Tag Archive | "class"
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...What Happened in Chile: An Analysis of the Health Sector Before, During, and After Allende’s Administration
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
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...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...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...The Past Does Not Predict the Future
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Pessimism is self-fulfilling. When we expect nothing to change, then we do nothing to create change.
Continue reading...Animal Rights or Human Responsibilities?
Friday, December 7, 2007
In their efforts to protect animals from unnecessary suffering, some people want to extend the fight for human rights and liberation to animals. While this sounds appealing, it confuses the meaning of rights and liberation
Continue reading...Machismo at Work
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Until they fight back as a class, workers will continue to construct more dehumanized conditions for themselves.
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- Support NUHW!
- 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
- Norwegian Doctor Condemns Israel's War on Gaza
- New York City protest against Israeli War - December 28, 2008
- The National Equality March on Washington - October 11, 2009
- 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?
- Animal Rights or Human Responsibilities?
- Striking Flint: Genora (Johnson) Dollinger Remembers the 1936-37 General Motors Sit-Down Strike
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- The National Equality March on Washington – October 11, 2009
- B.C. outlaws older workers’ right to claim for workplace injuries
- RNs Rally to Demand Nurse-to-Patient Ratios
- Support NUHW!
- WE are the union – UHW fights SEIU takeover
Saturday, October 31, 2009
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