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From the beginning, Solidarity was an avowedly pluralist organization that included traditional Trotskyists, left-wing Shachtmanites, and Luxemburgists. Founded on the basis of far-left regrouping, Solidarity sought to unite with other groups and create a large revolutionary-socialist and feminist party. Calling for a mass Labor Party, Solidarity also had substantial impact in the trade union movement, especially in Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU). It has also had great success in circulating thousands of copies of its journal, Against the Current.
During the 1990s, Solidarity has had two organizations merge with it—the Forth Internationalist Tendency (a group expelled from the SWP) in September 1992 and Activists for Independent Socialist Politics (a Socialist Action split that had previously worked in Committees of Correspondence). It has also initiated internal fractions that work inside the Labor Party and the Green Party.
In 2000, Solidarity endorsed both the Green Party's Ralph Nader and the Socialist Party's David McReynolds for President. Recently, discussions of "Left Refoundation" have also been initiated between Solidarity and groups such as Left Turn, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, and Detroit's Trotskyist League. Further, many members of the organization are also interested in stronger relations (if not a merger) with the Socialist Party USA.