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Published bimonthly since 1986, AGAINST THE CURRENT is a Solidarity-sponsored analytical journal for the broad revolutionary left. The January/February 2012 issue features fourteen articles on the Occupy movement, its strategies, and actions in a number of U.S. cities. ATC’s Black History feature: Paul Ortiz on C.L.R. James’ Visionary Legacy and Derrick Morrison reviews a study of the least-known slave uprising. Hisham H. Ahmed writes about the Arab Spring, the West and Political Islam and ATC interviews Atef Said on Egypt’s Unfinished Revolution. Additional reviews by Bruce Levine, Kathlene McDonald, Susan Dirr and Tessa Echeverria and Michael Löwy. Subscribe today!
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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.
02/10/12 02:15
On February 1, 2012, Robert Fisk ended his article in the British daily newspaper “The Independent” as follows: “But there is one unasked question. Just suppose the regime [of Bashar al-Assad] did survive. Over what kind of Syria would it rule?” In other words, the revolt has reached a point of no return.
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Syria,
Arab Revolutions
02/9/12 10:04
"Prosecute the Cabal!" With millions of on strike and crowds singing Solidarity Forever, Occupy Nigeria has shut down the most populous country in Africa. Here in New York, the diaspora is rallying in support as well, and on Saturday, Jan. 14, I went to the second rally at the Nigerian Embassy and the UN this week. Though big labor actions might be more common in Nigerian than in the US, folks are saying this one feels different. Maybe it's the wave of protest against neoliberalism around the world in 2011, maybe it's the corruption—facilitated by neoliberal deregulation — or maybe it's the high unemployment rates (over 40% among young workers), maybe it's that oil is so central to the economy; or maybe it's all of this together.
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Nigeria,
Trade unions,
Global Justice
02/9/12 07:46
Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) is not the typical politician. He says what he thinks and lets the chips fall where they may. He's against the war in Afghanistan and against any U.S. invasion of Iran. He points out that U.S. policy in the Middle East “has only intensified strife and conflict” and “U.S. tax dollars have militarized the entire region.”
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I'm cooking up some new Mp3s
There are so many great, powerful songs about the hunger strikes. I once sat in a bar in West Belfast and watched hardened, 40-something former guerrillas tear up and raise a fist to the song "Joe McDonnell" as it was performed on stage by a former political prisoner. For so many reasons the musical tradition that has grown out of that struggle is truly inspiring. The chorus to "Joe McDonnell", one of the hunger strikers of 1981, goes as follows:
"And you dare to call me a terrorist
while you look down your gun
and I think of all the deeds that you have done
You have plundered many nations
divided many land
You have terrorized my people,
you ruled with an iron hand
And you brought the reign of terror to my land"
There are also terrific tunes about many other specific events on the last forty years. There is a rollicking number that pays tribute to the eight leading IRA militants who were gunned down by the SAS in an ambush in 1987 called simply "Loughgall Martyrs" (the chorus defiantly asks "England, do you really think it's over?/ If you do you're gunna have to kill us all"). There is a beautiful song based on the writings of Bobby Sands called "Marcella" as well as plenty of other Bobby Sands penned poems set to music. "The Rhythm of Time" is probably Sands' best known adapted poem. It is a powerful recollection of all the ways that people have fought injustice through the ages.
"Ten Brave Men" is a widely preformed song about the hunger strikes, so is the pride inducing tune "Role of Honor". These last two songs, as well as "Loughgall Martyrs", have been popularized by the 'rebel band' Eire Og of Glasgow, Scotland. There are bands that specialize in republican-themed music across the Irish diaspora, from San Fransisco's Bog Savages (fronted by a former IRA political prisoner) to Dublin's Adelante to New York's legendary Black 47 (who, wonderfully, are essentially an anti-imperialist bar band).
I promise I'm going to get some more rebel music Mp3s up on the webzine! Let me search around for the choicest tracks.