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Statement on the Citizen Amendment Act, the Proposed National Register of Citizens and the Ongoing Protests Against Them
West Bengal protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act and police crackdown on Jamia university, December 2019 (Photo: PTI) The Radical Socialist Group (RS) salutes the students up and down the country that have been the real spark that has ignited this popular agitation against the iniquitous Citizen Amendment Act (CAA) and the proposed all-India National…
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Congratulating Kshama Sawant
Dear comrade Kshama Sawant The National Committee of Solidarity sends our congratulations on your successful and hard-fought reelection campaign. It’s a heartening example for the left, showing that the power of big corporate money and media bias can be overcome by fighting for the interests of working class and oppressed people’s communities. We wish you…
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J Street is great! Right?
We Palestinians in America have watched AIPAC ravage us for decades. For years, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee has specialized in dehumanizing Palestinians, erasing (or denying) our history, and debasing our national aims. Every Palestinian in America, and perhaps worldwide, is raised learning of its evil intentions, achievements, and genius. In fact, one of…
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2020 Presidential Election Debate
The September-October and November-December 2019 issues of Against the Current carry a debate on the 2020 U.S. presidential election with articles advocating support for Bernie Sanders, support for the Green Party’s Howie Hawkins, and “anybody but Trump.” What the Sanders’ Campaign Opens by Dianne Feeley argues: Bernie Sanders’ campaign of four years ago put socialism…
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Statement on the Indian Supreme Court’s Ayodhya Verdict
The Babri Masjid (Mosque of Babur) before it was destroyed by Hindu supremacists in 1992 This statement from the Indian organization Radical Socialists is in response to a recent ruling by the Indian Supreme Court. The ruling cedes to Hindu supremacists the right to build a temple on the site where Babri Masjid, a mosque…
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The World Up in Arms Against Austerity and Authoritarianism
Much of the world at this moment is a laboratory searching for the cure for capitalism, and the social scientists running the experiments are in the streets. Around the world, people are rising up in arms, on nearly every continent and in more than a dozen nations. In the last six months there have been…
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Letter to President Sebastián Piñera
The undersigned trade union organizations announce that the world of labor has articulated, organized, and placed its will toward unity, over and above the concerns of any particular organization, in order to support the demands that the Chilean people have put forward in the streets during recent weeks.
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The GM Strike and the Historical Convergence of Possibilities
On September 16, 2019, forty-six thousand defiant General Motors (GM) workers streamed out on strike. This eruption of long-festering worker anger and frustrations was directed not only at a corporation that had treated its workforce so shabbily, but also at the often-complicit role of their own union. The strike call came from the UAW’s top…
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Bolivian Horizons: An Interview with Pablo Solón
Bolivians went to the polls on Sunday, October 20, 2019. According to the country’s electoral system, in order to avoid a second round in presidential elections the leading candidate must secure 51 percent of the vote, or more than 40 percent of the vote and a lead of 10 percent over the second place candidate.…
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Chile: Trade union declaration for social transformation
Forward to the General Strike for the Constituent Assembly The undersigned trade union organizations have come together in a historical meeting whose purpose was to show unity in the face of the indolence and unwillingness of the government, business and parliament to listen to, pay attention to, and act on the demands the Chilean people…