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Against The Current

7012 Michigan Avenue

Detroit, MI  48210

Phone: (313) 841-0160

E-mail: atc[at]igc[dot]org

Web: www.solidarity-us.org/atc

ISSN: 0739-4853 Founded: 1986 Issues per year: 6 Distributors: Ubiquity, Armadillo Copy Price: $5 Subscription (Individuals): $25/yr Subscription (Libraries): $30/yr

Publisher’s Description: Against the Current features the writing of activists from movements for social and global justice, as well as politically engaged scholars of the left. The magazine's focus is coverage and dialogue on the movements -- including labor's rank and file, feminism, anti-racism, independent politics and antiwar activism in the United States and internationally. In the year 2005, ATC will mark the centennial of the turbulent year 1905, which witnessed the first Russian Revolution, a spontaneous general strike in Guyana, Upton Sinclair's pathbreaking novel The Jungle, and the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World among other events. The perspective of Against the Current is called "socialism from below" -- the vision of a new world without exploiters or exploited, based on the democratic power of working people, the alternative to the current order of "corporate globalization" or the bureaucratic tyrannies of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

Recent issues:

#156 Spotlight on the Occupy movement, with seventeen full pages of reporting and reflections of activists from New York to Oakland and Isla Vista. Also in this issue: a Black History feature on the legacy of C.L.R. James, two essays on Egypt’s unfinished revolution and the Arab Spring, reviews and more!