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...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...Monday, July 27, 2009
by Immanuel Ness - Solidarity Divided is the first major work to address seriously - without personal attacks and exaggeration - the 2005 crisis and split of organized labor.
Continue reading...Thursday, October 9, 2008
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Our hopes and dreams for a better life do not fit in their ballot boxes
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, May 18, 2008
A society based on exploitation and oppression must portray its victims and rebels 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...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...Saturday, April 28, 2007
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The Supreme Court has banned a form of late-term abortion on the basis that it wants to protect women from making harmful decisions. Where did it get the idea that abortion is harmful, or that women can't be trusted to make their own decisions?
Continue reading...Saturday, April 21, 2007
Why did one young man go berserk and kill 34 people?
Continue reading...Monday, April 2, 2007
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There is only one race, the human race, and we are all African.
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Saturday, October 31, 2009
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