Published bimonthly since 1986, Against the Current is a Solidarity-sponsored analytical journal for the broad revolutionary left. The July/August issue features an interview with Ashok Kumar on "Sri Lanka: Behind the Massacre," Charlie Post on "Exploring the Roots of the Crisis," an interview with David Bacon on the struggle for immigrant rights, and Ursula McTaggart advocating collaboration between socialists and anarchists. On the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution ATC presents "Views on Cuba," with articles by Janette Habel, Frank Thompson, James D. Cockcroft and Samuel Farber.


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Reads Bail out People, not Wall Street!. Around the edge, these 2 1/8" buttons read "Free Health Care," "Defend Public Services," "Living Wage Jobs," "Free Higher Education," "Troops Home Now," "Rebuild the Gulf Coast," and "Affordable Housing."

Bright orange 1 1/2" buttons boldly demand: "Bring the Troops Home Now!" Wear one everywhere to start a conversation about why US occupation can never be a force for liberation, and people's needs should come before the massive military budget.

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Produced during the massive immigrant rights demonstrations of 2006, these 2 1/8" buttons read, in Spanish and English: ¡exigimos Paz, Legalización, y Trabajos para Todos! we demand Peace, Legalization, and Jobs for All!

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Palestine and the Antiwar Movement


New from Solidarity. A two page comic strip tackles the link between Palestine and the war in Iraq. Traces the history of U.S engagement in the region using fifteen panels of original art and accompanying text. Please download and distribute in your area!
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Chicago Workers’ Victory an Inspiration in Hard Times

On December 10, workers at Chicago's Republic Window and Door company ended a six-day occupation of their factory. They had been laid off after Bank of America refused to extend credit to pay them severance, but through militant action, a democratic union, and solidarity, they own a victory against the financial giant.
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Solidarity statements
- Autoworkers Respond to the Crisis
- 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
- The Current Economic Crisis, 1987 pamphlet by Anwar Shaikh, with a new intro by Charlie Post

From Against the Current:
- Dianne Feeley: Bailing Out Banks, Smashing Unions
- 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.

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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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Neal Wood, 1922-2003

— Christopher Phelps and Robert Brenner

WE LAMENT THE death of Neal Wood at age 81 of cancer on September 17 in England. A scholar of left-wing conviction whose work in the history of political thought was stunning for its acuity and historical scope, Neal was the husband of Ellen Meiksins Wood, with whom he wrote “Class Ideology and Ancient Political Theory” (1978) and “A Trumpet of Sedition” (1997).

Born in Los Angeles, Wood served in both Britain's Royal Air Force and the U.S. Air Force during and after the Second World War. On the G.I. Bill, he attended the University of California, Berkeley, graduating in history in 1951.

His doctorate from Berkeley followed upon research at Cambridge, leading to his first book, “Communism and British Intellectuals” (1959).

Neal Wood was the author of numerous subsequent articles and books on Locke, Cicero, Machiavelli, Augustine, Hobbes and other major thinkers. His persistent method was to root political philosophy in the social conflicts, popular struggles and property forms of their time, always treating political contemplation, however abstract, as an activity embedded in society.

Neal taught for the longest duration at York University in Toronto, Canada, where he and Ellen created an innovative Marxist variety of political theory. Forthcoming from Verso this winter is his last contribution, <MI>Tyranny in America.<D> An angry polemic against capitalism's creation of an increasingly undemocratic, ineqalitarian, incoherent and shallow form of life in contemporary America, the work wll, fittingly, be his most overtly radical.

Droll in wit, gourmet in taste, and nearly always wreathed in rich smoke from his pipe, Neal will be missed. A memorial meeting will take place in Toronto on December 8.

ATC 107, November-December 2003