Published bimonthly since 1986, Against the Current is a Solidarity sponsored analytical journal for the broad revolutionary left. The November/December issue features Jack Rasmus on "The Crisis Beneath the Bailout," Milton Fisk's analysis of the Obama and McCain health care plans, Malik Miah on how the financial crisis effects African Americans and Suzi Weissman's interview with Thomas Frank. International coverage includes Martin Hart-Landsberg on "The Realities of China Today" and Jeffery R. Webber on Bolivia following the August recall referendum as well as articles on France, Mexico and Argentina.


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Solidarity statements
- Their Crisis, Our Consequences: Is this what 1931 Looks Like?
- Understanding and Responding to the Economic Crisis (pdf)
- The Financial Meltdown and a Socialist Response

From Against the Current:
- Malik Miah: The Financial Calamity, Blacks and Obama
- Jack Rasmus: The Crisis Beneath the Bailout
- Nomi Prins: The Sub-Prime Market Crisis
- Bob Brenner: Devastating Crisis Unfolds
- Jack Rasmus: A New Phase of Economic Crisis

By Dan LaBotz on Monthly Review's MRZine:
- The Economic Crisis, the American Working Class, and the Left: The Situation Today and the Situation in 1930 (March 17, 2008)
- Confronting the Economic Crisis: The New Deal at 75 - Lessons for Today (April 8, 2008)
- The Financial Crisis: A View from the Left (September 24, 2008)
- World's Labor Federations React to Financial Crisis with Proposals from Re-regulation to Socialism (October 24, 2008)

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.

Read a review and order your copy today!

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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Venezuela: the Referendum and the Revolution

The following contributions reflect a partial cross-section of the rich and complex discussion taking place in the Venezuelan and international left just before and immediately after the narrow defeat of the Constitutional referendum. Undoubtedly the discussion will continue among all of us who view the social process in Venezuela as a beacon of hope in the resistance to savage neoliberalism and U.S. imperial domination.

The editors of Against the Current felt that we should present at least some of the diversity of opinion around the referendum, but the shortage of space in our new issue (#132) did not allow for this. Instead we are posting the material here for our readers. Thanks to Dan La Botz and Paul Lefrak for translations, Meleiza Figueroa for her efficient transcribing of Suzi Weissman’s interview with Mark Weisbrot, and to Suzi for making it available to us!


Constitutional reform supporters fill the streets of Caracas.

For ongoing coverage and perspectives on the revolution, check out Aporrea.org (in Spanish) and VenezuelAnalysis.com. Be sure to read "Venezuela’s Constitutional Reform: An Article-by-Article Summary" on the latter, which gives a background of the content of the proposed reforms. Suzi Weissman is a journalist who hosts the political news program Beneath The Surface on KPFK. Mark Weisbrot is an economist and the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC. Biardeau is a Marxist sociologist at the Universidad Central de Venezuela. This article is a translation from an essay that originally appeared on Aporrea. Stalin Pérez Bórges is a labor leader in Venezuela and one of the founders of the UNT (National Union of Workers), which formed in 2003 as a response to the CTV support of coups against Hugo Chavez. Orlando Chirino, Miguel Ángel Hernández, Emilio Bastidas, Armando Guerra, Rafel Ruiz are union leaders and members of the Movement for the Construction of a Workers Party. Éric Toussaint is a Belgian socialist and president of the the Coalition for the Abolition of Third World Debt.