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by Isaac posted on 05/11/08
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by Maeve66 posted on 05/2/08
- A People Centered Plan for Atlanta's Mass Transit
by Isaac posted on 04/30/08
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by BradDuncan posted on 04/25/08
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.
Read a review and order your copy today!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...
Poem of the month
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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JohnM's blog
Global Justice School - Days 6-15
Submitted by JohnM on April 20, 2008 - 5:13am.
(The arduous pace of the school, and it's work and social demands, means that I have not been able to keep up with my journal on a daily basis. Thus, I apologize for the partial summaries below; some of the fun, wacky, informal conversations are also left out, as I had to reconstruct some days from my notes. - John)
Global Justice School - Days 1-5
Submitted by JohnM on April 10, 2008 - 2:27pm.
I will attempt to write daily notes on the 3-week Global Justice School (Amsterdam, NE March 28-April 19) organized by the International Institute for Research and Education. I miss my comrades – and the start of the baseball season! – but it is a great experience being here.
On “Love in the Movement”
Submitted by JohnM on March 24, 2008 - 11:35am.
The “crisis of the Left” is usually referred to the disarray of movements, its weakened political and social power, the effects of demise of bureaucratic “really existing socialism”, and the neoliberal offensive. It remains our responsibility to seriously interrogate these conditions, study our world, and chart strategies for a new socialist project.
Class Solidarity Down the Toilet, with Blessings by the UAW
Submitted by JohnM on February 20, 2008 - 4:29pm.
The genuises at The Onion understand well Freud's discovery of how jokes reveal a side of truth and reality that we, for one reason or another, are unwilling to admit to ourselves up front. Thus the recent article "GM Introduces New 2008 Line Of Layoffs."
( categories: UAW )
2008 Elections: Are We Having Fun Yet?
Submitted by JohnM on November 6, 2007 - 12:00am.
Like Christmas, the US bourgeois electoral cycle seems to start earlier every time around. The scripted, stage-managed debates, the empty moralisms and focus-group politics, competition for Oprah’s endorsement – yep, there must be a national election soon. Besides recognizing the increasingly vapid terms of political debate at the national stage and entertainment spectacle of it all, there are important shifts and realignments already surfacing.
Crandall Canyon: Sign of the Times
Submitted by JohnM on August 24, 2007 - 1:48pm.
"Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine" Merle Travis
"The system is broken." Utah Governor Jon Huntsman Jr. Aug 23
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