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Solidarity Statement with Protests in China

Against the Current, Collective — 2022-12-08T09:36:47Z

A joint statement published in Against the Current, New Politics, Spectre, and Tempest.

- IV575 - December 2022 / China

Guatemala: Strike and Crisis

Against the Current — 2021-08-31T07:51:10Z

A NATIONAL STRIKE led by Indigenous Guatemalans, as well as an institutional crisis over the peremptory firing of anti-corruption prosecutor Juan Francisco Sandoval, are shaking that Central American country.

- IV559 - August 2021 / Guatemala

Sexual Harassment and #MeToo in China

Against the Current — 2019-05-17T09:39:51Z

Chinese women still face perilous conditions in society and the workplace, often falling victim to sexual harassment. Women are discriminated against in job applications. Research conducted by Human Rights Watch found that almost 20% of civil service positions released in early 2018 either required job applicants to be male or expressed a preference for male candidates, whereas only one job post indicated a preference for females.

- IV532 - May 2019 / Women, China

Canada as an Extractive State

Against the Current — 2019-05-16T06:59:19Z

Against the Current interviewed Todd Gordon, co-author (with Jeffery Webber) of Blood of Extraction: Canadian Imperialism in Latin America about mining operations in Canada and internationally. He is a socialist activist in Toronto and a member of the Toronto New Socialists.

- IV532 - May 2019 / Ecology and the Environment, Canada, Latin America, Ecuador, Indigenous struggles

One-Half Cheer for Trump on the Climate?

Against the Current — 2017-06-29T21:18:55Z

On a fateful Thursday, June 1, Donald Trump announced that “The United States will withdraw from the Paris climate accord,” setting off alarm bells and outraged protests in U.S. cities and around the world. We would suggest that under present circumstances, he chose the better – well, less bad — of the existing options.

- IV509 - June 2017 / United States (USA), Ecology and the Environment, Climate

What Kind of Opposition?

Against the Current — 2017-04-28T06:36:07Z

Donald Trump's way to “drain the swamp” is evident: Put the swamp creatures in the cabinet. But one example in particular, the appointment and confirmation of Commerce Secretary Wilbur L. Ross, Jr., shows as much about the opposition as it does about Trump.

- IV507 - April 2017

Trump's Road to Ruin

Against the Current — 2017-03-07T07:19:39Z

To Donald Trump's credit, he instantly produced the most immense tsunami of popular revulsion to greet any incoming occupant of the White House. From the snarling menace of his “America First” inaugural address, to his cabinet of multi-millionaire and billionaire reactionaries, to the pending removal of millions of people from health insurance, to assaulting women's reproductive rights and attempting to bar Muslim travelers, to attacking Black youth and every vulnerable population, the fear and loathing he's generated have opened up a new period of organizing and resistance.

- IV506 - March 2017 / United States (USA)

Fighting Back for Survival

Against the Current — 2016-12-30T07:31:45Z

On November 8, some 135 million U.S. voters chose between the two least popular capitalist party candidates in the country's modern history. By a margin of close to 2.7 million votes â€” concentrated, to be sure, in huge majorities in California and New York â€” they opted for the choice that seemed less frightening, if hardly inspiring. She did not, however, win the election. By virtue of a relic of slavery-era federalism called the Electoral College and narrow victories in Midwestern battleground states, Donald J. Trump emerged as the president-elect.

- IV503 - December 2016 / United States (USA)

On Imperial Conundrums

Against the Current — 2016-11-14T11:17:00Z

THE SWIRLING CRAZINESS and bizarre entertainments of the 2016 presidential election sometimes obscure how much the outgoing U.S. administration â€” and the next one taking office in January 2017 â€” face a set of global crises on a scale that's hard to recall in recent history.

- IV502 - November 2016 / United States (USA)

Amnesty Now

Against the Current — 2016-09-24T06:08:15Z

President Obama has commuted the unjust prison sentences of hundreds of federal prisoners, mostly for nonviolent drug violations. Unfortunately, there is no evidence that he intends to take action to free prisoners in politically charged cases.

- News from around the world / United States (USA)