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.
See the latest issue...
View the archives...
Subscribe!
Write a letter to the editor...
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.
Bomb kills 60, injures 250 at Islamabad Marriott: Most of the 60 dead and over 250 injured as a result of suicide attack on a five-star Marriott Hotel in Islamabad were security guards and drivers. Read More...
Donate
Solidarity depends on the generous contributions of its friends and allies to continue its work. Please consider giving!
User login
- March for Equality: Nationwide Protests Against Proposition 8
by jonhseattle posted on 11/13/08
- The War(s) at Home: the Iraq War in movies
by Maeve66 posted on 11/3/08
- Revolutionary Work in Our Times
by Stephanie L posted on 11/3/08
- More on FMPR: Beating the Odds, Independent PR Teachers Union Trounces SEIU in Representation Election
by Micah posted on 11/2/08
- Howie Hawkins Press Release
by dws posted on 10/29/08
- Puerto Rico's Teachers Show the Way; SEIU Learns the Meaning of "No"
by Steve posted on 10/24/08
- Growing movement wins another stay of execution for Troy Davis!
by Isaac posted on 10/24/08
- A Radical Response: Understanding the Crisis and Building a Movement
by Kate G posted on 10/20/08
from the Webzine
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.”
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.
Download the pamphlet...
Troy Davis is innocent.
Submitted by Isaac on September 23, 2008 - 2:03pm.
Call and response chants of "I am: Troy Davis! We are: Troy Davis" and "Innocence: Matters! Justice: Matters!" echoed through the streets of downtown Atlanta last Thursday, a week after the state of Georgia denied clemency for Troy Davis. A multiracial crowd of over three hundred demonstrators were mobilized by several organizations - chiefly Amnesty International, which has helped rally global awareness about the Davis case. Just one week before, a crowd that I'm told was twice as large (I was out of the state) gathered at the state Capitol to assert his innocence.
Despite overwhelming evidence of his innocence, Troy Davis has been on Death Row for nearly twenty years. In 1991 he was charged with the murder of Mark McPhail, a white Savannah police officer, in 1989. The single thread of truth in Davis' sentencing was his (admitted) presence at the fast food restaurant where McPhail was killed. In a chilling reminder that Jim Crow justice lives on, the prosecution was marked by speedy accusations intimidation of witnesses by police and prosecutors. Seven of nine key witnesses have taken back their testimony, citing intimidation. One of the other two pieces of testimony does not even match Troy Davis (the killer was left-handed, Troy favors his right hand) - and the other comes from a Sylvester Coles, who was himself a suspect in the killing prior to his testimony.
Last July, Davis was saved from execution hours before the state was scheduled to murder him. Activists hoped that the righteousness of Davis' case and broad support (not just from below, but also ruling class figures like the Pope, 'Peanut President' Jimmy Carter - and, according to Davis' sister, a personal phone call from right-wing French President Nicolas Sarkozy) can once again intervene to preserve the life of this innocent man. There is a demonstration scheduled for tonight. Hopefully, it will be a celebration that his 7pm execution has been halted. It may be a solemn vigil commemorating the 43rd human being killed by the state of Georgia since 1977.
If you are in Atlanta, show up at the State Capitol tonight at 6pm. In other parts of the US (or world?) check the web for demonstrations in your area. Abolish the death penalty!
Visit Troy's website at troyanthonydavis.org. The website for Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty here and Amnesty International's page on Troy Davis here.
Socialist Worker has carried two important articles recently: Visiting an Innocent Man on Death Row and a letter from California Death Row prisoner Kevin Cooper, Troy Davis is My Brother.
Photos and video from the September 18 march
Troy Anthony Davis
Excellent post.
Thank you for this great opportunity to feel a part of that physical protest.
Also, take a moment to engage an array of resources on the Troy Davis case at this link:
Meet Troy Davis
Thanks,
Terry
Post new comment