More than a year after COVID-19 was first reported to the World Health Organization, the decade-defining pandemic has revealed deep structural flaws in the policy-making, scientific communication, and economic resilience of many nations...
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The role of race in public life has shifted with breakneck speed over the past decade, so it is hardly surprising that two recent books on race and science—Alondra Nelson’s The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation...
The global COVID-19 pandemic has put enormous strain on the US healthcare system. This strain has underscored racial inequity in the allocation of healthcare resources, including public health infrastructure vital to pandemic response, and...
Donna Haraway is Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. During her prolific career she has written dozens of books and articles bringing together intersecting...
I first heard Professor Sir Michael Marmot speak at a Students for Global Health event at the University of Cambridge. He described how life expectancy is no longer increasing in the UK and the US, and that it is in fact declining for...
At the Checkout By Isobel Duxfield (words) & Oliver Marr (artwork) SftP Online February 15, 2021 Today I’m working at the checkout While ‘rona keeps my life in doubt. This isn’t my usual Tuesday pew, But employed, I’m one of the lucky...
Many voices from the socialist, communist, and anarchist movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries challenged “social Darwinist” ideology by suggesting an alternative view of human nature. we must acknowledge that humans are not...
Muchas voces de los movimientos socialistas, comunistas y anarquistas de los siglos XIX y XX desafiaron la ideología «darwinista social» sugiriendo una visión alternativa de la naturaleza humana. Debemos reconocer que los humanos no...
Read how SftP organizers are protesting Moderna's vaccine profiteering, uncovering military funding in the academy, and digitizing the SftP Magazine archives
On May Day 2020, Socialists of Caltech wrote a response to Caltech administrators’ cutting of graduate student health benefits in the midst of a global pandemic. The following is an edited version of that response, tying the history of...