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 including David Huerta, President of the California Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Huerta had to be hospitalized for the injuries he received.
In response to the resistance of the Latinx-American community to this ICE terrorism, the Trump government has mobilized the California National Guard against the protesters, while Peter Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, has threatened to call in the Marines. Gavin Newsom, California’s governor, and Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles — both Democrats — have publicly opposed the calling in of the National Guard, but they have not called on either the California National Guard or the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) to refuse to cooperate. In fact, under Bass’s direction the LAPD has collaborated with federal authorities in both the raids and suppression of the protests. Already one journalist has been shot…
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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,…
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….…
Teamsters Against Trump, 2024
Steve Early
Posted May 21, 2025
The following discussion is part of a longer analysis published in Social Policy (Spring 2025), “From L4B to TAT. Challenging Union Political Endorsements Takes Rank-&-File Action,” which includes an account of the Labor for Bernie initiatives in the 2016 and 2020 presidential election campaigns. Steve Early worked for nearly 30 years as an International Union representative for the Communication Workers of America and helped co-found….
California Teachers Take to the Streets
Bill Balderston
Posted May 21, 2025
On Saturday, May 17th over 15,000 teachers and allies took to the streets in five locations throughout California to protest attacks that undermine public education in the state.
This is a rather unprecedented action by the California Teachers Association (CTA) who initiated the actions. There have been times when the CTA has called for members from many areas to come to Sacramento to protest at the state legislature (as a more militant lobbying effort), or to have delegates from all over the state…
Trump’s Mass Deportation Wave
Dianne Feeley
Posted May 16, 2025
Key to Trump’s Make America Great Again pledge was the promise to deport millions of immigrants. During both his presidential campaigns he identified immigrants as “terrorists, murderers, rapists” or “individuals let loose from mental institutions.” Once elected again, he promised to seal the U.S.-Mexico border and deport several million people.
Since December 2023, as the Biden administration introduced restrictions, the number of migrants has sharply declined. That trend has continued…
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