• Use the $46.5 billion budgeted for building and reinforcing the wall on the southern border along with installing surveillance. • Hire 10,000 more ICE agents and 8,500 Custom & Border Protection agents. Reassign government personnel to help ICE locate, detain and deport immigrants. • Use of Alien Enemies Act to avoid need for due… Continue reading Team Trump’s Immigration Protocols| Against the Current
SUZI WEISSMAN: TODAY we’re joined by Flor Melendrez of Clean Car Wash, a workers center in the LA area. She’s here to talk about how immigration raids are impacting the carwasheros, who work in the car wash industry. Flor Melendrez: Workers noticed surveillance happening near the car wash two or three days before the raid.… Continue reading ICE Terror Unleashed in Los Angeles| Against the Current
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Italian partisans fighting in Milan, April 1945. ON APRIL 29, 1945, Rossana Rossanda joined the massive crowds gathered on the Piazzale Loreto in Milan, Italy, where, more than 26 years earlier, Benito Mussolini’s Fascist movement began its wretched existence. Rossanda, soon to enter the Communist Party of Italy (PCI), now witnessed the incredible and ghastly… Continue reading Honoring Anti-Fascist Resistance| Against the Current
WITH FRESH ATTACKS on welfare programs in both the United States and Britain, passionate arguments have been made from various quarters of the left defending the state’s provision. Unquestionably welfare programs partly reflect historical hard-won struggles by working people and have constituted a valuable advance for the working class over the last century. But these… Continue reading From Welfare Toward A Socialist Future| Against the Current
THAT THE MIDDLE East and North Africa (MENA) region is beset by tensions, rivalries and conflicts is beyond dispute. MENA is arguably the most militarized and penetrated world-region, with high military spending (especially by Algeria, Israel, Jordan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, UAE), and a slew of U.S. bases across the region. Quite apart from the territorial… Continue reading What Future for the Middle East| Against the Current
Frantz Fanon: Combat Breathing By Nigel Gibson Hoboken, NJ: Polity Press, 2024, 356 pages, $24.95 paperback. IT IS OFTEN said that the history of a work of art, politics or philosophy is the history of its interpretation, and the same can be said of the reception of the authors who compose them. This is especially… Continue reading Frantz Fanon in the Present Movement| Against the Current
Chicago: May Day Defense of immigrant rights. (Sarah Jane Rhee) IN THE UNITED States’ post-Constitutional twilight zone of the second Trump presidency, interlocking conflicts are converging. Neither the domestic nor global orders are any longer “rules-based” in the ways that have been previously assumed. The consequences are unpredictable but likely to be explosive. Socialists of… Continue reading In Twilight-Zone USA| Against the Current
ICE invasion of Los Angles and mass arrests led to solidarity actions. (Promise Li) MOST AMERICANS SUPPORT the idea that immigrants have enriched the United States, but are under the assumption that there is an “orderly” immigration process. They tend to believe that it is unfair that some have supposedly jumped the mythical queue. The… Continue reading Trump’s Brutal Immigration Policies| 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
Refugees in Mariupol with many children. CC BY SA 4.0 INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’s DAY is June 1 in Ukraine, Russia, and 47 other countries. This Children’s Day, the Ukraine Solidarity Netw…| Against the Current
The July/August 2025 AGAINST THE CURRENT (#237) features: State of the Resistance—The Editors Deported? What’s in a Name?—Rachel Ida Buff AI: Useful Tool or Menace?—Peter Solenberger Trump…| Against the Current
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History By Ned Blackhawk Yale University Press, 2023, 616 pages, $22 paper.| Against the Current
29 January 2025: The return of displaced Palestinians from the south to the northern Gaza Strip. Photo: Jaber Jehad Badwan ON MAY 21 a brutal and indefensible targeted killing of two young Israeli …| Against the Current
Iran “supreme leader” Ali Khamenei, whose regime fatally miscalculated Israel’s and U.S. imperialism’s intentions. ONE OF THE most famous sayings about revolutions is attrib…| Against the Current
Israeli army attacking Tehran at dawn, June 13, 2025. Photo by Mehr News Agency, CC BY 4.0, ISRAEL’S UNPREDEDENTED ATTAC on Iran is a direct result of the impunity it has enjoyed while carryi…| Against the Current