the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
April 20, 2026
The author does an incredible job of following Johnson & Johnson through decades of lying and harm. He details nine case studies, nine examples of drugs that actually did more harm than good, all the while making the company billions. They included a cancer drug that actually caused the cancer to grow; an anti-psychotic medicine for troubled youths that caused boys to grow breasts; vaginal meshes which caused women to not be able to have sex or be pain-free the rest of their lives. And don’t forget the baby powder that caused cervical or ovarian cancer.
Where was the FDA? The book reveals that the FDA gets their funding from the same pharmaceutical companies that they oversee, so they rarely oppose them. Fines are sometimes eventually issued but they barely put a dent in the billions in profits that Johnson & Johnson was raking in.
No wonder no one trusts the medical establishment!
This acclaimed, award-winning film stars Wagner Moura as a Brazilian man on the run in 1977 during Brazil’s military dictatorship. He is a public university research scientist who comes up against a corporation that wants to privatize and profit from his inventions. You see the rampant corruption of the dictatorship, the indifference to crime, and the violence of the state. Yet you also see the beauty of the working population, the close ties of friends and family, the underground resistance and amidst it all, the joy of Carnival, a uniquely Brazilian holiday.