On December 15, the Atlanta branch of Solidarity hosted "Atlanta's Post-Election Reflection: What's Next?" Featured speakers, from Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, <

I became interested in history from the “bottom-up” when I was in high school.

[This is the third of a three-section remembrance of the youth radicalization of the 1960s.

[This article by Terry Conway and Thomas Eisler originally appeared in International Viewpoint.]

[This is the second of a three-section remembrance of the youth radicalization of the 1960s. Read part one here.]

As the Copenhagen talks draw to a close, several things remain clear.

On October 24^th, students, workers, faculty, and staff of California schools gathered in a statewide meeting to decide the future of their move

Four decades after the zenith of the youth radicalization of the 1960s, 1969, a veritable cornucopia of books penned by the now-aging veterans of that radicalization is pouring forth in full flood.

The Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME), continues its fight for its members’ jobs and for the union itself, but now, two months since President Felipe Calderón’s liquidation of the state-owned

California has recently seen a massive movement erupt in defense of public education -- but layoffs, fee hikes, cuts, and the re-segregation of public education are attacks taking place throughout the

People before Profits! In the United States, the motto can be seen on signs at protests or health care rallies, though it is a plea historically ignored by lawmakers in Washington.

If a lie is repeated enough times and in enough places, some will believe the lie is the truth. That’s the strategy the leaders of the Honduran coup are employing.

The rise, fall, and rise again of union reformers is a familiar story line in American labor.

[The following document was circulated in November by a number of Mexican labor organizations, social movements, and political organizations, sometimes in the form of a petition.

Tens of thousands of Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME) members, their families, other union members, peasant organizations, social movement activists and students engaged in a symbolic “taking

Darfur just may be the tip of the melting iceberg.

This past Thursday the IRS auctioned off a large land parcel owned by th

This was released as a leaflet by the Oakland branch of Solidarity.

Forty years ago, Chicago police murdered Fred Hampton as he slept in his bedroom with his girlfriend, Deborah Johnson, 8 months pregnant. He was only 21 years old.

Last weekend thousands gathered in Fort Benning to protest the School of the Americas.

The Eleventh Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance is being observed in about 150 localities around the world this week, commemorating more than 160 transgender or gender-different people who have

Building on more modest actions one month ago, California's statewide public university system has exploded in protest as thousands of students rally against outrageous tuition hikes.

There’s a glimmer – a very faint glimmer – of hope arising from recent developments in Palestine.

On November 18, 2009 defense attorney Lynne Stewart's conviction on five charges of conspiracy, providing and concealing material support to terrorist activity and making false statements was affir

If you were a member of the House of Representatives voting on the House health care reform bill, then Saturday night the 7th of November was your chance to show appreciation to your sponsors.

On Tuesday, Sept.

The judgments about the Obama administration one year on by people such as Katrina vanden Heuvel of The Nation (www.thenation.com

The battle over health care reform has engaged most of the progressive activist forces in the country, including unionized workers in the “labor for single payer” movement, with the left lining

Over the past month, there have been 132 people arrested (and hundreds more in supporting protests) in 20 cities around the country, all demanding a single-payer healthcare system, or Medicare for

We await the Obama administration’s decision to follow one escalation in Afghanistan with another.

“Rethink Afghanistan” has been widely toured by peace activists in the English-speaking world around the anniversary of the 2001 inv

It seems doubly ironic that the Nobel Peace Prize Committee has given its 2009 award to Barack Obama -- just a few months after Arizona State University declined to award him the customary, symboli

The October 5, 2009 issue of Time magazine has a 10-page Special Report on Detroit, titled “Notown.” But it’s the same old story--blaming the workers for wanting to better their lives and spe

I drove from Tennessee to Pittsburgh for the G-20 events with a group of seven folks from Knoxville and Murfreesboro, including five Solidarity members (myself and Karen and Leslie P.

Open Letter to the Movement from
CT Students Against the War

Keep Jeff Bartos Free! Support the IVAW! Defend Free Speech!

Keep checking the Solidarity website in the coming days for reports and analysis of the G-20 protests, as well as news regarding any next steps

"Hey, Red Dog: Bored with Grandmothers?" Those words, scribbled with marker on a makeshift sign, lingered above a crowd mostly confused by their meaning.

This was originally published in Labor Notes magazine.

While most are busy analyzing the healthcare speech delivered to Congress days ago—a final push to promote the public option reform and put to rest challenges from the left and right—this piece

Here's a video of Nancy Fraser, who teaches at New York's New School. She's placing 2nd wave feminism within the larger political context of its historical moment.

“You know why we’re not going to quit? Because we’re one, we’re one unit. We’re tired of being beaten; we’re tired of being oppressed.” --Attica inmate, 1971

What principle should guide our thinking as we approach the health care debate?

This morning, I woke up to several friends’ Facebook statuses or posted links telling me that Van Jones, Obama’s Green Jobs “czar” (I need to make an aside here, to say how thoroughly I det

Since the announcement several months ago that the G20 was coming to Pittsburgh, local activists have been busy organizing local opposition to not only the policies of the G20, but the very existen

The August 21, 2009 news that the U.S.

The US Left has a few different tasks in regards to situations of national political importance; among them are 1) putting out our politics about the situation, including a critique of the current

Anyone who’s been to a supermarket within the past couple of years is undoubtedly familiar with the horrible phenomenon of “self-checkout” machines.

In my years living in Georgia I’ve only lived in the 4th district, and attended town halls thrown by both Cynthia Mckinney and Hank Johnson.

How should the left relate to Obama? A response to Linda Burnham
Charlie Post*

In these days of incessant scare mongering around 'the obesity epidemic', I have been wanting to write about how I experience fat activism.

The June 28 issue of the Sunday New York Times magazine had a long article, “GM, Detroit and the Fall of the Black Middle Class.” The article recounted the story of an African-American

The June 24th New York Times reported that, in yet another effort to apply a “market based philosophy” to the problems of the poor, NYC's Bloomberg administration would seek to decrease funding

Most of the labor news we hear about these days involves rank-and-file struggles with union bureaucrats or with business management, and sometimes both at the same time.

By Cyril Mychalejko
Philly IMC

The cold-blooded murder of Kansas abortion doctor George Tiller on May 31st sent shockwaves across the United States.

On June 8, Reverend Edward Pinkney’s case was brought before the Third District Court of Appeals in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Tim Holloway, who has represented Rev.

When Atlanta Housing Authority bulldozers ripped into Bowen Homes in early July, they destroyed more than the 950 units of public housing on the city’s west side.

This past weekend, I flew to Sacramento for an interview with the Argentine Discovery Channel. They're doing a documentary on César Chávez, about whom I wrote a biography.