Progressive forces in southern Mexico need help from Spanish-speaking health workers. Since early this year, class struggle m the Mexican state of Oaxaca has been fierce. A transport workers' strike during the winter paralyzed the state. A worker-student alliance mobilized demonstrations in many towns. The army and...
Archive - December 2021
A nationwide boycott of the Nestle Corporation has been called, because of their aggressive and deceptive promotion and marketing of infant formula in the developing world. Third World mothers are being encouraged to abandon breast feeding in favor of buying such products as Nestle's Lactogen. Intensive advertising...
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Up until last summer, Flavio Martinez made his living in the cannery tomato fields of the Sacramento Valley. Though he found work thinning and weeding tomato plants, picking apricots, or gathering prunes and walnuts, he earned most of his annual income in the eight weeks of the tomato harvest.
Physicians play a crucial role in modern American society. No power of the physician has been more far-reaching than the power to determine which drugs can be "safely" given to the American public. A relatively small number of doctors have almost absolute control over the safety and effectiveness standards used in...
Listen! We just read an incredible book. It's called The Night Is Dark and I Am Far From Home, and it's by Jonathan Kozol. Kozol demands that we gaze unflinchingly at the source of our feelings of impotence about changing society- the public school system. As Paul Simon once observed, "As I look back on all the crap I...
It sounds like a 21st Century melodrama, but for Norma James, a 34-year-old divorced mother of four, it's all too real. James made history of sorts last year when she had herself sterilized so she could keep her job at a General Motors battery plant near Toronto.
Except perhaps for nuclear war, nothing in our times so threatens a majority of the world's people as do hunger and starvation. The prospects for a reasonably nutritional diet seem increasingly dim for hundreds of millions. Newspaper items predicting mass famine, accompanied by photographs of deformed, starving Asian...
Laboratory! was collectively written by several members of Boston SftP's political theater group, the Fuming Hoods. This play, while not the most detailed theoretical political argument, has proved to be an entertaining method of communicating basic ideas of "science for the people." Over the past several months, the...
The production of the N-bomb (neutron bomb) by the U.S. following the development of the cruise missile is an indication of the arms race waged by the two super-powers despite endless disarmament talks. It brings forward once again the need and responsibility of all progressive-minded people in the scientific...