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State of the Resistance

The Editors

Posted June 23, 2025

A BIG, BEAUTIFUL popular resistance is trickling up to some of the sites of political power, including the federal courts — although not fast or far enough, by a long shot. That’s been the important takeaway from the first 100-plus days of the Trump administration. But we’re barely at the beginning of what will be a long battle with ups and downs.

The June 14 “No Kings” rallies were both cheeky and inspirational….

Resisting Trump for Palestine

David Finkel

Posted June 22, 2025

With the direct U.S. entry into Israel’s war on Iran, most corporate media attention has turned away from the Gaza genocide and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. Furious regional and European diplomatic efforts appear to focus on heading off a full-scale conflagration that could bring about not only the collapse of the strategically crippled and generally despised “Islamic Republic,” but the disintegration of the Iranian state.

Along with the immediate catastrophe is the emerging long-term…

Iran’s Regime in a Predicament of Its Own Making

Gilbert Achcar

Posted June 17, 2025

ONE OF THE most famous sayings about revolutions is attributed to one of the most prominent leaders of the French Revolution during its most radical phase, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767-1794): “Those who make revolution halfway only dig their own graves.” This saying also applies to armed conflicts, as historical evidence indicates that those who engage in these conflicts and confrontations half-heartedly against people they have declared to be their absolute enemies, thus inducing in these…

Struggle for Justice Eclipses Military Parade

Posted June 17, 2025

MORE THAN FIVE million people turned out to “NO KINGS” to the rallies and marches held in 2100 cities and small towns across the country on June 14. The creative signs captured the news, eclipsing Trump’s military parade in Washington, D.C. While Trump claimed a turnout of 250,000 spectators for a parade that cost $45-100 million, photographs reveal partially filled grandstand set up along the parade route.

Across the country people mocked the would-be king on his 79th birthday with…

Stop Israel Now!

Fourth International

Posted June 14, 2025

ISRAEL’S UNPRECEDENTED ATTACk on Iran is a direct result of the impunity it has enjoyed while carrying out a live-streamed genocide in Palestine over the past 20 months. Under the false pretext of “self-defense,” Israel has escalated its long-standing policy of Palestinian erasure into full-scale genocide. Now, it extends that aggression by bombing Iran,…

ICE out of Los Angeles! Withdraw the National Guard! Stop the terror campaign against immigrant communities!

Posted June 9, 2025

Statement by the Solidarity National Committee

For several days now protests have erupted against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in working-class immigrant communities in the Los Angeles area. Most of the ICE raids took place in the garment district and at “shake-up” locations where immigrant day laborers congregate looking for work. Over 100 supposedly undocumented workers from Mexico and Central America have been detained. Another 100 have been arrested for defending these workers…

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….…