healthcare
Capitalism, Class, Climate, Crime, healthcare, Housing, News
Food for Thought From Canada
From the Monthly Report of the Socialist Party of Canada, January 2023 There is now a robot that can pick fruit. The camera tells the computer where ...
Book Review, healthcare, History, Sport, War
Football and War
In the United States the game called either football or soccer in the rest of the world is always called soccer. American football is very different. In ...
healthcare, Labor movement, Politics
Nursing Homes: Understaffing and Neglect
In both the United States and Canada, understaffing at nursing homes for the elderly leads to gross neglect of helpless patients. Why?
Book Review, Economics, healthcare
What Are Hospitals For?
Source: Timothy Snyder, Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary (New York: Crown, 2020) This is a hospital. What are hospitals for? Perhaps you think that they ...
Gambling Till You Drop
Natasha Dow Schull, Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas (Princeton University Press, 2012). This is a book about gambling machines. Gambling machines are everywhere. They occupy most ...
Capitalism, healthcare, Housing, Politics, War
News From Canada — July 2022
Our comrades in the Socialist Party of Canada discuss the cost of living, the shortage of family doctors, coyotes, election results, women's shelters, guns, abortion, and rents.
The Right to Life Ends at Birth
The Supreme Court has been throwing its weight around lately. Not content with sabotaging legislative attempts to restrict access to mass-murder weapons, it has now overturned Roe ...
healthcare, Housing, Imprisonment
Please Help Our Comrade Joe Hopkins
Our comrade Joe Hopkins, in prison in Florida and gravely sick with cirrhosis of the liver, is not getting the care he needs. Please help by signing an online petition.
Capitalism, Economics, healthcare, Technology
Captives of Coca-Cola
Why the people of San Cristobal in Mexico's Chiapas State drink so much Coca-Cola and what it does to them.
Environment, healthcare, Science, Technology
Beware — Cell Phones!
Cell phones are everywhere. Almost everyone has one. But there is mounting scientific evidence of the harm their radiation does to human health, especially to the health of children.