WORCESTER, MA, March 16— St Vincent's Hospital workers are on strike for safe patient staffing. The hospital is owned by Tenet Healthcare, which made $478 million in the last quarter alone. PLP is supporting this strike. The nurses won't give up!
Capitalism means understaffing, cutbacks and systemic, racist, sexist healthcare! Whenever there is a scarcity of a commodity under capitalism (e.g. healthcare, covid vaccines), racism, sexism, and poverty determines who gets left behind.
As long as we have this profit system, human life will be cheap and we will continue to be commodities, tossed aside and discarded when no longer useful to the bosses. Support the striking nurses as they fight for safe patient ratios and their livelihood!
Only a multiracial, antiracist workforce that fights racism and is grounded in the old communist adage: “an injury to one is an injury to all,” can lead and fight for real change. Politicians can’t do that. Union leaders can’t do that. Only the working class with communist leadership can achieve a need-based system because we are the cure. Full story next issue!