health and medicine

France: Following the SNCF Mechanics' Struggle, The Fight in the Hospitals Shows the Way

Submitted by Internationalis... on Nov 27 2019 19:19

In spring 2019, a crisis on an unprecedented scale was sparked in French hospitals. The emergency services went on strike in massive numbers. Barely three months from its beginnings on 18 March, in the Saint-Antoine Hospital in Paris, it had spread to around a hundred establishments all across France by July. The movement will not stop spreading as long as the situation remains untenable. In September, the number of emergency services on strike was 239, or more than half of all services. This mobilisation has not died down and even rose to 267 services on strike in mid-October.

Something should be done (or How to revolt) [book review]

Something should be done: an anarchist’s adventures in trade unionism by Peter Good tells how he and his workmates tried to improve things (for the workers and patients) at a large mental hospital back in the 1970s.

1997-1998: AIDS activists (ACT UP) demand federal funding for needle exchange programs

Submitted by Reddebrek on Jul 5 2019 19:16

During the takeover, activists chained and barricaded themselves inside Thurman'

Account of the 18 month long protests to overturn government bans on clean needle exchanges which contributed to the spread of diseases and thousands of deaths per year.

Citizens for better science

The left should advocate for free access to not only scientific literature and data but also the means of production of science.

Cleaners organised in UVW launch three simultaneous migrant workers strikes across London

Submitted by R Totale on Jul 17 2018 20:43

Cleaners organised in the United Voices of the World (UVW) trade union are walking out over pay and unfair working conditions at three of the wealthiest employers in the UK. This story was previously published by Freedom News and the UVW.

Now It's Aotearoa's Turn For Abortion Referendum

Submitted by LAMA on May 30 2018 02:07

Ireland has had its abortion referendum, now it's about time New Zealand/Aotearoa did the same.

NHS pay deal: too low, too slow, vote no!

Bristol Care Workers Network break down what the proposed NHS pay deal, being pushed by government and unions alike, really means for NHS staff and why they should vote no.

Iron Bars on the House of Labour

Submitted by O Berkman on Mar 2 2018 23:26

An overlay of two images. The CUPE Ontario Flag with a grouping of cops marching

How accepting surveillance officers and other parts of the repressive state into trade unions is a threat to organizers across so-called Canada...

Interview: 100 days of the Kenya nurses strike

Submitted by Mike Harman on Sep 21 2017 12:45

Nurses in Kenya have been on strike for more than 100 days. The government has declared the strike illegal and started sacking nurses. Nurses have continued their action despite this, with an almost total shutdown of public hospitals across Kenya and demonstrations weekly. Mike Harman interviewed Nahashon, one of the nurses on strike, for libcom.org.