"I've worked at Fletcher Allen about 22 years.... Once the hospital found out I was trying
to organize our union, I was called into my manager's office. They told me that if I
continued to engage in union activities, I would be written up on my job performance and
possibly lose my job. As it is now, the hospital has all the power and the workers have
none....

Social systems don't live forever. They have their own internal contradictions, which
produce systemic crises. Capitalism is no different; someday it will end. The question we
are addressing is whether it will be followed by barbarism, mass death, and barrenness, or
by a better world.

Women activists rally in Ottawa in support of a sit-in against cuts to aboriginal healing programs, March 29. PHOTO: Greg Macdougall

by Greg Macdougall

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by Kim Ives (Haiti Liberte)
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Perhaps this is the way it is now in the age of Obama, where the words sound
terrific, but reality is something else entirely. Talk of peace means more
war. Talk of reigning in medical insurance companies means making mandatory
payments to them.

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