2023 Solidarity National Convention Dossier

Posted October 26, 2023

As the article Solidarity Convenes National Convention reported, Solidarity convened its National Convention online during the weekend of August 18-20, 2023. The convention formally adopted two resolutions:

The Policing System and Its Replacement

On Anti-imperialism and International Solidarity: From Ukraine to Palestine and Beyond.

Beyond the formal resolutions, the Convention and the pre-convention discussion took up three political questions with orientation pieces, comments, and reports: 1) U.S. politics, 2) Labor, and 3) Imperialism. This article lists and links the some of the main contributions.

U.S. politics

Desperate Journeys. Sick System! by the Against the Current Editors

“Noise as Usual” — Or Crisis Now? by the Against the Current Editors

Independent Political Action Today: An Orientation by David Finkel & Dianne Feeley

Independent Political Action Today: A Response by Peter Solenberger

Email Exchange on Independent Political Action #1 by David Finkel

Email Exchange on Independent Political Action #2 by Peter Solenberger

Labor

Labor Discussion Document by Dianne Feeley & Traven Leyshon

The UPS Contract in Context by Barry Eidlin

Why the Rush to Settle? by Kim Moody

Email Exchange on the Teamster-UPS agreement #1 by Dianne Feeley

Email Exchange on the Teamster-UPS agreement #2 by Dan La Botz

Email Exchange on the Teamster-UPS agreement #3 by Peter Solenberger

Email Exchange on the Teamster-UPS agreement #4 by Peter Solenberger

Email Exchange on the Teamster-UPS agreement #5 by Steve Downs

Email Exchange on the Teamster-UPS agreement #6 by Ron Lare

Imperialism

Entangled Imperialisms: Paths for Socialist Internationalism Today by Promise Li

Disentangling Imperialisms by Peter Solenberger

Some thoughts on Lenin’s Imperialism: the highest stage of capitalism and twenty-first century imperialism by Kay Mann

Is multipolarity the central feature of the international situation today? by Kay Mann

Some comments on imperialism by AF (NYC)