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Against the Current

Published bimonthly since 1986, AGAINST THE CURRENT is a Solidarity-sponsored analytical journal for the broad revolutionary left. The Sept./Oct. issue features Malik Miah on How Race Fuels the Rightist Agenda, Kit Adam Wainer on Obama's Race to the Top vs. Teacher Unions and Susan Spronk and Jeffery R. Webber interviewing Venezuelan activists Gonzalo Gómez, Stalin Pérez Borges and Luis Primo on the processes of deepening the revolution. Coverage of The Mexican Revolution at 100 continues, featuring an interview with Adolpho Gilly and articles by Dan La Botz, James D. Cockcroft, Heather Dasner Monk, Fred Rosen and Scott Campbell.

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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.

Put a Socialist in the Senate!

Dan La Botz, a 64-year old Cincinnati school teacher, has filed petitions with the Ohio Secretary of State to become the candidate of the Socialist Party for the U.S. Senate. La Botz, who needed 500 signatures to get on the Socialist Party primary ballot, filed petitions with approximately 1,200 signatures on Thursday, Feb. 18. La Botz, a long time labor and social movement activist, is the candidate of the Socialist Party of Ohio which is the state organization of the Socialist Party USA.

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Reads Bail out People, not Wall Street!. Around the edge, these 2 1/8" buttons read "Free Health Care," "Defend Public Services," "Living Wage Jobs," "Free Higher Education," "Troops Home Now," "Rebuild the Gulf Coast," and "Affordable Housing."

Brown and black buttons demand: "Bring all the Troops Home Now!" Wear one everywhere to start a conversation about why US occupation can never be a force for liberation, and people's needs should come before the massive military budget.

These 2 1/8" buttons read, in Spanish and English: ¡Alto a las deporaciones - Legalización para todos! Stop the deportations - Legalization for all!

Videos from Solidarity's Educational Conference

November 14-15 in New York City, Solidarity held a successful conference featuring engaging talks on a number of topics. Click here to view these videos from "Their Crisis, Our Movements"

- Crisis of Capitalism, Challenge to the Movements (David McNally, New Socialist Group)
- The New Imperialism and The Global Fightback (Vivek Chibber, Christy Thornton, Jonah McCallister-Erickson)
- The State of Resistance in Communities & the Workplace (Normahiram Perez, Steve Downs, Penelope Duggan)
- Race and National Liberation Under Obama (Glen Ford, Lalit Clarkston)

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A Great Variety of Morbid Symptoms, Seen in the Reflecting Pool Yesterday
by John B. Cannon posted on 08/31/10
Education in the Crosshairs: Thoughts on the New Student Movement
by Nick posted on 08/13/10
Don't Just Snap, Organize... Let's "Slater" together!
by La Botz for Senate posted on 08/12/10
Pakistan: Over 20 million people affected by the flood
by Dianne posted on 08/11/10
Stop police harassment of anti-facists in Russia!
by Isaac posted on 08/8/10
As Santos Becomes Colombian President, U.S. Bases and Tensions Remain
by Dianne posted on 08/5/10
Immigrant Rights Protest at Mets Game - Exciting organizing!
by Nate posted on 08/2/10
Enough Is Enough... We’re Human Beings
by Joanna posted on 07/23/10
The Sentencing of Lynne Stewart
by Dianne posted on 07/21/10
NY Governor candidate Howie Hawkins Opposes Increased Jail Time for Lawyer Lynne Stewart
by Howie Hawkins posted on 07/19/10

Barbara Zeluck Presente!

Our comrade Barbara Zeluck died June 5, 2010. She was a lifelong socialist and founding member of Solidarity. Barbara had a long and active life, unwavering in her support for radical social change and movements that she felt were dedicated to mobilizing the working class and raising class consciousness. She always believed that a better world was possible. Read More...

One Year of Obama and the Democrats’ Debacle

Last fall, in the discussion that produced our analysis of “Obama After 200 Days,” we said it would be premature to speak of a “crisis” for the administration. A year after the euphoric 2009 inauguration, it no longer looks premature. People who looked to Obama and the Democrats for leadership are bitterly disappointed, and a very peculiar brand of rightwing politics has seized the initiative.
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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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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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Contemporary Rebel Music

Submitted by BradDuncan on May 12, 2008 - 5:51pm.

OK, comrades, I’ve got some hot new Rebel Music tracks for you. As I stated in the original post, Eire Og are a very popular Rebel band from Glasgow. They have since disbanded (but not decommissioned!) but their rollicking, sing-a-long performance style is still the one today’s bands emulate. They brought Rebel music into the 1990’s, a tumultuous and ultimately profoundly disappointing era for the republican cause. Eire Og kept spirits high as the movement was ‘winding down’.

1. Éire Óg “Loughgall Martyrs”
2. Eire Og “Go On Home British Soldiers”

These groups mainly identify with the Provisional IRA, which is the largest republican military group: the ‘mainstream IRA’ as it was. But there have been other guerrilla groups that have challenged British rule over the last 40 years of conflict. One such group is the explicitly socialist Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) and their political party, the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP). Ray Collins, a folk and bluesman who grew up in Belfast at the dawn of the recent war, is a long-standing performer whose solidarity is with the IRSP. Here is a great song from Ray praising the INLA for their daring and steadfastness fighting for national liberation and socialism. The next track is by an INLA-affiliated flute and drum group… a paramilitary must!

3. Ray Collins “INLA Freedom Fighters”
4. IRSM Derry Flute Band “Roll of Honor”

Gerry McGregor is a wonderful leftwing singer from Glasgow, Scotland, a town with a real legacy for producing exactly that kind of talent. I may focus on Scotland’s musical left in future installments. For now, here’s Gerry with two great tunes, recorded live in Scotland. The first song is about the death of young IRA volunteer Sean South, killed during the doomed “Border Campaign” of the 1950’s. Next is a song about the only way to get rid of pesky imperialist helicopters… Surface to Air Missiles (SAMs)! Liberate the skies!

5. Gerry McGregor “Sean South”
6. Gerry McGregor “SAM Song”

Again, the Mp3 series is just beginning. Future installments may include looks at Peggy Seeger, Dead Prez, Brazilian funk, and songs of the Cuban Revolution. Stay tuned.