Solidarity Test

Pamphlets from Solidarity

Manifesto for an ecosocialist revolution outlines the why and how to break with capitalist growth. Adopted by the Fourth International, it moves from an analysis of capitalism to developing a program that – through self-organization – can break with commodification and productivism and halt the destruction of the planet on which we depend on for our survival.

Socialism, What It Is, Why We Need It outline capitalism‘s exploitation of both workers and the environment and sketches an alternative.

THE “SOCIALISM-FROM-BELOW” tradition views the working class as the central agent of overthrowing a system based on the market and the exploitation, alienation and unequal society it perpetuates.

Steve Downs’ writings, first in Hell on Wheels (2008) and in Socialist Strategies in Unions, a working paper (2022), outline how a variety of socialists active in the NYC transit system over two decades worked to build a rank-and-file caucus with a class struggle perspective. Unable to resolve how to be accountable once members won office, their project ultimately failed. The pamphlet and working paper offer rich lessons for today’s socialists.

The POUM: Republic, Revolution and Counterrevolution recounts the story of the largest workers’ party in Barcelona on the eve of the Spanish Civil War. This introductory book outlines the POUM’s origin and political ideas as well as its role in the revolution. Its author, Andy Durgan, has written half a dozen histories of the Spanish Civil War and was historical advisor on Ken Loach’s 1995 award-winning film, Land and Freedom.

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