Tag Archive | "health care"
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...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...Solidarity Divided: A Return to Class Politics?
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
by Susan Rosenthal - "Solidarity Divided" calls for a return to the class-struggle politics that originally built the unions. However, these politics did not come from the unions, but from the socialists who were active inside of them.
Continue reading...RN to RN: A Conversation of Global Concern
Friday, April 17, 2009
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"I’m struck by our similar concerns, even though we care for different kinds of patients in three different countries with different health-care systems."
Continue reading...WE are the Union
Monday, February 23, 2009
by Eileen Prendiville -- The workers in UHW/NUHW remind us that the power of any union lies in the collective strength of its members. This message is sorely needed by a labor movement reeling from years of defeat.
Continue reading...The Fight to Save Ontario Hospitals
Monday, February 9, 2009
We need to build an active and militant campaign to save Ontario hospitals.
Continue reading...Blood Money
Sunday, November 23, 2008
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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...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)
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- Minnesota Nurses Authorize Strike for Patients' Rights
- 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!
- Mental Illness or Social Sickness? (21)
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- 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 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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