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Are striking doctors really ‘greedy’ and ‘uncaring’?

22Sep

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Health, United Kingdom

Are striking doctors really ‘greedy’ and ‘uncaring’?

An answer to ‘The Times view on health sector strikes: Uncaring profession’ Proletarian writers As when train and tube drivers strike to defend pay, working conditions, pensions, decent rail provision and passenger safety, so with the doctors – the media hirelings of the bourgeoisie are up in arms at the ‘selfishness’ of skilled workers demanding pay restoration that is needed not only for themselves but for the continued existence of a public health service. On Monday 18 September (at 12.01am), the Times dropped its leading editorial opinion piece on the ongoing industrial action of the British Medical Association (BMA), “scheduled to roll out this week on a far more coordinated and systematic basis than previously”. (The Times view on health sector strikes: Uncaring p...

What Happened to the Left in the U.S. Labor Movement?

22Sep

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USA

What Happened to the Left in the U.S. Labor Movement?

BY JOE ALLEN Image by Manny Becerra. Many people in the U.S. Left feel disoriented following the end of the UPS contract campaign. For the several hundred members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), other socialist organizations, and independent radicals in the Teamsters, the sudden announcement of a Tentative Agreement (TA) between the Teamsters and UPS on July 25 caught many off guard. They expected to be part of the biggest strike in modern U.S. history. The foregoing two weeks of “practice picketing” across the country had generated the strong impression that a strike was imminent. Instead, it all ended with a whimper, not a bang. The TA was hailed as a historic victory and a game-changer by the Teamsters. The Teamsters a...

22Sep

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Environment

A Global Maui Moment

BY TOM ENGELHAR A long-exposure photograph of Lahaina on the night of August 8 to 9 from South Maui. Photograph Source: Wtp22 – CC BY-SA 3.0 From the earliest kingdoms to late last night, history has been the story not just of the rise of great powers but of their decline and fall. So, normally, there would be nothing particularly out of the ordinary about the aging America of Joe Biden and Donald Trump, a classic imperial power distinctly in decline and threatening to split into pieces. As it happens, though, there’s something all too new about the twenty-first-century decline and fall of that other great power of the Cold War era — you know, not the Soviet Union. After all, the present downhill slide of this country is happening on a planet that itself is distinctly in...

22Sep

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France

A French Nuclear Fairy Tale

BY AXEL MAYER Flamanville 3 has been under construction on the Normandy coast since 2007 and still isn’t operational. (Photo: Morpheus2309 at de.wikipedia) In France, the nuclear industry is in decline and the nuclear company EDF is heavily in debt. At the same time, President Macron is once again promising cheap nuclear power and wants to have new small nuclear power plants built. A small part of the French nuclear industry’s financial problems is to be solved with EU money. In this context, the fairy tale of cheap French nuclear power is happily spread in France and also in Germany and the use of nuclear energy is praised as the miracle weapon in the losing war against nature and the environment. However, the price of electricity in France is only apparently cheap...

22Sep

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Ukraine

Ukraine’s Bandera Itch

BY BINOY KAMPMARK Photograph Source: Cogitato – CC BY-SA 4.0 The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 has been justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “special military operation” with a few barbed purposes, among them cleaning the country’s stables of Nazis. As with so many instances of history, it was not entirely untrue, though particularly convenient for Moscow. At the core of many a nationalist movement beats a reactionary heart, and the trauma-strewn stretch that is Ukrainian history is no exception. A central figure in this drama remains Stepan Bandera, whose influence during the Second World War have etched him into the annals of Ukrainian history. His appearance in the Russian rationale for invading Ukraine has given his spirit a historica...

Depleted Uranium Won’t Bring Peace to Ukraine

22Sep

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Ukraine

Depleted Uranium Won’t Bring Peace to Ukraine

BY ROBERT KOEHLER DU penetrator from the A-10 30mm round. Image courtesy Wikicommons. Freedom’s just another word for . . . blowing up your children? Giving them cancer? Militarism is obsolete, for God’s sake. Its technology is out of control. The latest shred of news that has left me stunned and terror-stricken is this, as reported by Reuters: “The Biden administration will for the first time send controversial armor-piercing munitions containing depleted uranium to Ukraine. . . . It follows an earlier decision by the Biden administration to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine, despite concerns over the dangers such weapons pose to civilians.” Russia’s war on Ukraine is a disaster at every level. Some 70,000 Ukrainians have died, according to the New York Times...

Big Privatized Healthcare Fraud in Maine

22Sep

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Health

Big Privatized Healthcare Fraud in Maine

BY W. T. WHITNEY Photo by Jon Tyson The U.S. Justice Department accused Martin’s Point Health Center in Portland, Maine, of Medicare fraud. According to a settlement announced on July 31, the Center will return $22.5 million to federal authorities while not admitting to wrong-doing. Revelations from whistle-blower Alicia Wilbur, once a Martin’s Point manager, prompted an investigation. She will receive $3.8 million for her pains, as per the False Claims Act Martin’s Point received extra Medicare funding by means of exaggerating the seriousness of illnesses of older patients in its care. Other health centers and big insurance companies across the nation have done likewise. Many have been investigated and punished. The Medicare Moderniza...

Letter from London: More Efficient Means for Going Backward

21Sep

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United Kingdom

Letter from London: More Efficient Means for Going Backward

BY PETER BACH Photograph Source: PoorTom at English Wikipedia – Public Domain It must have been hot in the prison kitchen at HMP Wandsworth in south London last week. Temperatures outside were stratospheric. Just how hot it was at 7am on Wednesday, 21-year-old category B prisoner Daniel Khalife was about to find out. Soon he was in the sun-slapped yard unpacking groceries from the regular food truck. Was he already wearing the makeshift belt purported to have come from material found inside the prison? Did he have help? Regardless, still wearing his cook’s uniform, with its neatly checked red trousers, as quick as a flash he had strapped himself to the underside of the food vehicle before exiting the prison grounds unseen at 7.30am. Daniel Khalife was an unusual prisoner. He nee...

The Slanted Media Coverage of the Pending UAW Strike

21Sep

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Media, USA

The Slanted Media Coverage of the Pending UAW Strike

BY BERNIE SANDERS One of the major crises facing our country is that eight large media conglomerates control 90 percent of what the American people see, hear, and read. And that kind of corporate ownership is now being seen clearly in the coverage of the labor conflict between the United Auto Workers and the Big 3 automakers. I find it interesting that the major reasons as to why autoworkers might go out on strike have been rarely, if ever, the focus of the corporate media’s coverage of the conflict, so let me list some of them. In the first half of 2023, the Big 3 automakers made a combined $23 billion in profits – up 80 percent from the same time period last year. But if you’ve watched any corporate news coverage of the pending strike by 150,000 autoworkers, you’ve heard mo...

Indigenous Voices Bring a Reality Check at the Assembly of the Peoples of the Earth for the Amazon

21Sep

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Brazil, Environment

Indigenous Voices Bring a Reality Check at the Assembly of the Peoples of the Earth for the Amazon

BY GABRIEL LEÃO Telma Taurepang. Photo: Isaka Hunikui. Peoples’ movements from the pan-Amazon countries published a collective letter with a series of demands in defense of the biome and delivered it to the heads of state meeting at the Amazon Summit on August 8. The movements met in a parallel summit in Belém that emphasized indigenous unity and leadership in the face of the crisis facing the region. The ‘Assembly of the Peoples of The Earth for the Amazon’ held August 4-9 in Belém in the state of Pará, northern Brazil, sent a powerful message to the heads of state who were meeting in the Amazon Summit: Indigenous peoples are the key to avoiding a point of no return for the life-giving Amazon rainforest and their voices should be heard. The peoples’ assembly gathere...