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Free the Children! End the Starvation and Genocide!
Ukraine Solidarity Network (US)
Posted July 7, 2025
INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’s DAY is June 1 in Ukraine, Russia, and 47 other countries. This Children’s Day, the Ukraine Solidarity Network (US) calls for the freedom and return of the tens of thousands of Ukrainian children whom Russia has kidnapped and for ending the mass starvation of millions of children in Palestine, Sudan, and other sites of widespread child hunger such as Haiti, South Sudan, and Mali….
Contradictions without Dialectics: Debating Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education
Harvey J. Graff & Sean Kamperman
Posted June 29, 2025
Against the Current is opening a discussion in our pages, and online, on the challenges and dangers as well as the potential represented by Artificial Intelligence (AI). Our July-August issue (ATC 237) will include an AI-for-beginners article by Peter Solenberger to initiate the coverage. Among the arenas of the AI debate is its controversial role in higher education. The authors of the following piece urge us not to fall into a binary pro-or-con attitude about AI in the academy……
The Israel-U.S.-Iran War: An Interview with Yassamine Mather
Posted June 26, 2025
Suzi Weissman interviewed Yassamine Mather on June 20, 2025 for Jacobin radio. Their discussion has been abridged and edited for posting here.
Suzi Weissman: Welcome to Beneath the Surface. I’m Suzi Weissman and today I’m joined by Yassamine Mather, a longtime socialist critic of the Islamic Republic. She’s the acting editor of Critique, a journal of Socialist Theory, where I am also on that editorial board. Her research on Iran is within the framework of the Middle East Center at…
Peering into the Darkness
Yassamine Mather
Posted June 25, 2025
Yassamine Mather questions the western nuclear bomb narrative, discounts the chances of managed regime change and insists that Israel’s war is not only against the regime. Millions of ordinary Iranians are in danger and must be defended
In its compliance with the U.S. agenda, the media keep telling us….
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…
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Against the Current
- State of the Resistance—The Editors
- Deported? What’s in a Name?—Rachel Ida Buff
- AI: Useful Tool or Menace?—Peter Solenberger
- Trump’s War on Free Speech & Higher Ed—Alan Wald
- Reflections: The Political Moment in Higher Ed—Leila Kawar
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