Songs for Single Payer

During the dirty thirties in Canada the people with curable diseases died from those diseases because unlesss they worked for the company (Mining Coal) for instance, no doctor would look after them and treat them with the necessary medicines and etc. The Coal Miners through the United Miners of America Canada seen this as wrongheaded and decided to fight the state on this issue. My father was the president of the miners union in Natal-Michelle in the Kootenays and they decided for strike. The RCMP began bringing in scabs from Alberta and therefore the miners put five sharpshooters around the hills in the forests, and the first scab at the Pit head that reached for a miners' hat a bullet came through the window six inches from his head. They all turned and ran from that and my father turned and said "now inspector Nelson get these scabs out of here or the next one goes throught your head. They all ran and the strikers won the strike and for the first time in the English Empire medicare was provided free to the people. They got twenty beds in Natal-Michelle and five beds in Corbin, an nearby town. The one proviso made by the union members was that each recipient of medicare treatment had to show up when well in health, to the May First parade down the main street on Internationale workers day.

The task of national medicare was then handed over to the CCF, the Co-operative commonwealth Federation a political social democratic party to make it a political progamme for the whole nation and single payer as the path. Tommy Douglas, Canadas' first elected democratic socialist Provincial Premier of Saskatchewan brought in comprehensive medicare for the people that was then made a national social programme. The fact that it has not been fully applied only shows that there is much to do in organizing locally, nationally, and internationally. Viva socialist liberation. End pollution wars and cure all diseases, not endless wars for more pollution. Re-tool the industrial revolution to wind, tidal, and solar power which transforms to electricity and is more power than can be used by society. Up to date there are far to many wars which cause sickness and diseases going on to say that medicare has been really fully lived up to. The anti-war movement in all its spheres in the true path to liberation from disease causing agressive wars foreign and local.