Against the Current

Published bimonthly since 1986, Against the Current is a Solidarity sponsored analytical journal for the broad revolutionary left. The May/ June issue of ATC features an editorial and article by Malik Miah on the Democratic Party nomination battle and what's revealed by the controversy over Obama and Black liberation theory. Also an interview with Mike Davis, analysis of the American Axle strike--longer than the GM strike of 1970--and decertification of the aircraft mechanics at United. Continuation of Women Remember '68 with contributions by Meredith Tax, Ann Ferguson, Miriam Ching Young Louie, Kipp Dawson & Wendy Thompson.

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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.

Pakistan: Read about the elections results from Farooq Sulehria, a member of the Labour Party Pakistan.



"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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Hell On Wheels: Success & Failure of Reform in TWU 100

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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June Antiwar Conference: An Opportunity for the Movement

A broad list of endorsers (individuals and organizations) have issued the call for an "Open National Conference to Stop the War in Iraq and Bring the Troops Home Now," scheduled to take place in Cleveland, Ohio, this coming June 28-29.

Solidarity welcomes this development. Read more...

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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Against the Current

Against the Current is our bi-monthly analytical journal, and is our contribution to a broad discussion of a wide variety of issues among the Left. An in-depth analysis and a thorough review of issues is the norm for this magazine.

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SOLIDARITY was formed as part of a project of regroupment of the U.S. Left. This publication, as part of this project, presents many points of view. As such, debates are frequent and informative, and the level of analysis is very high. Against the Current's goal is to promote dialogue among activists, organizers, and serious scholars on the Left.

Readers will find this publication informative and challenging. (ISSN: 0739-4853)

Against the Current Editorial Board

Editors

  • Robert Brenner
  • Dianne Feeley
  • David Finkel
  • Stephanie Luce
  • Malik Miah
  • Susan Weissman
  • Alan Wald
  • Charles Williams

Advisory Editors

  • Sara Abraham
  • Delia Aguilar
  • Manuel Aguilar-Mora
  • Perry Anderson
  • Rafael Bernabe
  • Melba Joyce Boyd
  • Johanna Brenner
  • Noam Chomsky
  • Stephanie Coontz
  • Mike Davis
  • Peter Drucker
  • Terry Eagleton
  • Sam Farber
  • Ann Ferguson
  • Milton Fisk
  • Cecilia Green
  • Adolfo Gilly
  • Nancy Holmstrom
  • Kim D. Hunter
  • Alison Jaggar
  • James Kavanagh
  • Robin D.G. Kelley
  • Michael Löwy
  • Val Moghadam
  • James Petras
  • Christopher Phelps
  • Nomi Prins
  • Joanne Rappaport
  • Marsha Rummel
  • Abra Quinn
  • David Roediger
  • Anwar Shaikh
  • Jane Slaughter
  • Tony Smith
  • Tim Schermerhom
  • Hillel Ticktin
  • Heather Ann Thompson
  • Dolores Trevizo
  • Ellen Meiksins Wood
  • Julia Wrigley