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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.
02/12/12 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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The meaning of "mass action"
Boyd,
Thanks for your articulate and thought-provoking comment. I think you described perfectly what a developed mass movement ought to be. However, such a movement can't be built overnight, and it would be counterproductive of me to criticize a movement which is just beginning for not being so. I was being a tad flippant when I counterposed action-by-masses to mass action, and I don't really intend that to be taken as a serious dichotomy. What I was getting at, though, was that the liberal wing of the climate movement does not take what I would call a "political" attitude in raising its agenda. What I mean by this, to put it rather inexactly, is that it is not aware that it has to make demands of the government; it thinks that it can get what it wants through a combination of moral persuasion and friendly pressure – which is not really pressure at all, since it carries no threat. (In this sense I was borrowing the use of the term "mass action" from the National Assembly.) It seems to me that adopting an oppositional or demanding attitude towards the state is a necessary first step towards the kind of self-conscious, developed movement that you describe.
I wonder if anyone else has thoughts on what constitutes "mass action" or a "mass movement". It's becoming a bit of a buzzword on the left these days, and we really ought to clarify what we mean by it.
-Nick