Author: Dianne

  • The New McCarthyism: A Personal Testimony

    The New McCarthyism: A Personal Testimony

    I AM A tenured professor of English at Occidental College in Los Angeles, which has a long tradition of progressive activism, including around Palestine. I have served as the faculty advisor to the campus chapter of the Students for Justice in Palestine for about 12 years. There was nothing unusual about the fact that, soon…

  • Chaos Here and There

    Chaos Here and There

    Oh, no, not again! [This letter from the editors is a preliminary version of the statement for the forthcoming May-June 2024 issue of Against the Current.] AFTER NON-SUPER TUESDAY, Nikki Hayley’s presidential campaign, and Colorado’s hail-Mary effort to bar Donald Trump from the ballot all came and went, more basic facts of the political landscape…

  • Frantz Fanon and the Paradox of Anticolonial Violence

    Frantz Fanon and the Paradox of Anticolonial Violence

    Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination By Adam Shatz New York: Verso, 2023, 357 pages, $29 hardback. The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon By Adam Shatz New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024, 451 pages, $32.00 hardback. ARE YOU THE kind of socialist activist looking for easy answers to questions…

  • The Significance of “Uncommitted” Vote in Michigan

    The Significance of “Uncommitted” Vote in Michigan

    [UPDATE: Super Tuesday primary results in Minnesota show the “Uncommitted” movement spreading, with 19% of Democratic voters choosing that option. In Massachusetts, nine percent voted “No Preference” in the Democratic primary….

  • Open Letter to the Israeli and U.S. Governments and Others Weaponizing the Issue of Rape

    Open Letter to the Israeli and U.S. Governments and Others Weaponizing the Issue of Rape

    ALL TOO OFTEN in the fog of war, the brutality of sexual assault and rape is lost in the public eye, and bringing these abuses to light is something for which feminists have fought for decades. Complicating this issue, however, is the fact that accusations of sexual assault have also been wielded as a tool…

  • Freedom for Boris Kagarlitsky! Solidarity is Stronger than Repression!

    Freedom for Boris Kagarlitsky! Solidarity is Stronger than Repression!

    BORIS KAGARLITSKY*, RUSSIAN Marxist writer-activist, had an unexpected “appeal” trial on February 13, 2024. Prosecutors were seeking to overturn the results of his two-day trial in December 2023, when Kagarlitsky was released with a fine after serving 4.5 months in pre-trial detention in the Komi Republic,…

  • Alexi Navalny Killed in Prison

    Alexi Navalny Killed in Prison

    Alexey Navalny in the middle of the crowd, Moscow rally March 10, 2012 ALEXI NAVALNY WAS killed in prison. Federal penitentiary service reported the death of the politician but it is evident that he did not die by himself, he was killed by Vladimir Putin. Navalny’s anti-corruption investigations and campaigns helped to politicize millions of…

  • Israel’s Genocidal War After Four Months

    Four months have elapsed since the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation and the start of the Zionist genocidal war that ensued. The situation has now surpassed the 1948 Nakba in terms of intensity of disaster as well as in terms of horror. Consider the facts presented by the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to adequate…

  • Gaza: A Ghastly Window into the Crisis of Global Capitalism

    Gaza: A Ghastly Window into the Crisis of Global Capitalism

    AS THE WORLD watches in horror over the mounting death toll of Palestinian civilians and Israel faces charges before the International Court of Justice for the Crime of Genocide, the carnage in Gaza gives us a ghastly window into the rapidly escalating crisis of global capitalism. Connecting the dots from the merciless Israeli destruction of…

  • The First US-Israeli Joint War

    The First US-Israeli Joint War

    THE ISRAELI MILITARY forces’ war on Gaza, following Hamas’s 7 October attack, is the first Israeli war in which Washington is a co-belligerent. The US openly supports the war’s proclaimed goal and is blocking calls for a ceasefire at the United Nations — all while providing arms and ammunition to Israel and acting to dissuade…