Health Care

Struggle for reproductive justice advances in Ohio

Cleveland Ohio is one of many states whose legislatures rammed through harsh legislation denying abortion access after the Supreme Court…

July 20, 2023

Philadelphia: Drug crisis in Kensington calls for reparations

Philadelphia From around the East Coast, a flock of drug users gather in the Kensington section of Philadelphia. From as…

July 10, 2023

For-profit health care and the mental health crisis

As current living conditions get tougher for people, driving them into depression and despair, health-care CEOs are licking their chops…

July 7, 2023

Activists defend clinic from anti-abortion fascists

On the one-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision, which led to the imposition of anti-abortion laws and emboldened the right…

July 7, 2023

Profiteering from drug addiction: a crime

In the United States, almost every aspect of the medical field is controlled by capitalist interests. This is true for…

July 4, 2023

PDX maintenance workers “Sit Down! Fight Back!”

Portland, Oregon  “We won’t stand for it!”  Portland Airport (PDX) wheelchair attendants, baggage and service workers, cabin cleaners and janitors…

July 1, 2023

Microaggressions in the prisons

By Cindy Lou By this time we are all too familiar with the horrific violence and racist oppression that takes…

June 30, 2023

ON STRIKE: 1,800 Portland Prudential nurses

Portland, Oregon Nurses and clinicians marched off the job June 19 for a weeklong strike after an overwhelming 97% strike…

June 30, 2023

‘Enough is Enough’ – National Day of Action Organized by Nurses’ Union

Thousands of nurses in hospitals across the U.S., represented by National Nurses United, participated in the union’s National Day of…

June 19, 2023

Confront the class behind climate change!

Buffalo, New York I returned on June 1 from a delegation to the People’s Republic of China, landing in JFK…

June 12, 2023