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What Would Quality Universal Health Care Look Like

While a single-payer would be a dramatic improvement over the current market-based system, it is not a complete solution to the health care … See more

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Temple University Hospital Nurses and Professional Staff Prepare …

WebBy Marty Harrison, Vice President of Temple University Hospital Nurses Association (personal capacity) Healthcare workers bore the brunt of their employers’ …

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Isolation, Stress, and Poverty: Capitalism and Our Declining Mental

WebWhile genetic and biological factors are at play, exposure to the exploitation, alienation, inequality, stress, violence, and trauma of capitalism is the root cause of the …

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Socialist Alternative in Action: Healthcare Workers on the Picket …

WebChicagoland Nursing Home Strike On November 23, 700 Certified Nursing Assistants and other healthcare workers went on strike at 11 Chicagoland area nursing …

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Unionizing Workers

WebIn the best of times, where right wing leaders like Texas governor Greg Abbott are not directly attacking access to gender affirming health care, it remains financially …

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Healthcare In Freefall: Biden & Trump Can’t Heal Us

WebWhile we should oppose Trump’s attempts to take away access to insurance from millions of working people, Biden’s effort to continue to apply the same band-aid …

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LGBTQ Healthcare Workers in Chicago Strike Over Illegal Layoffs

WebJanuary 25, 2023. On Tuesday, January 2, workers at eleven Howard Brown Health Clinics and affiliated organizations across the Chicago area walked off the job in a three-day …

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Deadly Lack of PPE in U.S. Hospitals Socialist Alternative

WebUnsurprisingly, the lack of PPE and hospitals being stretched way past their capacities means that workers are contracting COVID-19. The New York Times is …

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Women Dying for Healthcare — The Failure of For-Profit Healthcare

WebUnder the current healthcare system, 42 million people have no healthcare coverage. The US spends more money on healthcare than any other country, yet tens of …

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Coronavirus Hits Washington State – Kshama Sawant Calls for Free …

WebThe Seattle area is on the front line of the spread of coronavirus in the U.S. To contain this epidemic, a massive mobilization of resources is needed, and it is possible. …

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40 Years Since King’s Assassination — Racism in America

WebOn the 40th anniversary of Dr. King s assassination, African Americans still face systemic racism and inequality. One in three black men will be imprisoned in their …

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Health Care: Neoliberalism Causes “Social Murder” on a Global Scale

WebAlready in the 1970s, neoliberal politicians started questioning its existence. Chile, under the dictatorship of Pinochet, was among the first to open its health care …

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Workers Speak Out – Detroit Area ICU Nurse Socialist Alternative

WebI work in a surgical trauma ICU. Our unit typically takes patients who have been in car accidents, gunshot victims, post-suicide attempts, etc.

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Socialists and the Covid-19 Pandemic Socialist Alternative

WebThe first infections happened at the beginning of December last year and the novel Covid-19 strain of Coronavirus was identified on January 7 this year. Genetic …

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Over 10,000 protest in New York Against Bloomberg’s Plan for …

WebOn Thursday, May 12, a demonstration of over 10,000 workers and young people wound its way across lower Manhattan. A number of unions mobilized for the …

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Minnesota Nurses Strike Settled After 38 Days Socialist Alternative

WebOctober 31, 2016. By Katie Quarles. After thirty-eight days on strike, the 4,800 members of the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) in Minneapolis-Saint Paul voted on October 13 …

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Mark Rafferty, Graduate Student at the New School, NYC

WebMark Rafferty, Graduate Student at the New School, NYC

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Women: Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Socialist Alternative

WebIn October 2007, Anucha Browne Sanders won her sexual harassment case against Madison Square Gardens and was awarded $11.6 million. The verdict was the …

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Front Line Nurse Speaks Out Socialist Alternative

WebThe following comments were made by Marty Harrison, a nurse in Philadelphia and member of PASNAP, at Socialist Alternative’s national virtual town hall …

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New York: Teachers, Parents and Students Organize Against …

WebFor the U.S. corporate elite, education reform which means privatizing as much as possible of the school system and attacking the collective power of teachers is …

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Eyewitness Report: Over 700 Arrested on Occupy Wall Street …

WebOn Saturday, October 1 the NYPD arrested over 700 protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge, as Occupy Wall Street started its third week of action. This anti …

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Successful Rally in Solidarity with European Strike in NYC

WebOver a hundred demonstrators showed their solidarity with the historic general strike across Southern Europe on Wednesday, November 14 in Manhattan near …

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