Dennis Raphael

30 years ago.

We can also acknowledge feelings of hopelessness, and try to fight against them, like she did. It doesn’t hurt to take time to feed birds and collect plants every once in a while too, like Luxemburg did between her political commitments.

Sometimes Rosa Luxemburg Was Depressed Too - Left Voice Rosa Luxemburg was known as a ball of energy — "like a candle burning at both ends." But like every person, she also suffered moments of despair.

That is a person I can identify with! So, if we aspire to be like Luxemburg, we don’t need to always feel “unparalleled energy.” We don’t always have to enjoy our political work.
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Sometimes Rosa Luxemburg Was Depressed Too
Rosa Luxemburg was known as a ball of energy — “like a candle burning at both ends.” But like every person, she also suffered moments of despair.
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3. the skill to manipulate it as a weapon;
4. the judgment to select those in whose hands it will be effective; and
5. the cunning to spread the truth among such persons.

NOWADAYS, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
He must have
1. the courage to write the truth when truth is everywhere opposed;
2. the keenness to recognize it, although it is everywhere concealed;

Five difficulties in writing the truth. Particularly timely nowadays.
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A lesson for today from World War II. Ballad of the soldier’s wife by Bertold Brecht.
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However much you twist, whatever lies you tell
Food is the first thing, morals follow on
So first make sure that those who now are starving
Get proper helpings when we all start carving

-- Bertolt Brecht, “Second Threepenny Finale” (1928/2013)

Late-Stage Capitalism and the Canadian Polycrisis in Living and Working Conditions: Implications for Health and Means of Responding - Rozhin Amin, Dennis Raphael, 2026 There is growing concern about the health and overall well-being of societies stemming from neoliberal-oriented governments reducing their management of the eco...

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Opinion: Is a nation falling from 5th to 22nd in life expectancy rankings a sign of something wrong? Growing income and wealth inequality, housing and food insecurity, lack of unionized jobs, and a health-care system in crisis contribute.

seems to work, try again... :-)
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1 Basics 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Criticism and knowledge 1.3 Empirical study 1.4 Critical and conventional ethnogaphy 1.5 The critical tradition 1.6 Elements of critical social research

This remarkable book is available on line and should form the basis of ALL health research.

Harvey, L. (1990).
Critical social research. Unwin Hyman.
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Social Determinants of Health: The Canadian Facts
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Oh and housing and food affordability as well. By the way these are called social determinants of health (google it) because they have the strongest effects upon health.
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Rather than see this as a medical problem perhaps we should focus on the deteriorating living and working conditions many Canadian are experiencing as a result of business-friendly public policy that reduces social programs, wages, and employment security.

These chronic conditions are the fastest growing in Toronto. ‘We need to start preparing’
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Gee, I wonder why.
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"This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet?"

Healthy Life Expectancy at Birth Plummeting. 📉

It is a hideous scandal that they can publish a chart as obvious as this and not even mention the words 'covid infections'.

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YouTube video by Max Gowland Robyn Archer performs "Supply And Demand" by Bertolt Brecht & Hans Eisler

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Opinion: Is a nation falling from 5th to 22nd in life expectancy rankings a sign of something wrong? Growing income and wealth inequality, housing and food insecurity, lack of unionized jobs, and a health-care system in crisis contribute.

Opinion: Is a nation (Canada) falling from 5th to 22nd in life expectancy rankings a sign of something wrong?
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Tell Carney: Oppose Illegal Attacks on Iran

As Trump and Netanyahu drag the region into war, Canada is shamefully cheering them on. Join us in emailing Prime Minister Carney and Foreign Minister Anand to demand that they retract their support for illegal US-Israeli attacks on Iran and impose sanctions on Israel. share.nwmd.social/s/dur3grJt

Sleepy cat.

General, your Tank General, Your Tank By Bertolt Brecht The poem General,your tank is a powerful vehicle. It smashes down forests and crushes a hundre...

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The Politics of Food Insecurity in Canada and the United Kingdom The Politics of Food Insecurity in Canada and the United Kingdom; This book takes a critical political economy approach to understanding food insecurity in Canada and the UK. It provides a vision of a...

The Politics of Food Insecurity in Canada and the United Kingdom
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10: Exploring the Growth of ‘Emergency’ Charitable Food Aid in the UK
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