The Zohran Mamdani Campaign: Solidarity with the Movement & Critical Notes on the Future
Posted October 2, 2025
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 difficult or unlivable for much of its working-class population — particularly housing and transport costs, the absence of reliable and safe childcare, and food deserts. It also offers a response to the gangsterism of the Trump administration.
While New York obviously has distinctive features, the affordability crisis is not unique to the city. It is sucking the life out of many U.S. urban and rural communities. Add to that the terrorism of the Trump administration as it sends masked men into communities to arrest, imprison and deport people who are seeking sanctuary and to intimidate anyone who dares speak in their defense.
Mamdani’s standing with immigrant communities has provoked Trump into saying he should be deported. Even if this is empty bluster, it’s an implicit incitement to violence at this particularly frightening moment in U.S. politics. And it certainly menaces the Muslim communities in the city and beyond.
The genocide in Gaza, perpetrated jointly by the Israeli state and the USA, and the ethnic cleansing and Israeli annexationism in the Palestinian West Bank, are key issues in Mamdani’s campaign. His support for Palestinian rights has included visiting synagogues to meaningful dialogue with the Jewish community as he stands with Jewish supporters of Palestinian freedom. Yet he and his supporters are viciously branded by the right as “antisemites” and “supporters of terrorism.” We stand with Mamdani and his supporters in their opposition to Islamophobia.
Mamdani himself is a committed “democratic socialist” (and polling suggests that as much as 40% of the U.S….
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Problems of Canada’s long postal strike, and militant possibilities
Ivan Drury Zarin
Posted October 8, 2025
At the end of their first week back out on strike, I visited a Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) picket line to bring them a box of baked goods and a message of solidarity. This report reflects on the dynamics of the strike, good and bad.
I’m sorry to say that the mood at the postal workers’ picket line is more browbeaten than it was when they were out in December. Some strikers told me that people are driving down their lines to yell at them to get back to work, accusing them of “always…
Lifeline to Javier Milei’s Far-Right Government of Argentina
Eric Toussaint
Posted October 7, 2025
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 the provincial Senate. The Peronist opposition beat Milei’s party by 13 points and holds a majority in the Buenos Aires Provincial Senate. The capital province represents about 37-38% of the national…
Assata Shakur (1947–2025)
Alan Wald
Posted October 3, 2025
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 murder in 1977 in an act of political retaliation, died a free woman on September 25 in Havana, Cuba.
Assata escaped prison in 1979 and fled to Cuba, where she received…
The “Deal of the Millennium” After the “Deal of the Century”
Gilbert Achcar
Posted September 30, 2025
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 the Century” between the Arabs and the State of Israel — a phrase Netanyahu echoed in his effusive praise of the U.S. president during…
Donald Trump vs. History: The Trump School of Falsification
Bruce Levine
Posted September 29, 2025
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 U.S. history that reigned over both academia and public culture from the late 1940s through the early 1960s.
To drive that campaign forward, the Trump regime has now launched simultaneous assaults against schools, libraries, museums, the National Parks Service, and even the National Archives.
The conservatives’ favored Cold War narrative celebrated…
Political Assassinations & Socialist Ethics
The Against the Current Editors
Posted September 25, 2025
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, not destruction, and the reduction of brutality wherever possible. We believe, like Gramsci, that socialism is mainly won by consent, education, and revolutionary mass engagement to qualitatively…
Remembering Charles Sumner
Derrick Morrison
Posted September 23, 2025
The Great Abolitionist:
Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union
By Stepen Puleo
Thriftbooks, 2024, 464 pages.
“In a scene similar to Lincoln’s funeral nine years earlier, Sumner’s body had been transported north by special train that left Washington around 3:00 P.M. on March 13
“But unlike Lincoln’s train returning to Springfield, Illinois, which stopped numerous times along the way, the train carrying Sumner’s body traveled…
Trump Tariffs Threaten Brazil: Pushing for Regime Change
Gilberto Araújo
Posted September 17, 2025
U.S. IMPERIALISM IS reaching a new level under Trump’s second administration. Amid the instability of the U.S. economy and its global power, the American president is pursuing an openly aggressive foreign policy, combining threats, acts of aggression, and distancing the United States from multilateral bourgeois institutions that it once helped create.
South America’s largest country, Brazil fits squarely into this framework. In July, Trump announced the highest tariffs in the world against…
Kirk Assassination Puts the Left in Danger
Dan La Botz
Posted September 17, 2025
WE WANT TO draw readers’ attention to this important article by Dan La Botz, to begin a discussion of the dangerous escalation of the Trump regime’s campaign to terrorize dissent and cripple progressive organizing. The murder of Charlie Kirk presents Trump with the pretext that the 9/11 attacks gave to the George W. Bush administration, for unleashing domestic repression and global war — with such disastrous results for this country, Afghanistan, Iraq and the world.
While facts are slowly emerging,…
Defend Thomas Alter!
The ATC editors
Posted September 17, 2025
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 University. Professor Alter, a tenured historian, was fired in….
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