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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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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,
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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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How to Engage
In response to Red Dave, may I suggest that there are hundred different ways of engaging the young, eager and change minded folk who are backing the Obama campaign. Here are a few ideas:
Register on the Obama for America website and respectfully engage in the discussions which take place there on the issues. So far we have been able to start great discussions about Isreal, and the apartheid nature of the regime; Cuba and the US foreign policy shift which Obama suggests in yestrerday's speech to the guasanos of the Cuban American NAtional Foundation.
Join in the Change for America voter registration drives.These are not just Obama events, but are vehicles rteaching out to young and old unregistered voters of colour. Nearly 1100 organizers turned up the first weekend in Harlem.
Challenge (by inviting) the Obama campaign offices, and the central campaign, to join in the anti-war mobilizations, and local Latin American solidarity activities.
For those in the Bay area, since Obama has endorsed the janitors strike, organize the Obama campaigns there to join in a solidarity rally.
These are just the things which come to mind.
Comrade Malik is right in his analysis about the meaning of the Obama campaign, and its impact on the millions of Americans yearning for a new tomorrow.To find ways to engage with those youth, particularly those working class and student touth who have signed on to be trained by the Obama Organizing Fellowships, will provide the base to help build the revolutionary left AFTER the Obama presidency fails to deliver on those expectations which have been raised sky high by the Obama campaign.
If you take the time to read his two books, you will quickly realize that this person is one of the smartest politicans which has emerged in America in a long, long time. He knows that American imperialism is in trouble, and he is setting out to create a New Deal Lite scenario in order to head off the social explosions he knows are coming, if "things don't change".
Fraternally. Red Bob