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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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02/12/12 01:51
Since the beginning of the Greek public debt crisis three different demands have been put forward by the left and the workers' movement: either to restructure (and so reduce), to audit or to cancel the debt. This is not just a matter of slogans, but it also implies different political strategies. OKDE-Spartakos, as well as ANTARSYA, despite its contradictions, have opted for the third choice.
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Debt
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
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But mass action *is* being planned for this year
I agree with the broad political thrust of this post. But the key factual premise -- that "none of the forces currently involved are calling for mass action, as we understand it, as a sustained strategy" -- is just incorrect.
Please visit the website, actforclimatejustice.org,, which calls on "communities, organizations and activists across North America to join us in organizing mass action on climate change on November 30, 2009 (N30). N30 is significant because it both immediately precedes the upcoming UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen (COP-15) and is the ten-year anniversary of the successful shut down of the WTO in Seattle, when activists worldwide came together to demonstrate the power of collective action."
This has nothing to do with -- to repeat your rather dismissive and contemptuous phrase -- "college kids getting arrested at strip mines" (which I think is also part of a mass action, movement-building strategy). It explicitly takes the Seattle 1999 protest as its model, and I assume you would concede that this model constitutes "mass action" (even in your perhaps unusually limited sense). Moreover, it is not proposed as a "one-off" spectacle, but as a part of a longer-range process of tactical escalation in the context of building a continental mass movement for climate justice.
I will be attending a meeting tonight (8 June) to launch a local group here in London, Ontario, Canada, which will take on the task of organizing an action here, as part of this project. I urge socialists to get involved in this and/or related projects (and that's what I mean when I say that I agree with the overall political thrust of this post).
In solidarity,
Steve
London Project for a Participatory Society