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The Lessons of Chile
In the early 1970s, Chileans fought for a democratized and inclusive National Health Service. Their experience can teach us much about the fight for health care as a human right.
Continue reading...Hope for Life Beyond Capitalism
Monday, February 20, 2012
According to Michael Albert, past attempts to build socialism have failed, not because the capitalist class has been utterly ruthless in holding onto power, but because socialists have the wrong methods and goals.
Continue reading...“Civil Wars” ignores the political lessons
Friday, September 23, 2011
"The Civil Wars in US Labor" does not explain why a generation of activists failed to democratize the unions and what the next generation of activists must do differently to avoid repeating that failure.
Continue reading...Support the Egyptian Revolution!
Monday, January 31, 2011
Revolutions that topple tyrants can transform themselves into revolutionary movements that challenge all tyranny. This is what the ruling class most fears, not only in Egypt, but also in the US and around the world.
Continue reading...Hungry for Solutions
Monday, January 10, 2011
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Gabor Maté’s books are commercially successful because they tap into popular awareness of social problems while avoiding the uncomfortable conclusion that social revolution is required to solve them.
Continue reading...One Million Kids on Anti-Psychotics
Monday, September 20, 2010
Corporate America is awash in cash it stole from working-class families, whose distressed children are being labeled with mental disorders and drugged into submission.
Continue reading...Assembly-Line Medicine
Saturday, April 17, 2010
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By expanding Taylorism to the service sector, capitalism has expanded the class struggle to every school and hospital. Opportunities have never been better to build a unified movement of the working-class.
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...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.
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- Hyatt housekeepers file mass injury complaint
- $19 billion stolen annually from US workers' wages
- Minnesota Nurses Authorize Strike for Patients' Rights
- Millions rally to oust Mubarak
- Wisconsin workers' rebellion
- B.C. outlaws older workers' right to claim for workplace injuries
- U.S. Nurses Rising!
- Kaiser Health Workers Take Back Their Union - Vote NUHW
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- Mental Illness or Social Sickness? (21)
- 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 Return to Class Politics? (7)
- War in the House of Labor (6)
- The Shocking Disaster of Capitalism (5)
- The Lessons of Chile
- Whose World? OUR World!
- “Civil Wars” ignores the political lessons
- One Million Kids on Anti-Psychotics
- Solidarity Divided: A Return to Class Politics?
- Professional Poison: How Professionals Sabotage Social Movements, and Why Workers Should Lead Our Fight
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