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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...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...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...A Social Definition of Class
Sunday, June 1, 2008
A social definition of class explains why the capitalist class will never put people first, why the middle class will always try to contain the forces of rebellion, and why only the working class has the numbers, the power and the motivation to replace capitalism with an egalitarian socialist society
Continue reading...Class, Health and Health Care
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
This pamphlet explores how healthy profits create sick people, how class determines health more than any other factor, how Canada and the U.S. both ration medical care (in different ways), how all existing medical systems are disease-care systems, and what a genuine health-care system might look like.
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...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...Machismo at Work
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Until they fight back as a class, workers will continue to construct more dehumanized conditions for themselves.
Continue reading...How Can We Organize Across National Borders?
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Two principles are key to organizing across national borders: self-determination and solidarity.
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- Support NUHW!
- WE are the union - UHW fights SEIU takeover
- Israeli Soldiers Refuse to Serve in Gaza
- RNs Rally to Demand Nurse-to-Patient Ratios
- Norwegian Doctor Condemns Israel's War on Gaza
- Mental Illness or Social Sickness?
- SEIU Health Workers Fight for Union Democracy
- New York City protest against Israeli War - December 28, 2008
- B.C. outlaws older workers' right to claim for workplace injuries
- California Nurses March for Universal Health Care
- 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 (10)
- 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)
- The Shocking Disaster of Capitalism (5)
- War in the House of Labor (5)
- Medical Rationing in the US and Canada
- What Happened in Chile: An Analysis of the Health Sector Before, During, and After Allende’s Administration
- 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?
- Animal Rights or Human Responsibilities?
- Striking Flint: Genora (Johnson) Dollinger Remembers the 1936-37 General Motors Sit-Down Strike
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- Kaiser Health Workers Take Back Their Union – Vote NUHW
- The National Equality March on Washington – October 11, 2009
- B.C. outlaws older workers’ right to claim for workplace injuries
- RNs Rally to Demand Nurse-to-Patient Ratios
- Support NUHW!
- WE are the union – UHW fights SEIU takeover
- 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
- Workers occupy Chicago factory and win
- SEIU Health Workers Fight for Union Democracy
- California Nurses March for Universal Health Care
Saturday, October 31, 2009
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