Author: Mike

  • Organizing for Socialism and Freedom in Brazil: an interview with PSOL activist Rodrigo Santaella

    Recently, we interviewed Rodrigo Santaella, a member of the revolutionary socialist organization Enlace and an activist in the Brazilian Socialism and Freedom Party (PSOL). We met him at the Fourth International’s Ecosocialism School in Amsterdam last month. This annual, three-week school serves as an intensive Marxist political education for FI members and allies. Readings and…

  • Stop a New Israeli Massacre in Gaza: Boycott Israel Now!

    On November 8, Israel carried out an attack on civilians in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip, shooting 13-year-old Ahmad Abu Daqqa while he played football with friends. By November 14, Israel had intensified its attacks on Gaza and begun to implement an intensive plan of aggression that at the time of writing has killed…

  • A BDS Movement That Works

    This article originally appeared in the November/December 2012 issue of Against the Current. IN 2005, 173 Palestinian civil society organizations and 71 members of parliament, political parties, and unions in Jordan united to issue a powerful nongovernmental call for global nonviolent resistance to occupation through acts of boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel.(1) They…

  • The Election and What’s Ahead

    WHAT WAS THE 2012 election about – and what did it ultimately show? Many fundamental issues were never even raised – climate change and environmental catastrophe, poverty and inequality, to name a few. On issues that were debated, like the economy and the deficit and the endless and endless chatter about “middle class jobs,” the…

  • Call to Join in the International Days of Solidarity Against Political Repression in Russia

    An appeal from the Russian leftists to their comrades in the struggle: Today we, the representatives of Russian leftist organizations, turn to our comrades all over the world with an appeal for solidarity. This call and your response to it are very important to us. Right now we are facing not just another instance of…

  • Statement on Hurricane Sandy and the Climate Crisis

    The superstorm was a catastrophe waiting to happen in the era of global warming. Rather than an ordinary late-season hurricane, Sandy became a monster fuelled by the heated waters of the Atlantic. It smashed through the Caribbean, causing massive damage and dozens of deaths both in Cuba (which is generally well-prepared for such disasters) and…

  • VIDEO: Jill Stein, Green Party Presidential Candidate, Speaking in Tennessee

    The Middle Tennessee branch of Solidarity recently sponsored a presentation by Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate for President. She spoke at Middle Tennessee State University. Stein and her running mate, Cheri Honkala, are running on a “Green New Deal” platform, which calls for a federal work program to address the on-going jobs crisis and…

  • Initial Observations on the Recovery Effort in NYC

    Here is the first of several dispatches from activists in New York, describing the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy as well as the political issues around aid and recovery. As I begin writing this on November 2, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is speaking in Staten Island. She is rattling off statistics on how much water…

  • VIDEO: Charlie Post on “The Rise of the Right” and “The American Road to Capitalism”

    On September 25th & 26th, Middle Tennessee Solidarity sponsored two events featuring Charlie Post, author of the recently published, The American Road to Capitalism. The first presentation focuses on the resurgence of the far-right, particularly in the United States. The second talk addresses many of the themes in Charlie’s book. Charles Post, Ph.D., is a…

  • Statement from OKDE in Greece: “Organize – Occupy – Towards an Unlimited General Strike!”

    Solidarity received the following statement from comrades of OKDE, the Greek section of the Fourth International. This flyer was distributed on October 9, the day of Angela Merkel’s visit to Athens. After 6 months of uproar against the government of the banker Papadimos, and following two consecutive elections in which the memoranda policies were spectacularly…