis, liberal efforts to preserve the capitalist system counter socialist efforts to replace it.
Continue reading...Engels and the WHO Report
Monday, September 1, 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...A Social Definition of Class
Sunday, June 1, 2008
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
Continue reading...Mental Illness or Social Sickness?
Sunday, May 18, 2008
A society based on exploitation and oppression must portray those who protest as sick or deviant. Instead of correcting the social sources of sickness, psychiatry extracts the individual from society, splits the brain from the body, severs the mind from the brain and drugs the brain.
Continue reading...War in the House of Labor
Sunday, April 20, 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...Wanted: Health Care not Disease Care
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Capitalism cannot deliver genuine health care. A real health-care system would oppose profitable practices like hazardous work, adulterated food, industrial pollution and wars of acquisition. Putting health first requires a fundamentally different social system.
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- WE are the union - UHW fights SEIU takeover
- RNs Rally to Demand Nurse-to-Patient Ratios
- B.C. outlaws older workers' right to claim for workplace injuries
- Israeli Soldiers Refuse to Serve in Gaza
- The National Equality March on Washington - October 11, 2009
- Norwegian Doctor Condemns Israel's War on Gaza
- New York City protest against Israeli War - December 28, 2008
- Workers occupy Chicago factory and win
- SEIU Health Workers Fight for Union Democracy
- Mental Illness or Social Sickness? (20)
- 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 Welcome Return to Class Politics (7)
- War in the House of Labor (6)
- The Shocking Disaster of Capitalism (5)
- Support Detroit’s Emergency Medics!
- Union Democracy On Trial
- Solidarity Divided: A Welcome Return to Class Politics
- Professional Poison: How Professionals Sabotage Social Movements, and Why Workers Should Lead Our Fight
- The ABCs of Socialism
- Blood Money
- America in Crisis: The Liberal Challenge and the Prospects for Socialism
- Mental Illness or Social Sickness?
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- Striking Flint: Genora (Johnson) Dollinger Remembers the 1936-37 General Motors Sit-Down Strike
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