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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...Healthcare Not Warfare!
Sunday, January 25, 2009
The amount of global resources devoted to war indicates that our primary goal is to destroy ourselves.
Continue reading...Appeal from Gaza – Please Help Us!
Thursday, January 1, 2009
by Mahmoud -- At 3:30 am, I can still hear bombs exploding all over Gaza.
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...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...Where’s the Justice?
Saturday, September 1, 2007
Those who want to “crack down on crime” ignore the root cause of crime; the capitalist system of organized thievery.
Continue reading...Mothers Betrayed
Saturday, May 5, 2007
Capitalism celebrates mothers in theory and deprives them in practice.
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, Managed Care and Modern Malthusians
Friday, January 1, 1999
The myth of scarcity is used to limit access to medical care and other social services. In reality, society has more than enough resources to meet human needs.
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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
- 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
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- America in Crisis: The Liberal Challenge and the Prospects for Socialism
- Mental Illness or Social Sickness?
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Saturday, October 31, 2009
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