By from Rise Up/Levanta Texas An entire year has passed since the shouts heard around the world reverberated throughout the Texas Capitol and forced the state legislature to come to a screeching halt. Rise Up/Levanta Texas formed in late June…

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By by Marty Oppenheimer Just two weeks after the August 28, 1963 March on Washington, four girls aged 11-14 — Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Denise McNair — died in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist…

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By David Finkel “WE HAVE TO liberate ourselves from the idea that we caused this,” says Tony Blair, former British Prime Minister, referring to the present disaster in Iraq. The first question this raises is why anyone would ask for…

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By Angela Walker interviewed by Dan La Botz Angela Walker, an independent socialist, is running for the office of Sheriff in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this coming November. Her campaign is part of a trend of independent labor, Green Party, and socialist…

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By from the Political Committee of Solidarity Earlier this week, a number of organizations claiming to support immigration reform—including SEIU (Service Employees International Union), National Immigration Forum, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, Sojourners, and…

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By by Dan La Botz Subcomandante Marcos, the famous voice of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) announced in the early hours of Sunday, May 26 that he ending his role as the group’s spokesperson and military commander. Or…

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By by Greg Chern Writers in Alternative Left media — e.g. Socialist Worker, Labor Notes, Jacobin, and Truth Dig — have reported on what the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will mean for health care consumers (the individual family or individual…

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By by Brad Duncan Saxophonist, composer, and revolutionary Marxist activist Fred Ho (1957-2014) was a dynamic and prolific force within Jazz and radical left movements for over 40 years. A baritone saxophonist inspired by the avant-garde currents in African-American music,…

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By by Nagesh Rao This article was written shortly before the elections, but the analysis is of continuing relevance.In the lead-up to India’s parliamentary elections—which began in early April and continue through mid-May—progressive intellectuals, activists and organizations sounded the alarm…

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By from "An Attack On Us All" The National Committee of Solidarity has endorsed the statement below from An Attack On Us All:On May 2, 2014, in the Zapatista territory of La Realidad, Chiapas, Mexico, the group CIOAC-Histórica [with the…

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By by Ian Angus In “A Fossil Fuel Exit Program,” published in the most recent issue of Against the Current and on Climate and Capitalism, Norwegian socialist Anders Ekeland urges ecosocialists to support the climate change program proposed by one…

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By by the Editors “Free the land!” is the rallying cry of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM). The struggle for control over land—whether by maroon communities escaping enslavement, families and sometimes whole communities seeking independence from the plantation after…

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By by David Finkel The following is intended as a brief followup to the editorial in the new issue of Against the Current (issue 170), where we predicted that the Ukraine crisis and the international tension surrounding it “will not…

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By Equal Time Radio interviews Kim Moody and Sheila Cohen Labor activist/intellectual Kim Moody, author of In Solidarity: Essays on Working-Class Organization and Strategy in the United States and a founder of Labor Notes, and Sheila Cohen, author of Ramparts…

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By by Eugene V. Debs On the occassion of May Day, the powerful message of Eugene V. Debs still speaks to us as a voice of revolutionary socialism and a beacon of sanity in a world that is as insane…

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