Webzine
The First Phase of the Mamdani Campaign
Howie Hawkins
Posted July 17, 2025
THIS ARTICLE IS a slightly edited section from “Independent Political Action Under Trump” that appeared in Counterpunch, July 8, 2025.
What About Zohran Mamdani?
Zohran Mamdani’s win in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor on June 24, 2025 is being hailed by advocates of organizing progressive politics inside the Democratic Party. They say it shows that their strategy of running on the DP line is a winning strategy….
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
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….
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…
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…….
All Webzine articles
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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