www.thelancet.com Vol 372 October 25, 2008 1457 Public-health posters are a window into the history of medicine and the politics of public health. Developed out of mid-19th-century mass media campaigns to sell products, announce performances, and propagandise in western and central Europe, they were intended to promote healthy behaviours among individuals and so strengthen the body politic. By ...

The Labor-Progressive Party in Crisis, 1956–1957 Karen Levine (bio) Keywords Party, Canadian Communism, 1956, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, 20th Congress of the Communist Soviet Union, Tim Buck, J.B. Salsberg, Norman Penner, Gui Caron, Anti-Semitism, Stanley B. Ryerson Mots-clés Parti ouvrier-progressiste, communisme canadien, Staline, Khrouchtchev. 20e congrès du communiste de l'Union sovi...

Since colonial times, Brazilian society has been characterized by a perverse concentration of wealth in the hands of a small elite. Ethnic group inequities were superimposed upon the concentration of wealth, with the near extermination of the native population and the massive slave trade. On top of socioeconomic and ethnic disparities, gender inequities also play an important role in Brazilian ...

noted the shift by left-wing and union-linked intellectuals from socialism to social democracy, and the claim by these theorists that 'Marxism is not voluntarily accepted by the working class'. Their experience (the abstract told us) was very different On the basis of correspondence to Learning Nation and of fieldwork, they argued that 'the working class wants socialism and recognises the need ...

356 ADICCIONES, 2013 · VOL. 25 NÚM. 4 · PÁGS. 356-357 Enviar correspondencia a: Sergei V. Jargin, Clementovski per 6-82, Moscow 115184, Russia. E-mail: [email protected]. Telephone and fax: +7 495 9516788 Discussion of a changing pattern of alcohol consumption in the former Soviet Union (SU) would not provide much insight without an overview of its social transformations since the 1990s; that is,...

Xin Liu Submitted for the degree of Dphil International Relations Origins of Peasant Socialism in China The International Relations of China’s Modern Revolution More than six decades after its occurrence, China’s ‘peasant revolution’ of 1949 remains an enigma. According to classical Marxism, peasants are passive ‘objects of history’ who must be transformed into industrial workers before they ca...

Two years ago the writer found plenty of evidence. Red flags, censored newspapers, directed excursions, indoctrinated schools, motivated plays, didactic pictures, and continuous radio messages preach communism. Appeals to the need for security and class loyalty, dogmatic assertion of Marxian philosophy, the example of leaders, and calls to participation are used as incentives to action. The res...