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“Civil Wars” ignores the political lessons

Friday, September 23, 2011

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“Civil Wars” ignores the political lessons

"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.

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Support the Egyptian Revolution!

Monday, January 31, 2011

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Support the Egyptian Revolution!

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.

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Hungry for Solutions

Monday, January 10, 2011

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Hungry for Solutions

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.

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One Million Kids on Anti-Psychotics

Monday, September 20, 2010

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One Million Kids on Anti-Psychotics

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.

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Assembly-Line Medicine

Saturday, April 17, 2010

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Assembly-Line Medicine

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.

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What Happened in Chile: An Analysis of the Health Sector Before, During, and After Allende’s Administration

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

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What Happened in Chile: An Analysis of the Health Sector Before, During, and After Allende’s Administration

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.

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Solidarity Divided: A Return to Class Politics?

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

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Solidarity Divided: A Return to Class Politics?

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.

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Book Review: Solidarity Divided

Monday, July 27, 2009

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Book Review: Solidarity Divided

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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The ABCs of Socialism

Friday, March 20, 2009

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The ABCs of Socialism

That people react so negatively to the idea of socialism indicates how deeply capitalism has damaged our connections with one another.

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America in Crisis: The Liberal Challenge and the Prospects for Socialism

Sunday, October 5, 2008

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America in Crisis: The Liberal Challenge and the Prospects for Socialism

As America slips deeper into crisis, liberal efforts to preserve the capitalist system counter socialist efforts to replace it.

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