Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by FEELEY Dianne
Presentation given at a panel at the first United States Social Forum, Atlanta, June 2007. See from the same issue of ATC: The 1st United States Social Forum: A Festival of Radical Energy.
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SOCIALISTS IDENTIFY THE working class as a potentially powerful agent of (…)
, by TRIBICH Chloe
Presentation given at a panel at the first United States Social Forum, Atlanta, June 2007. See from the same issue of ATC: The 1st United States Social Forum: A Festival of Radical Energy.
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AT THE TIME I joined Solidarity about a year and a half ago, I had been (…)
, by HOROWITZ Gus
The following is a talk presented by Gus Horowitz to a Conference on the Legacy of Leon Trotsky and U.S. Trotskyism, held at Fordham University in New York City July 25-27, 2008.
This talk was part of a panel discussing “Lessons of the SWP Experience: 1960 - 1980.” The three panelists each had (…)
, by PRINS Nomi
DESPITE RECENT CNBC and MSNBC media hosts suggesting we may be at the ‘bottom’ of the housing market crisis, and Market Watch June 3rd commentary headlines like “Housing market may turn more quickly than you expect,” statistics continue to say otherwise, in sobering fashion.
The first quarter (…)
, by GINDIN Sam, PANITCH Leo
It is time to take stock. The centrality of the American economy to the capitalist world – which now literally does encompass the whole world – has spread the financial crisis that began in the U.S. housing market around the globe. And the emerging economic recession triggered in the U.S. by (…)
, by RASMUS Jack
IN EARLY APRIL 2008 the general consensus was that the U.S. economy had clearly fallen into recession. A long list of key economic indicators from November 2007 through March 2008 were all flashing red — from retail sales, job loss, business and consumer confidence and spending to industrial (…)
, by McCARTHY Michael A.
WHEN BARACK OBAMA raised the specter of race in a March 18 speech that went far beyond what one would expect from the Democratic Party, some of us on the left were hopeful. Since the 1970s, race-speech in presidential campaigns has been increasingly buried in coded language like, “welfare moms,” (…)
, by ACHCAR Gilbert, UDRY Charles-André
THE DISASTER that marks the end of the Republican administration of George W. Bush reinvigorates the discussion of the status of the United States, whether it is a “hyper?power” or in decline. Can you provide perspective on this debate?
THE CONCEPT of “hyperpower,” attributed to Hubert (…)
, by MIAH Malik
NOW THAT ILLINOIS Senator Barack Obama has become the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, what does it say about U.S. civil society? What stance should progressives and socialists take?
When Obama crossed that 2118-delegate threshold with the final primaries in Montana and South (…)
, by McKINNEY Cynthia
Statement by Cynthia McKinney, Power to the People Candidate for U.S. President, on the nomination of Barack Obama as the Democratic Party’s Presidential Candidate in 2008 (issued June 9, 2008).
On Saturday, June 7, 2008, Hillary Clinton announced that her 2008 presidential bid is over, (…)
, by SHERMAN Steven
Review of Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Fernando Gapasin, Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and A New Path toward Social Justice., University of California Press.
Provoked by the continuing crisis of organized labor after the departure of the Change to Win coalition of unions from (…)
, by Solidarity (USA)
Motion from Solidarity National Committee (Passed 5/17/08)
Solidarity endorses the Cynthia McKinney campaign in the Green Party as the most viable option for an independent political alternative in the 2008 presidential election. We make this choice in the context of the following (…)
, by Against the Current
YOU DIDN’T READ it here first: The Democratic Party is on the edge of sacrificing its 2008 presidential campaign before it officially starts. This kind of political suicide requires remarkable skill in the art of self-destruction, considering the current Republican administration’s legacy — the (…)
, by Against the Current, TAX Meredith
Against the Current: Which events of 1968 were you involved in? How did that event/those events affect you personally and politically at the time?
Meredith Tax: Though I was inspired by the Civil Rights movement, I did not get involved in the left until I was a grad student in London, studying (…)
, by FERGUSSON Ann
THE ONE CLEAR memory I have of 1968 (as opposed to all those other antiwar and pro-civil rights struggles in which I was engaged in the 1960s and ‘70s) is that I was a member of a faculty ad-hoc group, mostly from UMass Amherst (but there was also someone who taught at Amherst college and his (…)
The following is excerpted from the author’s essay “It’s Never Ever Boring! Triple Jeopardy from the Korean Side” in Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment (UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 2006). The author employs the term “Bi-“ with the explicit meaning of her multiple (…)
, by THOMPSON Wendy
I BECAME A political activist at the age of 12, when I marched for open housing in Evanston, Illinois. We lived next to the Black community in Evanston; African-American students made up 40% of my grade school. At the local YWCA girls club my sister and I were the only whites. The young Black (…)
, by DAWSON Kipp
Against the Current: Which events of 1968 were you involved in? How did that event/those events affect you personally and politically at the time?
Kipp Dawson: I was living in New York City, working on staff as a national coordinator of the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
During the 40th anniversary of the turbulent year 1968 — some highlights of which we discussed in the editorial statement of our previous issue (ATC 133, March-April 2008 ) — we are looking back at how its events shaped the consciousness of a generation of activists.
The ways in which 1968 (…)
, by JONES Brian
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis 40 years ago in the midst of a struggle that he saw as part of the next stage for the civil rights movement—supporting a strike of African American sanitation workers. Here, Brian Jones reviews an excellent new book, Michael Honey’s Going Down (…)
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