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African lives -- silent casualty of the global economic crisis
By the Treatment Action Campaign (South Africa), AIDS and Rights Alliance for S
Mexico's Revolutionary Workers Party (PRT) statement on swine flu epidemic
Statement by the Revolutionary Workers Party (PRT)
April 30, 2009 -- The health emergency brought about by the swine flu epidemic has important political and social repercussions, in addition to consequences for public health, that need to be explained in the midst of the confusion and distrust that contradictory governmental versions generate. It is also necessary to open the way to scientific information, truth and political criticism.
Swine flu and a sick social system: Why the poor die and the rich sniffle
Mike Davis: Capitalism and the flu
Agri-biz at root of swine flu? Real News Network report, April 30, 2009.
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April 27, 2009 -- Socialist Worker (USA) -- Mike Davis, whose 2006 book The Monster at Our Door warned of the threat of a global bird flu pandemic, explains how globalised agribusiness set the stage for a frightening outbreak of the swine flu in Mexico.