Poorer people are more likely to die of breast cancer. Something most of us would have guessed, but at least its getting in the mainstream press. From the Edinburgh Evening News.

The poorest and most deprived areas in Edinburgh are missing out in the new way of distributing funds formerly known as "Community Regeneration". The Unfairer Scotland Fund will cut the money going into North Edinburgh by about half to nearly 1 million. This will damage projects like the Pilton Elderly Project and the Granton Youth Centre. For more information see: http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Poorest-areas-missing-out-as.4475765.jp

‘FARE STRIKE! 2005: First-Hand Accounts’ is a collection of first-person stories from nine members of a group called Muni Fare Strike, which was involved in an attempt to get together a city-wide transit system fare strike in San Francisco in the summer and fall of 2005. ‘FARE STRIKE!’ begins by misrepresenting the politics that the pamphlet’s authors asserted in the attempted fare strike, trying to make their conventional leftist efforts sound implacably anti-capitalist and revolutionary. However, ‘FARE STRIKE!’ quickly shifts tone and, perhaps unintentionally, gives a more honest and accurate picture of the nine participants’ individual and collective befuddlement in the way they organized their efforts, in their admitted inability to effectively communicate their goals to transit system riders in the immediate context of the fare strike, and in their lack of a larger coherent anti-capitalist vision. In an essay about the deficiencies of the detective fiction of his day, Dashiell Hammett wrote that for a pistol to be called a revolver it mush have something that revolves. For a contemporary class struggle effort to be authentically antagonistic to capitalist society it cannot be the exact same thing conventional leftists do, only done by people who will long after the fact boast of their window-shoppers’ affinity for the ultra-left, and jazz up their wholly conventional leftist actions with references to Midnight Notes and Rosa Luxemburg and quotes from Guy Debord. [Ultra-leftists are so cute when they fight]