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- Working Class Casualties: Mumbai and Long Island
by Isaac posted on 11/29/08
- Major Transit Cuts Threaten NYC
by Chloe posted on 11/26/08
- 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
from the Webzine
- Funding public transportationbyFrances Chapman (not verified)onMajor Transit Cuts Threaten NYC
- correctionbyCBS (not verified)onSome Talking Points on the Financial Crisis
- Thank you Remy for sortingbyAnonymous (not verified)onFrance: A Sea Change on the Left
- thanks abra!bybmcampb (not verified)onThe War(s) at Home: the Iraq War in movies
- Recertification of FMPRbyMicahonPuerto Rico's Teachers Show the Way; SEIU Learns the Meaning of "No"
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.
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Cities
Major Transit Cuts Threaten NYC
Submitted by Chloe on November 26, 2008 - 12:35pm.
On Thursday November 20, the Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) met to discuss budget cuts.
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Detroit and my "romantic" dream
Submitted by SHL on May 19, 2008 - 3:02pm.
I had a “romantic” dream about Detroit when driving to the city for my summer job last year. If anyone has been in Detroit, he or she would know that there are many abandoned buildings. Abandoned, of course, does not mean devoid of “legal” and “private” owners. Nevertheless, what if we socialists, workers, and homeless people were to physically occupy abandoned buildings and use them as our offices, homes, and conference places, and eventually make the city into a “socialist city”?
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A People Centered Plan for Atlanta's Mass Transit
Submitted by Isaac on April 30, 2008 - 2:49pm.
At long last, Atlanta Jobs with Justice has released their excellent study and plan for regional transit centered on the needs of riders and workers. You can download the report from Atlanta JwJ's website or download it directly here. The study is the project of years of research and organizing with the Transit Riders Union - a group of transit-dependent riders and disabled riders - and workers in our transit system, MARTA, who are represented by Amalgamated Transit Union 732. This is in our corner of the ring.
Bulldozers set to destroy public housing in New Orleans: Tens of thousands homeless
Submitted by redstar504 on December 11, 2007 - 11:18pm.
Image from New Orleans IndyMedia
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Spatiality and Working Class Solidarity
Submitted by SHL on December 6, 2007 - 12:32am.
Many geographers since the 1960s have studied impacts of “spatiality” in working class solidarity. Simply put, every society in a certain historical period has its own particular ways of creating, arranging, and rearranging social and physical spaces, and the processes and the outcomes of spatial arrangements affect workers’ ways of looking at the world, social relations, and their own lives.
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Fighting Against the Storm
Submitted by Nate on November 24, 2007 - 1:17am.
On Nov. 10th several hundred community members met at historic St. Mary’s Church in Harlem and marched through the public housing complex chanting “Harlem: Not For Sale!” and “Public Housing: Not For Sale!” to Columbia University’s main campus. There, students joined them to protest what some are calling “Hurricane Columbia”, a reference to the struggles against gentrification and population removal in New Orleans. For over four and a half years, a grassroots Coalition to Preserve Community has been leading the charge against the university’s proposed bulldozing and development of 18 acres in Harlem for a new bio-technology / bio-medical research campus. This is a fight about profit, racism, local politicians and community power!
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My Neighborhood Police State
Submitted by mark on September 19, 2007 - 2:47pm.
I live in Crown Heights, which is a mostly West Indian and African American neighborhood in Brooklyn. I've been there for two years, and like most black neighborhoods in New York, the cops are pretty much a constant presence.
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