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Against the Current

Published bimonthly since 1986, AGAINST THE CURRENT is a Solidarity-sponsored analytical journal for the broad revolutionary left. The Sept./Oct. issue features Malik Miah on How Race Fuels the Rightist Agenda, Kit Adam Wainer on Obama's Race to the Top vs. Teacher Unions and Susan Spronk and Jeffery R. Webber interviewing Venezuelan activists Gonzalo Gómez, Stalin Pérez Borges and Luis Primo on the processes of deepening the revolution. Coverage of The Mexican Revolution at 100 continues, featuring an interview with Adolpho Gilly and articles by Dan La Botz, James D. Cockcroft, Heather Dasner Monk, Fred Rosen and Scott Campbell.

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International Viewpoint 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.

Put a Socialist in the Senate!

LaBotz, Buckeye Socialist, Senate 2010

Dan La Botz, a 64-year old Cincinnati school teacher, has filed petitions with the Ohio Secretary of State to become the candidate of the Socialist Party for the U.S. Senate. La Botz, who needed 500 signatures to get on the Socialist Party primary ballot, filed petitions with approximately 1,200 signatures on Thursday, Feb. 18. La Botz, a long time labor and social movement activist, is the candidate of the Socialist Party of Ohio which is the state organization of the Socialist Party USA.

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Videos from Solidarity's Educational Conference

November 14-15 in New York City, Solidarity held a successful conference featuring engaging talks on a number of topics. Click here to view these videos from "Their Crisis, Our Movements"

- Crisis of Capitalism, Challenge to the Movements (David McNally, New Socialist Group)
- The New Imperialism and The Global Fightback (Vivek Chibber, Christy Thornton, Jonah McCallister-Erickson)
- The State of Resistance in Communities & the Workplace (Normahiram Perez, Steve Downs, Penelope Duggan)
- Race and National Liberation Under Obama (Glen Ford, Lalit Clarkston)

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Barbara Zeluck Presente!

Our comrade Barbara Zeluck died June 5, 2010. She was a lifelong socialist and founding member of Solidarity. Barbara had a long and active life, unwavering in her support for radical social change and movements that she felt were dedicated to mobilizing the working class and raising class consciousness. She always believed that a better world was possible. Read More...

One Year of Obama and the Democrats’ Debacle

Last fall, in the discussion that produced our analysis of “Obama After 200 Days,” we said it would be premature to speak of a “crisis” for the administration. A year after the euphoric 2009 inauguration, it no longer looks premature. People who looked to Obama and the Democrats for leadership are bitterly disappointed, and a very peculiar brand of rightwing politics has seized the initiative.
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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.

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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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Howard Zinn, presente!

Submitted by Isaac on January 27, 2010 - 8:58pm

Howard Zinn died today at age 87. Through a half-century of activism, and many written works including the seminal People's History of the United States, he took the side of the marginalized and oppressed, lifting up the voices of -- and marching alongside -- those who fought injustice dished out by the heroes of official histories.

Howard Zinn

As the son of working-class immigrants and shipbuilder, Zinn championed labor organizing. A World War II veteran, his experiences in Europe led to a pacifist, anti-war stance and sympathy with the working class soldiers on the front line of rich men's wars. His time spent as an instructor at Spelman, a historically Black women's college in Atlanta, put him amidst the most militant wing of the early Civil Rights struggles in the South. In Boston in the 1960s he worked tirelessly with the surging movement against the genocidal American war in Vietnam - including a 1968 visit to Hanoi.

His career as a professor was consistently that of an activist, and as a historian he remained a public and engaged intellectual until the end. He was a fixture at anti-war and other progressive demonstrations and speaking events, and had just completed a project of putting a recent work, Voices of a People's History, into dramatized readings of social movement leaders and forgotten historical actors alike (the filmed version, The People Speak, should be out on DVD soon.) This focus on public, accessible history was typical: other recent works included comic book and children's adaptations.

Above all, he never hid the intention that his People's History would not be a dispassionate move its readers into action and protest. I was one of them. Thanks, Howard.

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You can read A People's History of the United States online.

"The People Speak" torrent download

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 27, 2010 - 9:19pm.

FYI "The People Speak" can be downloaded on the bittorrent tracker One Big Torrent: http://onebigtorrent.org/torrents/7499/Howard-Zinn--The-People-Speak-20091213-COMMERCIAL-FREE

Howard Zinn Is Dead

Submitted by RED DAVE (not verified) on January 28, 2010 - 7:21am.

A great loss to the cause of the People:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Zinn"

Zinn's Masterpiece:

People's History of the United States - wikipedia summary:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People%27s_History_of_the_United_States"]

People's History of the United States - Complete Online
Text

http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html"

Zinn on how he wanted to be remembered

Submitted by Isaac on January 28, 2010 - 5:22pm.
Q. What do you want to be remembered for? If I want to be remembered for anything, it's for introducing a different way of thinking about the world, about war, about human rights, about equality, for getting more and more people to think that way, and also for getting more people to realize that power, which rests so far in the hands of people with wealth and guns, ultimately rests on people themselves, and they can use it, and at certain points in history they have used it: Black people in the South used it; people in the women's movement used it; people in the anti-war movement used it; people in other countries who have overthrown tyrannies have used it. What I want to be remembered as is somebody who gave people a feeling of hope and power that they didn't have before.

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