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Five Years Since George Floyd’s Murder

Malik Miah

Posted June 2, 2025

GEORGE FLOYD WAS murdered on May 25, 2020 when a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck for 9-1/2 minutes while Floyd was handcuffed, pleading that he couldn’t breathe….

Unnecessary Deaths

Against the Current Editorial Board

Posted June 2, 2025

ON MAY 21 a brutal and indefensible targeted killing of two young Israeli Embassy workers, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, was committed at the Jewish Museum in Washington, DC.

In grappling with the issues arising from this murder, it’s with some qualms that the editors of Against the Current are devoting an amount of editorial space to this event while Israel’s U.S.-abetted mass slaughter and starvation of Palestinians, in progress before and after, continues without a pause…….

Swedish Dockworkers’ Union Leader Sacked for Gaza Solidarity Action

Arthur Neslen

Posted May 29, 2025

Erik Helgeson asks whose “national security” is Swedish law really protecting?

SECURITY IS A funny elixir. The more of it that you have, the less there is for someone else… or that’s the conventional wisdom anyway. Erik Helgeson’s experience, however, proves otherwise.

Erik, 42, is the vice-chair of the Swedish Dockworkers’ Union and he cared deeply for the security of his members — and also for the safety of Gazan civilians, some of whom have been…

South African Union Responds to White House Debacle

Posted May 22, 2025

The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa (GIWUSA), a leftwing voice in the South African labor movement, posted the statement below following the May 21 White House meeting of Donald Trump and president Cyril Ramaphosa. Trump’s sickening racism was on full display as he pressed the mythology of the “white genoicide” of Afrikaner farmers. On this occasion Trump even exceeded his everyday spectacle, presumably prompted by Elon Musk who’s seeking to extort favorable concessions….…

Teamsters Against Trump, 2024

Steve Early

Posted May 21, 2025

The following discussion is part of a longer analysis published in Social Policy (Spring 2025), “From L4B to TAT. Challenging Union Political Endorsements Takes Rank-&-File Action,” which includes an account of the Labor for Bernie initiatives in the 2016 and 2020 presidential election campaigns. Steve Early worked for nearly 30 years as an International Union representative for the Communication Workers of America and helped co-found….

California Teachers Take to the Streets

Bill Balderston

Posted May 21, 2025

On Saturday, May 17th over 15,000 teachers and allies took to the streets in five locations throughout California to protest attacks that undermine public education in the state.

This is a rather unprecedented action by the California Teachers Association (CTA) who initiated the actions. There have been times when the CTA has called for members from many areas to come to Sacramento to protest at the state legislature (as a more militant lobbying effort), or to have delegates from all over the state…

Trump’s Mass Deportation Wave

Dianne Feeley

Posted May 16, 2025

Key to Trump’s Make America Great Again pledge was the promise to deport millions of immigrants. During both his presidential campaigns he identified immigrants as “terrorists, murderers, rapists” or “individuals let loose from mental institutions.” Once elected again, he promised to seal the U.S.-Mexico border and deport several million people.

Since December 2023, as the Biden administration introduced restrictions, the number of migrants has sharply declined. That trend has continued…

Statement on “Operation Sindoor”

Radical Socialist

Posted May 9, 2025

THE INDIAN ARMED Forces have launched “Operation Sindoor,” which has carried out strikes in as many as nine places spread over three cities in Pakistan occupied Kashmir and Punjab province. A counter-strike by Pakistan, also to be condemned, has led to lives lost in Poonch.

All this is an extremely worrisome development, though not entirely….

From the Front Line: A Critical Look at Indo-Pak War 2025

Farooq Tariq

Posted May 9, 2025

ON THE MORNING of 7th May, when I answered my doorbell and went outside looking for who rang, my neighbor loudly asked me to turn off all my lights. This command signaled to me that we are living in a moment of war. Living near the Wahgha border, we heard a deafening noise around 8.30 am, followed by a blast. An Indian Harop drone, made by Israel, struck a close by military installation….

May Day Strong

Posted May 7, 2025

MAY DAY 2025, hundreds of thousands of people marched, rallied, picketed or carried out civil disobedience in over 1,000 towns and cities across 50 states. Since May 1, 1886, when workers in industrial cities around the country demanded implementation of an eight-hour workday, the day has been a platform for workers’ demands and protests.

The focus this year opposed the range of actions the Trump team has launched in its first 100 days. Trump and his team have fired thousands of government workers,…