Economic Crisis & Working Class Upsurge
Economic Crisis & Working Class Upsurge
The capitalist system is currently confronting its worst crisis since the '30s. And the U.S. working class, faced with a managerial offensive seeking to save capital at the expense of labor, is in crisis as well. It is in this context that Solidarity announces a forum sponsored by Against the Current magazine on "The Economic Crisis and Labor's Response: Prospects for the Nineties."
The speakers will be Robert Brenner, Professor of History at UCLA and editor of Against the Current; Howard Kimeldorf, Asst. Professor of Sociology at U-M and author of "Reds and Rackets"; Jane Slaughter, staffer at Labor Notes and co-author of "Choosing Sides: Unions and the Team Concept"; and Thomas Weisskopf, Professor of Economicsat U-M and co-author of "Beyond the Wasteland." The forum will be held Friday, March 10 at 4 pm in the Henderson Room, on the third floor of the Michigan League.
On Tuesday, March 28, Solidarity will continue its Discussion Series with a talk by Buzz Alexander, Professor of English at U-M, on the topic "Leftists in the Academy: Choices and Consequences." The talk will begin at 7:30 pm at Guild House, 802 Monroe.
Solidarity is an organization committed to building a non-sectarian socialist movement in the U.S. We are socialist activists who participate in the struggles for lesbian and gay rights. We firmly believe that any socialist movement worthy of the name must join in such struggles now, rather than perpetuate the illusion that they can either be separated from or take a back seat to the class struggle. In Ann Arbor, our members participate in FSACC, LASC, POWER, UCAR and Concerned Faculty.
We oppose the growing U.S. drive toward war, whether that be in the Middle East or Central America. We support the PLO in its struggle against Israeli oppression. We see the need for international solidarity among working people and the oppressed in a period of concessions, deindustrialization, unemployment and the growing debt crisis. We believe in a creative rethinking of socialism for the 90s in which an open environment and a variety of views is more important than presenting a monolithic face to the world or engaging in pretenses of being "the vanguard."
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