Published bimonthly since 1986, Against the Current is a Solidarity sponsored analytical journal for the broad revolutionary left. The July/ August ATC begins with an editorial on the two Obamas--the one whose approach fills voters with expectations that U.S. policy can be different, and the centrist Democrat that Obama's record suggests he is. Jack Rasmus writes about the new phase of the economic crisis, Nomi Prins comments on the housing mess and Lesley Gill discusses implications on the transfer of the Colombian paramilitaries to U.S. custody. Jeffery Webber's review essay takes up the themes of Socialist Register 2008: empire, religion and liberation, particularly in Latin America and the Middle East.


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International Viewpoint is the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International. IV is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow.

Protests against Pakistani government: Over 3000 activists and supporters of the Labour Party Pakistan took part in rally at Lahore June 6 against the ongoing neoliberal policies of the present Pakistan People’s Party government.
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A Historic Long March That Fell Short: Farooq Tariq reports on "Lawyers’ leadership on the road from resistance to reconciliation".
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Pakistan: Corruption in Privatization:There has been massive corruption during the eight years of the Pervez Musharraf-Shoukat Aziz period (1999-2007). While the regime has claimed the privatization process key to economic development, the reality is that it was a total disaster.
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Burmese Cyclone: Wave of Burmese solidarity forces regime to retreat on cyclone, by Marc Johnson



"Venezuela: the Referendum and the Revolution" collects four contributions reflect a partial cross-section of the rich and complex discussion taking place in the Venezuelan and international left just before and immediately after the narrow defeat of the Constitutional referendum in December 2007.

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Regroupment & Refoundation of a U.S. Left

As part of the preparation for our 2008 Convention, members of SOLIDARITY have begun a political document describing some perspectives for socialist renewal in the twenty-first century. We welcome responses to this initial draft of the document. Some of the themes here have also been developed in Solidarity's Founding Statement and our 1997 pamphlet, “Socialist Organization Today.”

— Introduction
— Social Movements over the Last Two Decades
— Regroupment, Refounding and the Arc of Resistance
— Refounding a New Left: Next Generations & Their Experiences
— The Tasks and Possibilities of a U.S. Refounded Left
— Refounding the Left: Taking Our Past Into Our Future

New Pamphlet: Hell on Wheels

New from Solidarity! Long time transit worker activist Steve Downs has written a pamphlet charting the twenty year story of New Directions, a rank and file caucus in New York City's transit union that he helped build and develop - including the challenges of keeping the rank and file democracy movement alive after New Directions won control of the local.

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In Memoriam: Elissa Jane Karg Chacker

Elissa Karg Chacker, a longtime member of Solidarity and previously the International Socialists (IS) in Detroit, died Sunday, May 11 from injuries suffered in an accident a week earlier. Riding her bicycle home after a Solidarity meeting, she was struck by a car and never regained consciousness.
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From Abortion Rights to Reproductive Justice

New from Solidarity's Feminist Commission, this leaflet responds to the right wing attack on reproductive freedom and argues that the movement must go beyond "pro-choice" to true reproductive justice. This socialist and anti-racist feminist agenda would take up issues such as access to health and child care, forced sterilization, and the division of "productive" and "reproductive" labor.
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All Pakistan Trade Union Federation Vice-General Secretary Released

Pakistan Update!

The All Pakistan Trade Union Federation (APTUF) announces that its vice-General Secretary, Farid Awan, was recently freed

Through a phone communiqué with the headquarters of the ILC, the leaders of the Pakistani trade union federation, on the morning of November 26, informed us that Awan had been freed - but that the charges leveled against him in the framework of the state of emergency were not dropped.

Hundreds of trade union activists remain in prison. The APTUF asked the ILC to make known its thanks to all those, throughout the world, who mobilized to demand the liberation of Farid Awan.

In only a few days, hundreds of messages from trade unions and activists from all continents (Afghanistan, Germany, Bangladesh, Brazil, Burundi, Cameroon, Spain, the United States, France, Gabon, Great Britain, Guadeloupe, India, Iraq, Italy, Philippines, Republic of Maurice, Senegal, Switzerland, Sri Lanka) were sent to the Pakistani authorities. Delegations were organized to embassies in Paris and Madrid.

The APTUF also informed us that, in the difficult situation created by the state of emergency and the wave of repression, the workers' movement has not given up.

On November 14, on the initiative of the APTUF, gatherings and meetings took place in the factories or at their entrances and in the industrial centers of the country, "demanding the release of the trade union activists, judges, and lawyers who have been imprisoned; the end to all limits on trade union activity; and the reestablishment of the freedom of expression."

At the same time, the workers' movement looks to unite. In response to a proposal by the APTUF, the Pakistan Workers' Confederation, which regroups in a united front several trade union organizations, met and wrote a common declaration. It states, in part: "The trade unions proclaim together: the workers' movement wants democracy. They launch an independent appeal to defend workers' rights and to defend the country against any foreign intervention. The Pakistani people have the right to determine their own future. The workers should have the right to freely organize into their own organizations."

The APTUF calls on everybody to continue in all countries the campaign for the release of all the imprisoned activists.