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Solidarity and the 2024 Election
Posted November 1, 2024
IN THE 2024 U.S. election, Solidarity is not adopting a formal position on the presidential contest. There are various viewpoints in our organization, as there are throughout the socialist and progressive U.S. left. AGAINST THE CURRENT published several opinion articles covering a range of positions:
* WHY SOCIALISTS SHOULD DEFEAT TRUMP, BY DAN LA BOTZ
Why Socialists Must Defeat Trump – Against the Current ( https://againstthecurrent.org/atc232/why-socialists-must-defeat-trump/ )
* SOCIALIST SUPPORT…
The Path to Victory & the Tasks of the Ukrainian Left
Sotsialnyi Rukh
Posted October 31, 2024
ONE OF THE key decisions of the Social Movement (Sotsialnyi Rukh) conference, which took place in Kyiv on October 5-6, 2024, was the adoption of the resolution, “The path to victory and the tasks of the Ukrainian left.” Below is the text of the resolution:…
Authoritarianism Grows in El Salvador
Dianne Feeley
Posted October 27, 2024
Although the Constitution of El Salvador prohibits consecutive presidential terms, Nayib Bukele was inaugurated for a second term on June 1, 2024.
Given the opposition that has emerged to challenge his second term, police arrested leaders of the National Alliance for a Peaceful El Salvador on May 30 and 31. The Alliance is a broad coalition that emerged to defend democracy in the face of Bukele’s consolidation of power. Of the eight arrested, two were historic FMLN leaders – the coordinator of…
Boeing Workers Resoundingly Reject New Contract
Malik Miah
Posted October 26, 2024
BOEING’s LARGEST UNION, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), rejected a tentative labor contract on October 13 by a wide margin, extending their powerful strike. The majority “No” vote extends a nearly six-week long strike at facilities where the company makes its best-selling commercial plane.
Given the November 5 presidential election, this is a setback for the Biden administration, which sent….
Remarks at the Boris Kagarlitsky Conference, October 8, 2024
Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Posted October 19, 2024
Free Boris Kagarlitsky and all anti-war political prisoners in the Russian Federation!
GREETINGS AND MY profound thanks for the honor of participating in and addressing today’s conference, celebrating the work of comrade Boris Kagarlitsky and acting in solidarity with the comrade in his fight for freedom. A fight, I should say, not only for his own freedom, but a fight for freedom against the forces of authoritarianism and 21st century fascism.
In twenty minutes, it is impossible to address all…
Justice Not Evictions
John Zettner
Posted October 15, 2024
We Live Here
Detroit Eviction Defense and the Battle for Housing Justice
by Jeffrey Wilson and Bambi Kramer
Seven Stories Press, 2024, 238 pages, $16.95 paperback; ebook $10.
WILSON AND KRAMER’s graphic story highlights the victorious struggles of several homeowners, providing a glimpse into the economic crisis in Detroit and its resistance by the community. The tsunami came to the city earler than the country’s 2008 meltdown and stayed longer.
The group of activists…
A Letter from the Editors: Election and Widening War
The Editors
Posted October 10, 2024
WITH WAR AND genocide spreading from Palestine to Lebanon and Iran, with southern states inundated by the biggest climate-change flood disaster in U.S. history, and people’s general insecurity about their own and the country’s future, the United States lurches toward what’s called “the most consequential election in our lifetime” that may in the end resolve little or nothing….
Harris, Trump, or Neither? Arab & Muslim Voters’ Anger Grows
Malik Miah
Posted October 10, 2024
AMONG THE MOST significant political developments in the 2024 presidential election is that Arab, Palestinian and Muslim communities are rejecting the party of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for their support of genocide in Gaza, Palestine, and Lebanon….
Scholars to Address Conference Honoring Russian Dissident Boris Kagarlitsky
Posted October 3, 2024
Free Boris Kagarlitsky and all Russian anti-war political prisoners!
October 1, 2024
Scholars from across the globe will gather for an online conference on October 8 in honor of Russian sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky, who is serving a five-year sentence in a Russian penal colony on the fabricated charge of “justifying terrorism.”…
Marx Redux
Scott McLemee
Posted September 30, 2024
Scott McLemee interviews Paul Reitter, translator of a new English edition of Marx’s Capital.
IN EARLY 1845, a young and precariously employed holder of a Ph.D. in philosophy named Karl Marx signed a contract with a German publisher for a book, in two volumes, on political economy. He had already filled notebooks with extracts from his studies in the field, and at the time likely felt like he was already reasonably far along on the project. But his publisher canceled the contract two…
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Reading group: Race, gender, and the fight against fascism
September 26 to December 19, 2024
Against the Current
- Election and Widening War—The Editors
- A Century of Surrealism—Alexander Billet
- Arab & Muslim Voters’ Anger Grows—Malik Miah
- The 2024 British Elections—Kim Moody
- The UAW & Southern Organizing—Joseph van der Naald & Michael Goldfield
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