Published bimonthly since 1986, Against the Current is a Solidarity sponsored analytical journal for the broad revolutionary left. The January/February issue features The African-American Freedom Struggle with articles by Paul Ortiz on "Segregation and the Black Struggle Before the CIO," Alan Wald on "Richard Wright, The Great Outsider," and Kim D. Hunter's tribute to Miriam Makeba and Odetta. Articles on the economic crisis include "Bailing Out Banks, Smashing Unions" by Dianne Feeley and "2009: Twenty Million Jobless" by Jack Rasmus. Also read Malik Miah on "What Obama's Victory Means" and Steve Early on "Reading, Writing and Union Building."
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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.
A government in pandemonium: The first nine month of Pakistan Peoples Party rule Instability, price hikes, growing unemployment and rising debts are the hallmarks of the first nine months of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) government. There are daily demonstrations across Pakistan around one or another of these issues. Read More...
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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- Nearly 1000 NYers Protest Israeli Attacks on Gaza
by Chloe posted on 12/28/08
- Rick Warren and Africa
by Kate G posted on 12/25/08
- Strike Continues at Stella D'Oro in Bronx, New York
by Micah posted on 12/24/08
- From Athens, Greece to Augusta, Georgia, police murder provokes riots
by Isaac posted on 12/23/08
- NYC Mobilizes Against Proposed Cuts
by Chloe posted on 12/18/08
- Reflections on Malik Rahim's bid for Congress in Louisiana
by redstar504 posted on 12/11/08
- Some ideas and resources for do-it-yourself solidarity with Republic workers in Chicago
by Isaac posted on 12/10/08
- Troy Davis Hearing at the 11th Circuit Court
by Isaac posted on 12/9/08
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- 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
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
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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.
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Never Be A Soldier
[This classic, written in 1915, was one of numerous leaflets by Socialist Party leader Debs opposing World War I. His opponents sent co pies of this and other antiwar statements by Debs to the U.S. Attorney General. See Eugene Debs. Spokesman for Labor and Socialism, by Bernard Brommel (Charles H. Kerr, 1978), 117, and Tim Dayton's review of "We Called Each Other Comrade" in this issue of ATC.]
WORKING MEN ARE forced into war as working women are forced into prostitution.
Let us think for a moment!
The working man who turns soldier today becomes the hired assassin of his capitalist master. He goes on the murderers' pay roll at fifty cents a day, under orders to kill anybody, anywhere, at any time.
To refuse to brain his own mother in a hunger strike is treason to his potbellied master.
This is the vile and abject thing we call a soldier. Lower than the slimy, ripping depths in which this craven creature crawls, neither man nor beast can ever sink in time or eternity
Let us think another moment!
War is the crimson carnival where the drunken devils are unchained and the snarling dogs are "sicked" upon one another by their brutal masters; where they shoot off one another's heads, rip open one another's bellies and receive their baptism of patriotic devotion to their masters' anointed moneybags in a thousand spurting geysers of their own blood and brains and guts.
Working men and working women of America! Let us swear by all that is dear to us and all that is sacred to our cause, never to become a soldier and never to go to war!
If the pot-bellied masters insist upon the Crimson Carnival, the Devil's Bloody Debauch, they will henceforth rip out their own loins and livers, riot in their own blood and entrails and offer up their own mangled and putrescent carcasses on the blood-drenched altar of Mars and Mam-mon.
The dastard jingoes even now are plotting to force the United States into the seething maelstrom of fire and slaughter, pestilence and famines, misery and hell. Every subtle agency known to their infernal ingenuity is being employed to accomplish their satanic design.
The working men of America have it in their power to foil this monstrous conspiracy; to slay the demon of destruction and put an end to war here and everywhere, now and forevermore.
They have but to stand up like men and in the commanding voice of their class and the eternal glory of their cause proclaim the fiat of civilization and humanity:
LET THERE BE PEACE!
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