It is more loosely organized than most 'democratic centralist' groups, and it does not see itself as the vanguard of the working class or the nucleus of a vanguard. Solidarity describes itself as 'a democratic, revolutionary socialist, feminist, anti-racist organization.'It comes out of the Trotskyist tradition but has departed from many aspects of traditional Leninism and Trotskyism. Solidarity is an organizational descendant of International Socialists, a Trotskyist organization based on the proposition that the Soviet Union was not a 'degenerate workers' state' (as in orthodox Trotskyism) but rather 'bureaucratic collectivism', a new and especially repressive class society. Solidarity is a revolutionary socialist organization in the United States, associated with this, the journal Against the Current. Against the Current Against the Current Against the Current is the publication of Solidarity, a socialist organization based in Detroit.
