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Medical Rationing in the US and Canada
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...Solidarity Divided: A Welcome Return to Class Politics
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
By refusing to fight the political class war, unions are losing the economic battle. Solidarity Divided raises the call for a new labor movement that will fight for the entire working class: union and non-union, employed and unemployed, all races, genders, sexual orientations, native-born and immigrant.
Continue reading...Book Review: Solidarity Divided
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...RN to RN: A Conversation of Global Concern
Friday, April 17, 2009
"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...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...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...Wanted: Health Care not Disease Care
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
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...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...The Infinite Potential of the Human Mind
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Imagine what we could do if we used our minds to solve social problems, instead of restricting ourselves to choosing which section of the elite will dominate us.
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
- The National Equality March on Washington - October 11, 2009
- Norwegian Doctor Condemns Israel's War on Gaza
- New York City protest against Israeli War - December 28, 2008
- 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?
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
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