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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Against the Current

Against the Current is our bi-monthly analytical journal. As part of our larger project of regroupment and dialogue within the U.S. Left, the journal presents varying points of view on a wide variety of issues. As such, debates are frequent and informative, with the goal of promoting discussion among activists, organizers, and scholars on the Left.

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SOLIDARITY was formed as part of a project of regroupment of the U.S. Left. This publication, as part of this project, presents many points of view. As such, debates are frequent and informative, and the level of analysis is very high. Against the Current's goal is to promote dialogue among activists, organizers, and serious scholars on the Left.

Readers will find this publication informative and challenging. (ISSN: 0739-4853)

Against the Current Editorial Board

Editors

  • Robert Brenner
  • Dianne Feeley
  • David Finkel
  • John McGough
  • Ursula McTaggart
  • Malik Miah
  • Susan Weissman
  • Alan Wald
  • Charles Williams

Advisory Editors

  • Sara Abraham
  • Delia Aguilar
  • Manuel Aguilar-Mora
  • Perry Anderson
  • Rafael Bernabe
  • Purnima Bose
  • Stephanie Luce
  • Melba Joyce Boyd
  • Johanna Brenner
  • Noam Chomsky
  • Stephanie Coontz
  • Mike Davis
  • Peter Drucker
  • Terry Eagleton
  • Ansar Fayyazuddin
  • Ann Ferguson
  • Milton Fisk
  • Cecilia Green
  • Adolfo Gilly
  • Nancy Holmstrom
  • Kim D. Hunter
  • Alison Jaggar
  • James Kavanagh
  • Robin D.G. Kelley
  • Michael Löwy
  • Stephanie Luce
  • Val Moghadam
  • James Petras
  • Christopher Phelps
  • Nomi Prins
  • Joanne Rappaport
  • Marsha Rummel
  • Abra Quinn
  • David Roediger
  • Anwar Shaikh
  • Jane Slaughter
  • Tony Smith
  • Tim Schermerhom
  • Hillel Ticktin
  • Heather Ann Thompson
  • Dolores Trevizo
  • Ellen Meiksins Wood
  • Julia Wrigley