Against the Current magazine

01/05/2025

Happy May Day! 🌹 Our new ATC issue is here, in print and online – featuring Kim Moody on the U.S. tariff debacle, Promise Li on social movement media, and more!

12/09/2024

September 12, 2024 marks 100 years since the birth of the great revolutionary Amilcar Cabral. Balasingham Skanthakumar reviews his life and contributions in our latest issue, AGAINST THE CURRENT #232.

01/09/2024

ATC #232 is here! 🔥

Featuring...
– "'No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky': 100 Years of Amilcar Cabral" by B. Skanthakumar
– "Cause at Heart: Socialists & the Abolition of Antisemitism" - Review Essay by Alan Wald
– Socialist perspectives on the November U.S. election ..and more!

Available online for free and via digital & print subscriptions. Contact us to learn more about distro to your local bookstore, café, infoshop, etc! 🌹

04/06/2024

This article went to press in our new issue before the ultimate passage of U.S. military aid to Ukraine, along with $14 billion in new subsidy for Israel and assistance for Taiwan. The aid for the Israeli assault on Gaza’s population is an unspeakable obscenity that will be the defining presidential legacy of “Genocide Joe” Biden.

How quickly the urgently needed weaponry for Ukraine is delivered, and whether it will help hold back Vladimir Putin’s attempt to turn Ukraine into another new Gaza, is an open question.

28/05/2024

"Barbie occupies this contested nexus of social meanings, offering viewers satirical humor and escapist solace, providing the corporation a financial bonanza, and giving critics and artists a springboard for sometimes radical memes and insights."

21/05/2024

The task of stopping the international spread of right-wing Hindutva ideology is not just for Indian diasporic groups. The broader left has to be involved in resisting Hindutva and its expansion.

14/05/2024

Oscar Mendoza, a Chilean social scientist imprisoned between during the repressive Pinochet years, reflects on a return trip to Chile in commemoration of 50 years since Salvador Allende's murder.

07/05/2024

In our current and next issue, we are reprinting an interview with Hafsa Kanjwal on the history and evolution of Kashmiri resistance, from the Ukrainian leftist magazine, Commons: Journal of Social Criticism.

01/05/2024

Happy May Day! 🌹 Workers of the world, unite!

True to the internationalist orientation of this global day of solidarity, our May/June issue tackles issues around the world: Hindutva, Kashmiri resistance, P&lestine, Ukraine, repression the U.S. and more. In print and online.

25/04/2024

The use of lawfare against public protests, as Jeffrey C. Isaac notes, has a long tradition. During the French Revolution, the Cold War, and apartheid-era South Africa, he writes that “authorities acting in the name of the common good have all too [often] invoked ‘public safety’ to justify the violent repression and imprisonment, and more commonly the harassment and firing, of dissenters.”

Indiana University campus activists made their position clear: Reinstate Sinno! FOLLOWING PAMELA WHITTEN’s installation as President of Indiana University and her appointment of Rahul Shrivas…

11/04/2024

"For socialists in 2024, many issues at the core of this book will be familiar. Battles over the causes and impacts of mass migration, over the efficacy of parliamentary politics, over the nature of imperialism and war, and over gender equality, continue to be among the most important issues facing society.

Socialists remain divided over how to deal with them, as the messy politics of “big tent” organizations such as the DSA make clear. Taber’s collection is instructive because it shows how, despite very substantial divisions, the international socialist movement was able to provide a political home for millions of socialist workers."

Reform, Revolution, and Opportunism Debates in the Second International, 1900-1910 Mike Taber, editor Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2023, 272 pages, $21.95 paperback. ONE OF THE positive results of the…

14/03/2024

"Shatz’s unsettling appraisals may be just what we require at this fraught political moment. They speak to several issues turbo-charged by the 7 October 2023 bloodshed in Israel, and the industrial-scale genocidal onslaught that has followed. His well-versed approach may help clarify long festering debates about what constitutes meaningful socialist commitment to Palestinian liberation and the indispensable eradication of Zionist settler-colonialism."

ATC Editor Alan Wald reviews Adam Shatz's new book, "Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination." (Verso Books, 2023)