Published bimonthly since 1986, Against the Current is a Solidarity sponsored analytical journal for the broad revolutionary left. The September/October ATC continues its coverage of '68 with articles by Gerd-Rainer Horn and Michael Lowy plus an interview with Dr. Gwen Patton, who joined SNCC while at Tuskegee University in the early '60s. The issue also features Peter Rachleff on the Postville ICE raids, Terry Eagleton on "The God Question," and Au Loong Yu on "The New Chinese Nationalism." Dorothy Pinkney tells the story of her husband's imprisonment for quoting Deuteronomy 28:15.
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- Update on Troy Davis and a letter from Troy
by Isaac posted on 09/30/08
- Some Talking Points on the Financial Crisis
by Kate G posted on 09/30/08
- Labor Goes to Wall Street
by subcomandante micah posted on 09/30/08
- Capitalist Absurdity of the Week #2 - Well, of course, the meltdown, "regulation" etc.
by JohnM posted on 09/29/08
- Thinking about the antiwar movement
by Dianne posted on 09/25/08
- Troy Davis: "I'll be 40 my next birthday"
by Isaac posted on 09/23/08
- Troy Davis is innocent.
by Isaac posted on 09/23/08
- Party Like Its 1929: Understanding the Crisis on Wall Street
by Kate G posted on 09/21/08
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- Please contribute to this list!byIsaaconSome Talking Points on the Financial Crisis
- Troy DavisbyRosie (not verified)onUpdate on Troy Davis and a letter from Troy
- a couple more ideasbyIsaaconCapitalist Absurdity of the Week #2 - Well, of course, the meltdown, "regulation" etc.
A Brief To-Do List for the Next President's First Day...
New from Solidarity! This brief, four-page leaflet asks what a true progressive agenda for the next president might look like. Inside, a brief overview of this historic election cycle, and our endorsement of Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente's campaign with the Green Party.
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!Bill Banta 1941-2008
Bill Banta, a member of the Chicago branch and founding member of Solidarity, died of pancreatic cancer in a Chicago hospice on August 20th. He was 67. Bill was a revolutionary socialist his entire adult life.
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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Working Class
Indian Guest Workers organizing in Mississippi shipyards
Submitted by redstar504 on March 10, 2008 - 2:18pm.
Indian shipyard workers accuse their employer of human trafficking and forced labor; Guest Worker organizing continues in Mississippi and Louisiana
by Robert Caldwell & Damien Ramos
by Robert Caldwell & Damien Ramos
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"Two Buck Huck" and Class in the Republican Presidential Race
Submitted by John B. Cannon on February 19, 2008 - 3:52pm.
Mike Huckabee is not going to be the Republican presidential nominee. Though he’s still in the race, Republican insiders have started endorsing John McCain by the droves. This includes many Republican leaders who don’t like McCain much (criticizing his “liberal” stances on immigration, tax cuts, and campaign finance), and some who have a lot of affinities with Huckabee’s base, such as Oliver North. Pundits who have been very critical of McCain, such as Rush Limbaugh, have been asked to tone it down in the name of party unity.
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Thoughts on Solidarity's Socialist Feminist Retreat -- from Harmony Goldberg
Submitted by Chloe on January 31, 2008 - 11:49pm.
From Jan. 11 through Jan. 13 Solidarity held a socialist feminist retreat that brought together a multi-generational group of 60 activists to discuss work, gender and heteronormativity. There were lots of great discussions, both organized and informal.
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South Africa Journal: SANPAD Conference
Submitted by Kate G on January 9, 2008 - 3:27pm.
Last summer, I traveled to South Africa to do some academic research related to health care. To keep myself busy and record my experience, I kept up a private blog for family and friends. Now that Solidarity has its own weblog(!), I'm sharing some of these old posts. I intend to follow up with some more current analysis on South Africa and the themes my trip got me thinking about. This post, is a description of my experience at the SANPAD conference in Durban on June 26th-30th, 2007.
For the last two days, I’ve been attending the SANPAD poverty conference here in Durban. It’s an interesting collection of socialist and other radical intellectuals and more traditional NGO and government types. The first day of the conference was interrupted by protests of dozens of ‘poors’ demanding to be able to confront the deputy mayor, one of the conference’s opening speakers over issues of 1) closure of the Durban port to individual fisherman, 2)police harassment of street vendors 3) sanitation, electricity and water in the informal settlements.
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South Africa Journal: We are the Poors! Book Review
Submitted by Kate G on January 7, 2008 - 2:54pm.
Last summer, I traveled to South Africa to do some academic research related to health care. To keep myself busy and record my experience, I kept up a private blog for family and friends. Now that Solidarity has its own weblog(!), I'm sharing some of these old posts. I intend to follow up with some more current analysis on South Africa and the themes my trip got me thinking about. This first post is a book review...
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As Pop Culture Leans Left, Does it Really Matter?
Submitted by mark on December 20, 2007 - 6:26pm.
Jaime Paglia (creator of Eureka), Rob Kutner (writer for The Daily Show), and Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer) at the Writers Guild of America Rally in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass., on Friday, December 14th, 2007. Photo from Brad Searles
Last Friday there was a rally by striking writers in Boston. Joss Whedon, the Creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was one of the big names at the event. A friend of mine asked me if I had ever seen the episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer where Buffy gets pulled into a demonic sweatshop. Basically it goes like this -- runaway kids are kidnapped from Skid Row, dragged into this netherworld sweatshop, worked until they are nearly-dead, and then spit back onto the streets of Los Angeles. Ever Buffy, she busts the place up and frees all the captives. My friend mentioned it because he thought it was a great example of the left presence in pop culture, since in a key scene Buffy uses a hammer and sickle to kick the demon guards asses, striking a bad-ass Stakonovite pose in the middle of the fight sequence for good measure.
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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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