health

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Social murder: Pandemic profits and vaccine apartheid

Life-saving drugs are produced only if they can generate profits that capitalists consider acceptable. The result, argues Ian Angus, is social murder.
Cuban doctor in Haiti

Why the US hates Cuba

The rich and powerful hate Cuba because it does so much better than the US in caring for its own people, explains Don Fitz.
molotov cocktail

The UnitedHealth Insurance CEO killing and contested violence in a capitalist society

Vince Montes asks: Why are many people looking past the homicide of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and focusing more on Luigi Mangione as a kind of hero?
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Capitalism, climate change and workers’ health: Notes on a research agenda

Raju J Das — Building on Friedrich Engels, this article introduces the concept of “eco-social murder” to explore the ways in which the ecological character of capitalism is killing and harming workers.

The birth of the Cuban polyclinic

By Don Fitz June 29, 201