Joanna Misnik, like many of the ’68 generation, was first radicalized by the U.S. war in Vietnam. IN 1995 THE Fourth International (FI), having survived the fall of the Soviet Union, renounced the claim of being the “revolutionary vanguard party” of the working class. This signaled not dissolution, but a strategic reorientation in response to… Continue reading Joanna Misnik, 1943-2025| Against the Current
The Trump administration fired Carla Hayden, the first African American and first woman librarian of Congress, by text message. AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE under fire from the Trump regime on all fronts. President Trump says the Black population is receiving unfair advantages over most whites, particularly young white men. The attack targets concepts of “wokism” (which… Continue reading Trump’s Reality for African Americans| Against the Current
Hands Off demonstration, Fremont, CA (Alex Chis) THE MURDER OF Charlie Kirk has done for the Trump 2.0 regime what the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 did for George W. Bush and company — with such disastrous consequences for the United States, Iraq, Afghanistan and the world. (See the statement by the editors of… Continue reading Regime Terror Spreading| Against the Current
Tom Alter Contact the Committee to Defend Tom Alter for more information and to get involved in this important defense work. On October 12 Suzi Weissman interviewed Professor Tom Alter, a tenured professor at Texas State University and author of Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth the Transplanted Roots of Farmer Labor Radicalism in Texas for KPFK’s… Continue reading An Interview with Tom Alter: History Is Now!| Against the Current
Trump’s official White House portrait. THE RISE TO power of Donald Trump and his minions has sanctified and energized a campaign to revive the kind of triumphalist, exceptionalist version of …| Against the Current
Javier Milei, president of Argentina (2024) IN SEPTEMBER 2025, after having presided over the country since December 2023, the neo-fascist Javier Milei suffered an electoral defeat in an important vote. The result was the election in the province of Buenos Aires. This election renewed 46 seats in the provincial Chamber of Deputies and 23 in… Continue reading Lifeline to Javier Milei’s Far-Right Government of Argentina| Against the Current
Poster from Republic of New Afrika. FOR NEARLY FIFTY years, the fugitive revolutionary Black nationalist Assata Shakur defied the monstrous system of racialized mass incarceration in the United States. Since the 1970s, more than seven million African Americans have been caged in the hellhole conditions of state and federal prisons. Nonetheless, Assata, likely framed for… Continue reading Assata Shakur (1947–2025)| Against the Current
What’s the future for New York City under Zorhan Mamdani’s win? ZOHRAN MAMDANI’s meteoric victory in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, and his pending general election success in November, sheds light on critical facets of the city’s and the broader U.S. political turmoil. Mamdani’s campaign speaks to the cost-of-living crisis that makes NYC… Continue reading The Zohran Mamdani Campaign: Solidarity with the Movement & Critical Notes on the Future| Against the Current
MORE THAN FIVE years ago, on January 28, 2020, then-U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled his peace plan for Palestine at a White House ceremony attended by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The plan was drafted by Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. During his election campaign, Trump had pledged to broker what he called the “Deal of… Continue reading The “Deal of the Millennium” After the “Deal of the Century”| Against the Current
THE STRUGGLE FOR socialism is not merely about a person or group fighting for power — it is a moral and human emancipatory project. The way one fights for socialism has a connection to the kind of world one wants to build. Socialism has an ethical dimension that should be up front — human solidarity,… Continue reading Political Assassinations & Socialist Ethics| Against the Current
SOLIDARITY, A SOCIALIST, feminist and and anti-racist organization — and sponsor of the journal AGAINST THE CURRENT — demands the reinstatement of Professor Thomas Alter at Texas State …| Against the Current
AGAINST THE CURRENT is marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the war in Vietnam, which concluded with the biggest defeat inflicted on U.S. imperialism. We are beginning by republishing Joel Ge…| Against the Current
Class, Race, and Marxism By David Roediger London: Verso, 2017, 198 pages, $26.95 hardback. TODAY’S ANT-RACIST LEFT is roiled by at least four absorbing controversies about racism and resista…| Against the Current
The Extreme Center: A Warning By Tariq Ali London and New York: Verso, 2015, 200 pages, $10.17 paper (40% off). A CHARISMATIC ACTIVIST, writer and speaker, British-Pakistani Marxist Tariq Ali stand…| Against the Current
IN JOHN SAYLES’ provocative film, Brother from Another Planet, one of its most humorous scenes concerns two white college students from Chicago who are visiting New York City. Unfamiliar with…| Against the Current
Tariq Ali at the #StopTrident rally at Trafalgar Square, 27th February 2016. Photo: Asia Society You Can’t Please All: Memoirs 1980-2024 By Tariq Ali London: Verso, 2024, 816 pages, $44.95, h…| Against the Current
LAST MONTH SAQI Books published Gilbert Achcar‘s new book The Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective. Labour Hub interviewed the author about the book and the politica…| Against the Current
