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 ...

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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 ...

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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?

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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 ...

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Book Review, healthcare

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 ...

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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.

4 min read

healthcare, News, Science

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 ...

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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.

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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.

4 min read

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.

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