Tag Archive | "health"
Hungry for Solutions
Gabor Maté’s books are commercially successful because they tap into popular awareness of social problems while avoiding the uncomfortable conclusion that social revolution is required to solve them.
Continue reading...Should Physicians be Activists?
Monday, September 20, 2010
Dr. Roland Wong is under threat of losing his license to practice medicine. He helped people on social assistance get extra money for food.
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...Health Care or Damage Control?
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
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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.
Continue reading...Solidarity is Better than Charity
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
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Charity should not be needed in a world of abundance.
Continue reading...Health and Social Policy
Tuesday, June 1, 1999
While the authors of this book shatter "common sense" myths about health, they promote another myth – that health policy is shaped by science, when it is actually shaped by the needs of the capitalist system.
Continue reading...The Myth of Scarcity
Friday, January 1, 1999
The myth of scarcity is used to limit majority access to medical and social services. In reality, society has more than enough resources to meet human needs.
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- Why California Health Workers are Voting for NUHW
- B.C. outlaws older workers' right to claim for workplace injuries
- Hyatt housekeepers file mass injury complaint
- $19 billion stolen annually from US workers' wages
- U.S. Nurses Rising!
- Kaiser Health Workers Take Back Their Union - Vote NUHW
- Workers Rights are HOT! Boycott "Bad Hotels"
- Kaiser Nurses Win Safer Staffing Levels
- Support NUHW!
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- How Capitalism Turns Intimate Relationships into a Battleground (11)
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- 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)
- The Shocking Disaster of Capitalism (5)
- Whose World? OUR World!
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- One Million Kids on Anti-Psychotics
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- America in Crisis: The Liberal Challenge and the Prospects for Socialism
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