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Debased Language, Degraded Politics: Searching for Conservatism, Finding It Nowhere
https://againstthecurrent.org/debased-language-degraded-politics-searching-for-conservatism-finding-it-nowhere/
Published: April 28, 2025 19:08
“The problem of the 21st century is not only with conservatism. Over recent decades and especially in recent years, there is rampant confusion of all political spheres: left, center and right. But widespread loss of basic conservatism stands out. It…
The Other Catastrophe: Genocide and Famine in Sudan
https://againstthecurrent.org/the-other-catastrophe-genocide-and-famine-in-sudan/
Published: April 25, 2025 20:25
Map of the Civil War in Sudan, updated April 16, 2025. Pink controlled by Sudanese Armed Forces, green by Rapid Support Forces, yellow by Sudan People’s Liberation Movement–North (al-Hilu) and brown by Sudan Liberation Movement (al-Nur) Elijah Pepe, CC…
The Global Fascist Project: Crisis, Control, and the Struggle from Below
https://againstthecurrent.org/the-global-fascist-project-crisis-control-and-the-struggle-from-below/
Published: April 25, 2025 19:31
Hands Off demonstration in Fremont, California, Photo: Alex Chis The starting point for any analysis of the shocking conjuncture of events now rocking the world — trade wars, genocide, fascism — is the unprecedented crisis of global capitalism. There are…
Behind the Immigration Crisis
https://againstthecurrent.org/atc236/behind-the-immigration-crisis/
Published: April 24, 2025 22:13
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America and the Making of a Crisis By Jonathan Blitzer Penguin Press, 2024. 544 pages. $21 paperback. TYPICALLY MISSING IN the charges and counter-charges around the “border crisis” between the two…
A Setback for Auto Workers’ Solidarity
https://againstthecurrent.org/atc236/canadian-retirees-meet-with-unifor-president-before-their-last-contract-negotiations-raising-the-demand-for-increasing-pensions-why-not-develop-solidarity-across-borders-the-uaw-statement/
Published: April 10, 2025 04:05
Canadian retirees meet with UNIFOR president before their last contract negotiations, raising the demand for increased pensions. Why not develop solidarity across borders? THE UAW STATEMENT “In a Victory for Autoworkers, Auto Tariffs Mark the Beginning of…
Lessons of Abductions and Terror
https://againstthecurrent.org/lessons-of-abductions-and-terror/
Published: April 9, 2025 19:59
The resistance rising! Photo: Dan La Botz THE ABDUCTION OF Mahmoud Khalil — the Palestinian graduate student and green card holder seized March 8 at his Columbia University residence — is now multiplied by other high-profile detentions and deportation…
No Hope for Transitional Justice If Sectarianism Is the Doctrine of the New Syrian State
https://againstthecurrent.org/no-hope-for-transitional-justice-if-sectarianism-is-the-doctrine-of-the-new-syrian-state/
Published: April 9, 2025 18:35
A month after sectarian violence erupted on Syria’s coast, the Syrian state has yet to recognise the importance of transitional justice, says Joseph Daher. The euphoria that followed the fall of Assad’s regime in December 2024 has largely dissipated after…
Trump’s Trade War and Canadian Workers
https://againstthecurrent.org/trumps-trade-war-and-canadian-workers/
Published: April 4, 2025 20:37
THIS STATEMENT BY the Socialist Project (Canada) was published before Donald Trump’s April 2, 2025 announcement of global tariffs, precipitating a two-day plunge of more than 3500 points on the U.S. Dow-Jones stock market and threatening to trigger a world…
Plague-Pusher Politics
https://againstthecurrent.org/plague-pusher-politics/
Published: March 30, 2025 04:58
What are the longer-term implications of the attacks on vaccines? CC-BY-SA-4.0 AS SHOULD BE evident by now, the Trump administration has begun a full-scale attack on much of public health in the United States and globally. Some of this is ideological — for…
UAW Leadership Should Reverse Its Pro-Trump Statement
https://againstthecurrent.org/uaw-leadership-should-reverse-its-pro-trump-statement/
Published: March 21, 2025 18:27
Four hundred Mexican workers at VU Manufacturing voted for an independent union and ended up laid off and blacklisted by the U.S. company. Liga Sindical Obrera Mexicana WE ARE SPEAKING only for ourselves in this article. The UAW leadership should reverse…