Videos from Solidarity's Educational Conference

November 14-15 in New York City, Solidarity held a successful conference featuring engaging talks on a number of topics. Click here to view these videos from "Their Crisis, Our Movements"

- Crisis of Capitalism, Challenge to the Movements (David McNally, New Socialist Group)
- The New Imperialism and The Global Fightback (Vivek Chibber, Christy Thornton, Jonah McCallister-Erickson)
- The State of Resistance in Communities & the Workplace (Normahiram Perez, Steve Downs, Penelope Duggan)
- Race and National Liberation Under Obama (Glen Ford, Lalit Clarkston)

Against the Current

Published bimonthly since 1986, AGAINST THE CURRENT is a Solidarity-sponsored analytical journal for the broad revolutionary left. The January/February issue begins with an editorial on the road from Copenhagen with a second editorial on Obama's war in Afghanistan. Articles include Bushra Khaliq on how climate change adversely effects women in the Global South, Adaner Usmani on the official narrative about Pakistan, Micah Landau and Rene Rojas on the 11-month Stella D'oro strike and Malik Miah on how the recession has disproportionately impacted African Americans. ATC 144 features "African-American Struggle, Yesterday and Today" with Derrick Morrison on Post-Katrina New Orleans and a number of reviews by activists and scholars.


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Blocked Reform: Obama After 200 Days

The Obama presidency, contrary to the hopes of many, has not produced a big political space for the left, let alone “a seat at the table.” Most visibly, it has been the right wing that succeeded in seizing the initiative, in some truly grotesque ways that have thrown a real light on the deep paranoia and straight-up white racism that persists in this society, and on the ways it can be opportunistically pandered to and manipulated.
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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.

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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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Video: Anwar Shaikh on Marx and the Global Economic Crisis

Submitted by ec on June 9, 2009 - 3:00pm

Anwar Shaikh, Professor at the New School for Social Research, gives a Marxist account of historic fluctuations in the capitalist economy and how the current crisis fits in the overall picture. From the Marx and the Global Economic Crisis panel at Left Forum 2009, New York.

Shaikh's homepage, which includes an extensive selection of his articles on economics, can be found here: http://homepage.newschool.edu/~AShaikh/


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Some help

Submitted by Carlos (not verified) on June 29, 2009 - 2:03am.

Dear comrades:

I'm part of a marxist study group in Chile (called, "Grupo de Estudios Marxistas" - GEM), and a few days ago we saw Anwar Shaikh`s lecture about economic crisis, from the Marx and the Global Economic Crisis panel at Left Forum.

Well, we are looking forward to translate it in to spanish, and we`ve been translating what we could, but we've got some problems with some of the terms of the discipline's language -in english-. We would be very glad if you could help us with this.

Revolutionary greetings,

- Carlos.

PS. You can write us in grupomarxismo@gmail.com

Other lectures?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on July 19, 2009 - 2:32pm.

Prof. Shaikh mentioned "tomorrow's lecture." Was this and/or subsequent lectures recorded? If so, will they be posted? This one was great!

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