Solidarity: The Joy, Maine Paper Strike

On Tuesday June 5, Solidarity will sponsor a video and discussion on the Joy, Maine paper strike, during which a small but courageous union local took on International Paper, a huge international conglomerate. Following the 30-minute video on the strike itself, Frank Thompson, a member of the Union of Radical Political Economics and a professor in the U-M Economics Department, will speak about the video and the strike. The event gets under way at 7:30 pm and is free.

Solidarity is an organization committed to building a non-sectarian and radically democratic socialist movement in the United States. We are socialist activists who place a high priority on participating in an open and constructive manner in the struggles against racism and sexism, as well as the struggles for lesbian and gay rights and national liberation. In Ann Arbor, our members participate in the Latin America Solidarity Committee, the Feminist Women's Union, the United Coalition Against Racism, the Palestine Solidarity Committee, the Free Southern Africa Coordinating Committee, and Concerned Faculty. 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.

We oppose the growing U.S. drive toward war, whether that be in the Middle East or Central America. We support the PLO and the FMLN in their struggles against Israeli and U.S. 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."

Solidarity, 4104 Michigan Union, Ann Arbor, Ml 48109; 665-2709.