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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...Wednesday, April 30, 2008
This pamphlet explores how healthy profits create sick people, how class determines health more than any other factor, how Canada and the U.S. both ration medical care (in different ways), how all existing medical systems are disease-care systems, and what a genuine health-care system might look like.
Continue reading...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)
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Saturday, October 31, 2009
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