Published bimonthly since 1986, Against the Current is a Solidarity sponsored analytical journal for the broad revolutionary left. The July/ August ATC begins with an editorial on the two Obamas--the one whose approach fills voters with expectations that U.S. policy can be different, and the centrist Democrat that Obama's record suggests he is. Jack Rasmus writes about the new phase of the economic crisis, Nomi Prins comments on the housing mess and Lesley Gill discusses implications on the transfer of the Colombian paramilitaries to U.S. custody. Jeffery Webber's review essay takes up the themes of Socialist Register 2008: empire, religion and liberation, particularly in Latin America and the Middle East.


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Protests against Pakistani government: Over 3000 activists and supporters of the Labour Party Pakistan took part in rally at Lahore June 6 against the ongoing neoliberal policies of the present Pakistan People’s Party government.
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A Historic Long March That Fell Short: Farooq Tariq reports on "Lawyers’ leadership on the road from resistance to reconciliation".
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Pakistan: Corruption in Privatization:There has been massive corruption during the eight years of the Pervez Musharraf-Shoukat Aziz period (1999-2007). While the regime has claimed the privatization process key to economic development, the reality is that it was a total disaster.
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Burmese Cyclone: Wave of Burmese solidarity forces regime to retreat on cyclone, by Marc Johnson



"Venezuela: the Referendum and the Revolution" collects four 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 in December 2007.

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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.