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Against the Current (USA) sponsored by Solidarity with
the aim of promoting dialogue among the activists, organisers and
serious scholars of the left. "We promote the vision of socialism
from below, of a revolutionary, working-class, multinational and multiracial,
feminist and antibureaucratic socialist movement." Go to this
website for back copies, subscription details etc. Change for a Buck Change for a Buck is a series of audiocassettes of leading progressive thinkers, which as the name suggests, cost a dollar each inside the US. From the same people who do JusticeVision. See our News update for 19th January 2002 in the News Archive, or for more information email Democracyu@aol.com The Civic Media Center is a non-profit library and reading room of the non-corporate press. Go to http://www.civicmediacenter.org to see for yourself. Corp-Focus is a moderated listserve which distributes the weekly column "Focus on the Corporation," co-authored by Russell Mokhiber, editor of Corporate Crime Reporter, and Robert Weissman, editor of Multinational Monitor magazine. To subscribe to Corp-Focus, go to this website Or, you can send an e-mail message with "subscribe" in the subject line of the message. Focus on the Corporation scrutinises the multinational corporation - the most powerful institution of our time. Once a week, it reports and comments critically on corporate actions, plans, abuses and trends. Focus on the Corporation covers globalization and corporate power; the double standards which excuse corporations for behaviour (e.g.,causing injury, accepting welfare) widely considered criminal or shameful when done by individuals; trends in corporate economic blackmail, political influence and workplace organisation; industry-wide efforts to escape regulation, silence critics, employ new technologies or consolidate business among a few companies; specific, extreme examples of corporate abuses: destruction of communities, trampling of democracy, poisoning of air and water; and the corporatisation of our culture. Cuba Si is the official quarterly journal of the UK Cuba Solidarity Campaign. Latest issue contains articles on the Miami Five, five Cubans jailed in June for allegedly spying, despite the fact that the activities they were accused of related to right wing terror groups who have long targeted the island. Plus the usual wide range of articles on various aspects of life in Cuba, and on CSC's own campaigning activities, as well as the Cuban governments response to September 11. and a special section on Trade Unions for Cuba. Go to http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.uk for subscription details and more information. Daybreak is a newly-launched anti-authoritarian newspaper in the upper midwest of the United States. Its first issue (Fall, 2001) deals with America's "New War", Arab-American Internments, Civilian Casualties, bio-terrorism, anti-war info, anti-terrorism bill, local news, opinion, action, events, and more! Copies are available through the mail for 2 dollars. Daybreak is also looking for reliable distributors especially outside of the Twin Cities, its own region. Contibutions are welcome. Write to Daybreak Anarchist Collective, PO Box 14007, Minneapolis MN 55414, or email daybreak@disinfo.net , or visit their website Direct Action (UK) Uncompromisingly anti-capitalist quarterly carrying news, comment and notices of upcoming actions. "For a global community based on mutual respect and solidarity". See website The Democrat British monthly left wing Anti-EU magazine. Journal of the Campaign Against Euro Federalism(CAEF), founding member of The European Anti-Maastricht Alliance(TEAM) and affiliated to Campaign for an Independent Britain and Congress for Democracy. Also produces regular pamphlets on the single currency, Euro-imperialism and the drive to war. New publications available on African resource wars, the euro and the national question. All available from 57 Green Lane, Merseyside, CH45 8JQ email or see the website European Race Bulletin Published quarterly by the European Race Audit Project of the UK-based Institute of Race Relations (of Race and Class fame), each issue provides an in-depth look at a particular issue. Bulletin No 38, for example, published in the autumn of 2001, is on "Asylum seekers, welfare and the politics of deterrence". This includes both essays and a look at developments in various European countries, directly concerned both with the particular theme and with other aspects of racism. Go to http://www.irr.org.uk or write to info@irr.org.uk for more information. Green Left Weekly Australia's socialist newspaper provides news, information, opinion and debate from an environmental and left perspective. Committed to human and civil rights, global peace and environmental sustainability, democracy and equality. Launched in 1990 by the Democratic Socialist Party, the socialist youth group Resistance and other progressive activists to present the views excluded by the big business media, GLW is now Australia's leading source of local, national and international news, analysis, and discussion and debate to strengthen the anti-capitalist movements. Go to http://www.greenleft.org.au/ Historical Materialism is an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to exploring and developing the critical and explanatory potential of Marxist theory. The journal started as a project at the London School of Economics from 1995 to 1998. The advisory editorial board comprises many leading Marxists, including Robert Brenner, Maurice Godelier, Michael Lebowitz, Justin Rosenberg, Ellen Meiskins Wood and others. Marxism has manifested itself in the late 1990's from the pages of the Financial Times to new work by Frederic Jameson, Terry Eagleton and David Harvey. Unburdened by pre-1989 ideological baggage, Historical Materialism stands at the edge of a vibrant intellectual current, publishing a new generation of Marxist thinkers and scholars. Go to this website to subscribe Islip Unity Group Political Newsletter committed to Communist and Left Unity is the monthly of a group set up after the dissolution of the CPGB. Contains articles on British and international affairs. Write to midhurst14@aol.com for details of subscriptions etc. INK (UK) independent news collective which helps distribute and promote numerous left titles including many listed in this guide. Go to http://www.ink.uk.com for news of such INK members as Direct Action, Peace News, Statewatch, The Big Issue, Corporate Watch, Labour Research, New Left Review and many more. International Viewpoint Published in conjunction with the French-language Inprecor, IV, the monthly magazine of the Fourth International, provides comprehensive coverage of international affairs from a left oppositional standpoint. Visit the website , email or write to:IV, PO Box 112, Manchester M12 5DW, England for subscription details and other information. Iranian Workers' News monthly newsletter of the Solidarity Campaign with Iranian Workers. Available in pdf. format at http://www.iranian-workers-news.net Covers a side of Iranian social, economic and political life almost entirely ignored by the corporate media: the courageous and dynamic struggles of organised labour. The newsletter, set up to seek the support of international organisations, trades unions and other workers' organisations throughout the world for the struggles of the Iranian working class, is one of the best bulletins of its kind we have seen. Non-sectarian and well-written, it tells of a country where workers must strike not for better pay and conditions, nor even to hold on to what they have, but simply to get wages owed to them, to have the right to organise at all, to have any access to the means of survival. Write to sciw@iranian-workers-news.net to subscribe to the electronic newsletter. Liberation, monthly journal of the group of the same name, originally founded in 1954 as the Movement for Colonial Freedom. "Great advances have been made, but old empires have been replaced by new forms of imperialism. Transnational corporations now subjugate and exploit millions of people in the interests of profit." UK Subscription rates £12/unwaged £6, overseas rates add £5. Write to liberation@btinternet.com for more information. See website Links Journal for the post Cold War left; a journal that rejects the Stalinist distortion of the socialist project; a journal that takes into account ecological questions; a journal that is taking steps to unify and bring together the forces for socialism in the world today; a journal that aspires to unite Marxists from different political traditions because it discusses openly and constructively. Links seeks to promote the international exchange of information, experience of struggle, theoretical analysis and views of political strategy and tactics within the international left. The journal does not present a single line. It is pluralist, open and very much a discussion forum. Links develops and marks out the space for genuine socialism. It hopes to not only bring together active socialists from different countries and different continents, but to unite socialists coming from different traditions-the traditions of the pro-Moscow Communist parties, Trotskyist parties, Maoism, the left wing of national movements, left forces breaking with social democracy, and activists from social movements who have come to realise the need for a party. Go to http://www.dsp.org.au/links/ Labour Left Briefing (UK) is an independent voice and forum for socialist ideas in the Labour Party and trade unions. It has been steadfast in its opposition to the series of wars launched by the US and NATO in the last decade and campaigns against racism, the corporate and neoliberal agenda, the undermining of democracy in the Labour Party and trade unions, and on a host of other issues. Appears monthly. Go to website or write to briefing@gn.apc.org for subscription details and more information Lobster (UK) Quarterly concerned with covert operations, conspiracy research and the interface between politics and the secret state. Write to robin@lobster.karoo.co.uk or go to http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk for more information. Monthly Review is North America's best and longest-established Marxist monthly. Subscriptions begin at $29 (US) $37 (int.) Go to their website for more about the mag that, set up as the Cold War was dragging the US down into madness and close to fascism, survives to fight the new insanity evident since 9/11. Since Seattle, MR has devoted itself to publicising and aiding the burgeoning new movement against neoliberal globalisation. MR covers a wide range of international and US affairs from a challenging, vibrant, Marxist viewpoint. Never stops looking for chinks in the system's armour, never stops debating new socialist alternatives. Spectre's absolute favourite journal - subscribe and we're sure it will soon be yours, too. Multinational Monitor, a magazine edited by Robert Weissman, whose work appears elsewhere on this website, appears 10 times a year (monthly, with two double issues). Founded by Ralph Nader, it is the leading source of critical reporting on the activities of multinational corporations and the international globalising institutions -- the IMF, World Bank and WTO. For more information and details of how to subscribe, go to MM's excellent website for contact details for overseas rates. The Morning Star is the only daily newspaper in Britain which has maintained a consistent and principled line on the EU. Steadfastly opposed to the single currency and the EU constitution, Britain's daily paper of the left has provided a rallying point for all trade unionists and progressives who want to organise and fight against a bosses' Europe. Available from any good newsagent - if they won't supply it, let us know - it's only 60p a day for the best read in or out of Fleet Street. And it isn't funded by Eurocrats. Go to the website for sample stories, more about the paper's history and aims, and how to subscribe to the on-line version. Onward, anarchist newspaper carries news, opinion, theory, and strategy of today! Single issues just $2ppd! (Cheaper in bulk) Want to contribute, distribute, or subscribe...? Write us at info@onwardnewspaper.org PO BOX 2671 Gainesville, FL 32602-2671 USA. Go to http://www.onwardnewspaper.org to find out more. Peace News The international and independent antimilitarist magazine for nonviolent activists and campaigners. Published in print version and online, with special online news service and tools and resources section. Peace News has been published from Britain since 1936 and continues a lengthy tradition of action-reporting, discussion about nonviolence, and of sharing information and tactics from a wide range of perspectives. Go to the website for more information about the magazine and what it stands for, as well as how to subscribe Peace Matters "working for peace without violence", is the quarterly magazine of the Peace Pledge Union, the oldest non-sectarian pacifist organisation in Britain, and UK affiliate to the War Resisters' International. For more information and subscriptions, go to the website Resources for Radicals. Written and compiled by Brian Burch, a Toronto based writer with a lengthy history of political activism and community education work. Authors whose works are included range from Emma Goldman to Brian Martin to Starhawk to Leo Tolstoy to Elizabeth Gurley Flynn to Henry David Thoreau to Petra Kelly to Kurt Vonnegut to Ann Hansen. Publications listed ran the gamut from Ahimsa to Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed to The Catholic Worker to Earth First! Journal to Co-op America Quarterly to Waging Peace. The overall focus is on material related to effective non-violent protest and practical alternative social institutions. It is available from Toronto Action for Social Change. The price (including postage and handling) is: $12.00 Canada; US $13.00 U.S.; US$15.00 Rest of the World. Cheques should be made payable to Toronto Action for Social Change. Orders should be sent to: Toronto Action for Social Change P.O. Box 73620, 509 St. Clair Ave. West Toronto, Ontario M6C 1C0, Canade. More information from tasc@web.ca Rethinking Marxism: Founded in 1988, Rethinking Marxism is an interdisciplinary Marxist journal published in the US by the Association for Economic and Social Analysis (AESA) . Its aim is to "engage and sustain critical conversations about the tremendous challenges and exciting opportunities facing Marxism and the global Left." Sample material, details and subscription at website Shout! Monthly - a radical ejournal of international affairs and politics. Website Speed the Plough is the occasional newsletter of Trident Ploughshares, a campaign to disarm the UK Trident nuclear weapons system in a nonviolent, open, peaceful and fully accountable manner. Write to Trident Ploughshares at tp2000@gn.apc.org or go to the website The Spokesman (UK) was founded by Bertrand Russell, but you don't need to be a philosopher to read it. In its pages you will find a stimulating mix of opinion on politics, peace, and human rights issues. There is also an extensive reviews section You can get further information and a free issue by going to the website Statewatch (UK) covers the state and civil liberties in Europe including policing, immigration and asylum, secrecy, the law, racism, prisons, Northern Ireland, security and intelligence. Great coverage of the EU's stealthy assault on what's left of democracy. Six times a year. Go to the website for subscriptions and more information. Socialism and Democracy is produced 3 times a year (March, July, and November) by the U.S.-based Research Group on Socialism and Democracy. A theoretical journal which is nevertheless accessible and always informative, S & D is particularly useful for its discussions of developments in Latin America and the middle east, and essays on Marxist theory and socialist practice both historically and in the face of contemporary challenges. Some recent special issues: Race and Racism; Gender and Globalization; Hip Hop, Race, and Cultural Politics. The "member rate" for individual subscriptions is $30 per year. For information: info@sdonline.org or, for subscriptions in the UK, journal.orders@tandf.co.uk Or go to the S & D website or to the publisher's website Trade Union Review "The rank and file, non-aligned, trade union journal". Essential reading for trade union activists in the UK, Trade Union Review provides detailed coverage of developments in the labour movement, of industrial disputes and other union activities at a time when the mainstream press all but ignores them. Attacks "corruption…ineffective and quiescent practices by unions more interested in maintaining a living for their officers than defending the interests of their members." Dedicated to the development of "a movement much more capable of improving the lives and livelihoods of ordinary people". Write to TU Review, 2 Hartington Place, Carlisle CA1 1HL, England or mail tuworks@btinternet.com Subs are £10 per year (10 issues) and multiple copies can be ordered at a discount. No details of overseas prices given, so enquire first. Voices in the Wilderness has been campaigning since the mid-nineties in both the UK and the US against the two countries' policy towards Iraq. VitW began as a campaign against economic sanctions and military strikes and developed into an important part of the anti-war coalition. The campaign continues, highlighting the abuses of the illegal occupation: "Today, as the US/UK occupation of Iraq continues with no end in sight, solidarity with the Iraqi people is needed more than ever. As our small part in this Voices in the Wilderness will continue to provide information and to organise protests on Iraq-related issues and to collaborate with others on more general peace initiatives." Go to the website for more information about the campaign. |
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