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AIPAC: Israel's U.S. Spy Den
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
The socialist Left must remain clear in its avoidance of a conspiratorial view of history. The entire U.S. political spectrum in the aftermath of the 2000 election, and especially since 9/11, has been awash with conspiracy theories. With deep roots in our political culture, ahistorical conspiratorial views of the workings of the world, devoid of any class understanding or a structural and institutional analysis of what we live in, come bubbling to the surface, especially during times of "national crisis."
Allegations Against Russia Less Credible Every Day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Swanson calls into question the US government-driven media accusations that the Russian government had direct involvement in swaying the 2016 US election for Trump, and exames the motivations behind these claims.
Alternative Press Annual 1983, The
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Alternative Press Annual 1984, The
Resource Type: Book
America in Decline
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The American Class System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
American Dreams: Lost and Found
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Interviews with 100 Americans who relate their dreams, disappointments, aspirations and experiences.
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Corporate Research Page
Resource Type: Website
American Taliban
How War, Sex, Sin, and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
America's main international enemy- Islamic radicalism - favors theocracy, curtails civil liberties, embraces torture, represses women, reviles homosexuality, subverts science and education, and reveres force over diplomacy. Markos Moulitsas shows how the American right shares those very same traits. He argues that our domestic jihadists are a greater threat to American democracy than any Islamic terrorist.
America's Last Chance
One Against the Empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The United States is rapidly being turned into a police state.
An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
An extended argument about what the anti-capitalist movement should stand for.
Antiwar Activism and Emerging Feminism in the Late 1960s: The Times They Were A'Changing
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
The efforts of women to end the war in Vietnam have been subsumed into a paradigm that suggests that, some time in the late 1960s, women activists left the antiwar struggle for the new feminist cause, leaving behind the movement that had initially ignited their activist energies. This story of ideological abandonment overstates the case. The variety of organizational, theoretical, and personal lessons learned in the antiwar movement profoundly influenced the organized, theoretically nuanced, and personally impassioned movement of, by, and for women, whose diverse constituent groups shared the idea of liberation from male authority.
Apartheid, Militarism and the U.S. Southeast
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
This is an easy to understand economic report on the joint relation between U.S. policies in Africa and jobs, income and investment in the U. S. Southeast. Seidman examines how the daily realities of life are shaped by the American support of apartheid.
Asian American Activism Stirring
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
For a brief but wonderful moment in 2000, the Ralph Nader/Winona LaDuke Presidential campaign drew widespread public attention to its central theme of restoring democracy by challenging corporate power. Speaking to thousands of supporters at “super rallies” and millions of television viewers, Nader hammered home the three general points that corporate power has:
Banned Books
Informal Notes on Some Books Banned for Various Reasons
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Behind the Confederate Flag Controversy: The Unfinished Civil War
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Some 50,000 people, ninety percent African Americans, marched in Columbia, South Carolina, on January 17, the federal holiday honoring the great civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. The march protest was organized by the NAACP demanding that South Carolina's government remove the Confederate flag from its statehouse. Until the state officials do so, the NAACP pledged to continue its economic boycott of the state.
Binge and Hangover
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
The lords of empire set out to show that the United States, not Iran or any other potential rival, will rule the "new" Middle East. Unable to attack Iran directly, however, they instead employed the willing regional branch office of the U.S. military-industrial complex, the Israeli Defense Force, to destroy Lebanon. A war that began as a triumphal imperial binge has ended, at least as of August 14 if the fragile ceasefire holds, with uncertainty and a hangover. (The ceasefire's fate, following the failed Israeli commando raid in the Bekaa Valley, is uncertain as we go to press.)
Biodiversity is the best defence against corn pests
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Farmers' first line of defence against pests is the ecosystem in and around their fields. With widespread or indiscriminate use of pesticides essential biodiversity is lost - and the result is more frequent and serious infestations, and a decline in food security.
Blood on Their Banner
Nationalist Struggles in the South Pacific
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
An expose of the political policies of France, Indonesia and the United States and how they pose the greatest threat to the stability of the region.
Blueprint for a Green Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
A set of practical proposals for financing a sustainable environment.
Booker's Place
A Mississippi Story
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
In 1965, African-American waiter Booker Wright spoke out in a television documentary, outraging many white Southerners and resulting in his murder. Years later, the filmmaker's son returns to examine the repercussions of the interview on Wright's family and the community as a whole.
Bound By Power
Intended Consequences
Resource Type: Book
These essays focus on how power and ideology work within society. Interviews are with Noam Chomsky, Linda McQuaig, Robert Bertuzzi and others. They speak to the issues of the understanding of power and political dissent, the repression of dissent in post 9/11 media coverage and the war on terror.
Bound for Glory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1943 Published: 1970
The autobiography of folk singer Woody Guthrie.
The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America's Soldiers
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A review of the book, "The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America's Soldiers" by Joseph Hickman.
Bye Bye, Miss American Empire
Neighborhood Patriots, Backcountry Rebels, and their Underdog Crusades to Redraw America's Political Map
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Breakaway movements large and small are rising up across the US. Activists of various stripes want to form new states, even new nations. According to Kauffman, the American Empire is dying, in this investigation into modern-day secession.
California Greens Advance: The Camejo and Chretien Campaigns
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
In California the Green Party is changing both in its social composition and in its political diversity. The party's support for immigrants' rights, especially around the issue of state driver's licenses, has won the party growing support among Latinos. Leading activists such as Nativo Lopez, Chair of the Mexican American Political Association (MAPA), and Miguel Araujo, from Centro Azteca, have come into the Green Party.
Can We Live and Eat Too?
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
In 1579, the fleet of British explorer Sir Francis Drake met the coast of what we now call California. Drake, who would dub his discovery “New Albion” (Albion being the Latin name for Britain), thought he had happened upon an island. Though the source of California’s present-day name is obscure, at least one etymological theory suggests that Drake was not alone in imagining the place as a world apart; the first literary reference to “California,” in a 1510 novel by Spanish writer García Ordóñez de Montalvo, Las Sergas de Esplandián, depicts an island in the Pacific inhabited by Amazonian women.
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 6 - March 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Das Capital, Volume 1
A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1867 Published: 1890
Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
Das Capital, Volume 2
The Process of Circulation of Capital
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1893 Published: 1956
Das Capital, Volume 3
The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1894 Published: 1971
The Case for Staying in Iraq
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
I don't support an immediate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, because I think it would probably make an already bad situation much worse. Of course, there's no guarantee that continuing the occupation will succeed in allowing some form of stability to take hold—particularly if our military forces simply "stay the course" of brutality evidenced in Fallujah, Abu Ghraib, and the training of Iraqi death squads. However, I believe it offers the best chance for the chaotic forces now at work in Iraq to settle, over time, into some type of a coherent nation.
Censored: The News That Didn't Make The News - And Why
The 1995 Project Censored Yearbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Documenting how the U.S. mass media does a shabby job, deliberately or negligently withholding information of vital importance.
Neil Chacker, 1942-2004
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
During the Vietnam war, one Colonel Reberry at Fort Lewis, Washington, posted a threatening notice forbidding the distribution of material that would promote "disloyalty and discontent." A response shortly appeared on the same bulletin board, written by GI Neil Chacker, an American Servicemen's Union organizer.
The CIA: A Forgotten History
U.S. Global Interventions Since World War II
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
This book tells the remarkable story of the multifarious US/CIA interventions in more than fifty foreign countries. Here are all the details of these exploits, the operations behind the overthrow of governments, suppression of revolutions, perversions of elections, assassination of leaders, manipulation of trade unions and other organizations. Here is the account of each of the most significant American interventions.
The CIA's Greatest Hits
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Brief case studies of the CIA's greatest 'triumphs'.
Cities and the Wealth of Nations
Principles of Economic Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Jacobs argues that virtually all economic life, no matter how geographically remote from cities, depends on cities to maintain it or change it.
Civil Rights, Poverty and Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Oppenheimer examines poverty in the United Stated during the 20th century and analyses the power structures that have prevented improvements to the basic living standards in American society.
Civility
A Cultural History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Through a historical, social, and psychological discussion of the civility practices in 3 nations - England, France and the United States, Davetian addresses major topics in public discourse today regarding the ideas and practices of civility and the possibility of a future civility ethic capable of inspiring cooperation across cultural and national boundaries.
Class Warfare
The Assault on Canada's School
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
The authors show that the attack on schools has been mounted by representatives of big business who stand to make a fortune by privatizing education, aided by the religious right, who want to control what is taught -- and not taught -- in our schools.
Class Warfare
Interviews with David Barsamian
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
The Clouds Clear: Labor, Seattle and Beyond
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
As the clouds of teargas lifted from the streets of Seattle two images emerged in public consciousness: The edifice of the WTO brought crashing to its knees, simultaneously revealing an odd Lilliputian army of labor, environmental, church and assorted activists that had appeared out of nowhere to assault what had been presumed to be an unassailable new world order.
The Collapse of Western Morality
The Indispensable People?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Moral degradation is reaching new lows.
Communes in America
The Place Just Right
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Traces the history of collective settlements in the United States and compares their organization and purpose with the communes of today.
Communes USA
A Personal Tour
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
An account of a variety of communes in the United States.
Communication for and Against Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
This anthology explores the circumstances in which communication serves at times as an instrument of repression and domination, and at others as a support for human emancipation.
Connexions
Volume 5, Number 1 - January 1980 - Literacy/Alphabetisation
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Connexions
Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Connexions
Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Connexions
Volume 6, Number 2 - April 1981 - Urban Core/Milieu Urbain
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Connexions Library: USA Focus
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the United States of America.
The Corporations and the State
Essays in the Theory of Capitalism and Imperialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Essays discussing modern U.S. capitalism and imperialism. Each chapter tries to delineate the relationship between 'economic' and 'political' processes, or at least recognize the unity between them. The unifying them is the role of the large corporations in U.S. society and the world eonomy, and the relationship between these corporations and the capitalist state.
The Crisis Beneath the Bailout
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
In early September, 2008 the Department of Labor reported that the U.S. economy in August had lost another 84,000 jobs. This was followed on October 2 with an announcement that officially recorded September job losses accelerated to 159,000. That made nine consecutive months of increasing unemployment, adding up to well over one million jobs lost over the past year.
Crisis in the US
Social and Economic Effects, Restructuring and Methods of Adapting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The cause of the crisis in the US must be found in the context of the world capitalist economy and not credited to internal causes. These internal causes of course exist but in fact only shape the way this crisis is expressed.
Cuba, the United States and the Left
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
The nationalist anti-imperialist revolution of the long beards has lasted forty-one years. It was never a socialist revolution. The Moncada combatants were not socialists, neither were those in the Sierra Maestra (with few exceptions), nor the Cuban people who one morning woke up to hear the news through the radio and from the mouth of Fidel Castro, that in response to the imperialist attacks, the island had become "socialist."
Culture of Complaint
The Fraying of America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Propaganda-talk, euphemism, and evasion are so much a part of American usage today that they cross all party lines and ideological divides. The art of not answering the question, of cloaking unpleasant realities in abstraction or sugar, is so perfectly endemic that we expect nothing else.
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
The searing account of Chris Hedges' and Joe Sacco's travels to sacrifice zones, those areas in the United States where human beings and the natural world are used and then discarded to maximize profit, places that have been offered up for maximum exploitation in the name of profit and progress.
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Jacobs' iconoclastic and brilliant observations on why cities work, and why they don't.
The Debt Squads
The U.S., The Banks, and Latin America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
With major banks now writing off a part of their outstanding loans, the debt crisis remains in the news. The problems of a continent struggling, under pressure from IMF programmes, to keep up its repayments, are having world-wide repercussions. Now, in contrast to the analyses which have reflected the interests of the banks, this book brings in the crucial Latin American perspective. It reveals the dramatic effect that the pressure to keep up repayments has had on the debtor nations.
A Decade of Gulf War Illness
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
The demon is back: Ten years after the U.S. air war began over Kuwait and Iraq on January 17, 1991, tens of thousands of sick Gulf War vets await treatment and/or compensation for chronic health problems brought on by their military service.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The demise of the United States as the global superpower could come far more quickly than anyone imagines. If Washington is dreaming of 2040 or 2050 as the end of the American Century, a more realistic assessment of domestic and global trends suggests that in 2025, just 15 years from now, it could all be over except for the shouting.
Deranging America
Drugged, Indebted, Armed-to-the-Teeth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A question worth asking: Who benefit from a more compulsive, hence more violent, population? Well, if you’re pushing eternal warfare, which we are, you’ll need a pool of nutcases who are willing to shoot anyone for any reason, or none at all, and more deranged oafs at home to go “Rah! Rah!” over any bombing run or drone hit. Are we going into Mali next? Why not? Where is it, by the way? There has never been a country fighting so many wars without a serious debate about any of them. And if you want people to buy first, think later, to rack up life-wrecking debts to satiate all ephemeral cravings, then you ply them with poison, flickering television and thumping music. You don’t want a population capable of deliberating, reflecting, thinking clearly or even listening attentively, much less reading, but one that can be jerked around by any sexy come-on or dumbed down slogan.
Deterring Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Detroit's Foreclosure Disaster
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
In early 2015 the Wayne County Treasurer's office announced that 62,000 Detroit properties were slated for foreclosure, with probably 38,000 occupied. This could result in the displacement of as many as 100,000 Detroiters, or about one seventh of the city's population.
Detropia
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
A documentary on the city of Detroit and its woes, which are emblematic of the collapse of the U.S. manufacturing base.
Devastating Crisis Unfolds
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Bob Brenner, for the ATC editors. The current crisis could well turn out to be the most devastating since the Great Depression. It manifests profound, unresolved problems in the real economy that have been — literally — papered over by debt for decades, as well as a shorter term financial crunch of a depth unseen since World War II. The combination of the weakness of underlying capital accumulation and the meltdown of the banking system is what’s made the downward slide so intractable for policymakers and its potential for disaster so serious. The plague of foreclosures and abandoned homes — often broken into and stripped clean of everything, including copper wiring — stalks Detroit in particular, and other Midwest cities.
Dilemmas of Domination
The Unmaking of the American Empire
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Argues that in a not-too-distant future the American empire's hidden weaknesses will pose fatal challenges to American supremacy.
Doubling Down in Atlantic City
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The casino workers' strike at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino is a defining battle for American labor.
The Earthscan Action Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
The Education Deform Fraud
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Book Review of "Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools" By Diane Ravitch.
Elections and Regime Crisis
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Will the Democrats "regain control of Congress"? Will Joseph Lieberman change parties? Will Hillary Clinton be the Democratic frontrunner for 2008? How much does any of this matter?
Embassy Row Online
Resource Type: Website
Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
The Empire God Built
Inside Pat Robertson's media machine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
A profile of the demagogue who become one of the most successful media moguls in the world.
Empire of Lies and Torture
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
The prohibition of torture in international conventions is absolute. There are no exceptions for so-called "ticking bombs," for "high-value terrorists" or "illegal enemy combatants" or similar improvised fictions—or for extraterritorial prison camps (Guantanamo) where the jailers exercise absolute power but somehow disclaim the legal responsibilities of "sovereignty."
The End of the Regime?
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
The Permanent Detention and Torture Enabling Act of 2006 was the final obscene gesture of a dying Congressional session. (Actually, make that next-to-last: They topped it off with the billion-dollar appropriation to double-fence the Mexican border, even though this means humiliating Bush’s own pals in Mexico, the right-wing politicians whom he helped steal the Mexican election. That’s another crisis we cover elsewhere in this issue.)
False Promises
The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
The Faltering Economy
The Problem of Accumulation Under Monopoly Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
The essays in this volume are part of a radical attempt to grapple with the problems of advanced capitalist development without discarding the real theoretical breakthroughs made by Keynes.
Ferguson and After: Where Is This Movement Going?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The movement that has erupted after non-indictments of the cop killers of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and of Eric Garner in New York City, one further fed by relentless continued police killings of black and brown youth on a weekly basis around the country, is without doubt the deepest social movement to emerge in the United States in more than forty years.
The Fight for Canada
Four Centuries of Resistance to American Expansionism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
In an effort to realize their grand dream of one nation from Panama to the Arctic, Americans have attempted to conquer Canada using war, trade sanctions, and political interventions of all kinds. "That fight for Canada continues to this day," says David Orchard.
First a Hand on Your Crotch, Next a Boot in Your Face
False Choices and Airport Security
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Since 9/11, we have given up many of our rights and our government has condoned practices like torture, legalized assassination, kidnapping, indefinite detention without access to council or trial – all in the name of keeping us 'safe' and 'free'. We have adopted practices and behaviors that we used to abhor in other nations and regimes. These practices, as demonstrated by the TSA, have nothing to do with keeping us safe or free – quite the opposite.
Food, Shelter and the American Dream
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Discusses the state of the American economy, the consequences for politics and culture that might arise from the new situation, and possible solutions.
For the Love of Country?
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Visited once again by the vultures of patriotism and gnawing anxieties about the nature of our republic, we are falling into a renewed debate about our peculiar brand of patriotism. Investing symbols and rituals with meaning others find puzzling, we adorn our automobiles with yellow decals, sport flag lapel pins, and require school children to daily swear allegiance to the state.
Four Books on Hegemony and Resistance
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
There are times when a key analysis has a wakeup effect. The last year saw the publication of four books that together have a potential of such an event, at least for those U.S. citizens who are motivated to try and understand and change the world. The four were not written with the idea that they would be read together, yet taken together they are, I believe, more thought-provoking than if considered separately.
1492-1992 -- Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Articles critiquing the "Columbus myth, and chronicles the repression of North America's original indigenous inhabitants.
FTAA, The Hydra's New Head
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Capitalism in many ways is like the mythical hydra of Greek legend, a gigantic serpent with multiple heads, the center one being immortal; every time an attacker chopped off one of its outer heads, two others grew in its place. It was killed by Heracles, with the assistance of his charioteer Iolaus. As Heracles chopped off a head, Iolaus would burn its neck cavity to keep new heads from growing. Eventually they were able to reach the center head and sever it from the body.
George Bush's Unending War and Israel
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
The present U.S. strategy, defined by the neo-cons at the end of the 1980s, is no longer a strategy of stabilizing world order and building a “new Middle East” through multilateral negotiations, but imposing the “American age,” i.e. U.S. total hegemony, by a global non-ending preemptive war. The Israeli war against the Palestinian people and against Lebanon is part of this global war; indeed, it is the United States’ most advanced and important front.
A Gran Marcha and Beyond
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
March, 2006 marked an eruption that hit the streets, showed its strength, and took everyone including its participants by surprise. Millions marched all over the country: 300,000 in Chicago, 50,000 in Denver, 10,000 in Detroit and Milwaukee, 10,000-20,000 in New York, 20,000 in Phoenix—and somewhere between 500,000 and a million in the Gran Marcha in Los Angeles on March 25. As the U.S. Congress and Senate hold their wretched deliberations on "immigration reform," the communities affected have shown they will not be passive objects, but active subjects, in this debate. As this issue goes to press, mass marches have continued and Congress has recessed in deadlock on the issue.
A Green History of the World
The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Ponting tracks the "green" history of the world showing how throughout history civilizations have collapsed when they exhausted the earth's natural resources.
Greenpeace
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
The Growth Illusion
How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992 Published: 1999
Douthwaite argues that strategies used by governments to raise national income often increase poverty and unemployment. Moreover, in the USA, Britiain, Germany and Australia, each increase in national income consumes more resources than it creates on a sustainable basis. In other words, these economies are running backwards and making their citizens worse off.
The Health Care Crisis and Kerry-Bush
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
A permanent crisis has plagued American health care since 1981. It began with Ronald Reagan, whose tax cuts led to cuts in Medicaid as well as more stringent eligibility rules. The crisis has continued, even through the boom years presided over by Bill Clinton, to the present.
The Historical Moment That Produced Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
As we emerge, hopefully, from this dismal period of rollback, we recall Rosa Luxemburg's remark, shortly before her murder in 1919: "The revolution says: I was, I am, I shall be!" We assert the ongoing reality of communism, "the real movement developing before our eyes," as Marx put it in the Manifesto. Like Hegel's "knights of history," we locate our identities not in any immediacy but in the emerging new universal that must be the cutting edge of the next global offensive.
The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945
Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
A thorough portrayal of the plans, hesitations, frustrations, and failures of the opposition to Hitler.
Homeless and Hungry at College
Falling Through the Safety Net
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
With students and their family members losing jobs as tuition increases escalate and social services are cut, more and more students are falling through the tattered social safety net.
Ignorance and Courage in the Age of Lady Gaga
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
It can be safely said that cultural ignorance consists of the rational, sensible questions that never get asked. But it also includes the weird ones that are. For instance, one of the questions asked regarding tasering school kids is: What is the allowable weight range of a child to be tased? (Taser manufacturers say 60 pounds.) Somehow, by this geezer’s prehistoric reasoning, that sounds like the wrong question.
In Syria, Western Media Cheer Al-Qaeda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Khalek criticizes Western media for their failure to report on attacks in Syria because to do so would highlight how the West has been responsible for prolonging Al-Qaeda's bloodshed.
Innovation for What? The Politics of Inequality in Higher Education
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Williams discusses why American universities' current trend of advocating innovation ends up prioritizing corporate interests over the gola of accessible education.
Insouciant Americans
Blinding Hypocrisy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Hypocrisy in America is now so commonplace it is no longer noticed.
Interview with Gilbert Achcar
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
On the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Susan Weissman interviewed Gilbert Achcar for her program, "Beneath the Surface," on KPFK, Pacifica radio in Los Angeles. In the following excerpt, Achcar discusses the questions of immediate withdrawal and civil war in Iraq.
Introducing the Year 1905: Centennial of Struggle
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
The year 1905 stands out as the onset of an era of explosive anticapitalist struggle—all the more so 100 years later, when we feel stranded in a neoliberal ice age. Looking back at the events of that year helps give some perspective on how rapidly consciousness and levels of struggle can change.
The Invisible War
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
An investigative documentary about the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the US military.
IPPN Standing Strong in the Storm
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
If I were asked to name the one virtue that best describes the political left in America, I would say “perseverance.” As we know all too well, the long history of the left in our country is a history of frustration, betrayal and defeat, yet also of hope, vigor and determination despite many setbacks and our repeated failure to win any real political power.
Iraq: Guerrilla War in Sadr City
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
In attacking first Najaf, then Tal Afar and Samarra, and finally tackling the center of Sunni resistance in Fallujah, the United States was seeking to reverse this process. But these attacks were not designed to restore order; they were, instead, intended to prevent the consolidation of a very orderly anti-American status quo in a constantly expanding set of "liberated" areas. Ironically, the American attacks in the Fall of 2004 underscore the larger contradictions in American policy in Iraq: that the chaos American leaders keep saying there are preventing will, in fact, occur only if U.S. military forces succeed in destroying these nascent city-states.
Iraq's greatest danger yet: collapse of 'world's most dangerous dam'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
As if Iraq has not suffered enough under Saddam Hussein, the vicious UN sanctions regime, the US-UK occupation and the depradations of Daesh, a new threat looms that could kill a million people or more, and destroy Baghdad and a string of other cities along the Tigris river. The porous rocks beneath the Mosul dam are dissolving away and the entire edifice could collapse at any moment, releasing 11 cubic kilometres of water.
Iraq's Torture by Sanctions
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
An interview with Kathy Kelly. Kathy Kelly, organizer for Voices in the Wilderness, has been involved in the struggle around ending sanctions against Iraq for the past decade. David Finkel interviewed her for Against the Current in January 2001.
Islamic Peril
Media And Global Violence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Israel, Lebanon and Torture
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
An interview with Marty Rosenbluth. Marty Rosenbluth is Amnesty International’s country specialist for Israel, the Occupied Territories and the Palestinian Authority.
It Started in Wisconsin
Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Labor Protest
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
A collection of accounts of the first great wave of grassroots resistance to the corporate restructuring of the Great Recession in Wisconsin in the spring of 2011.
It's War on the Poor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Miah analyzes the increase in numbers within the working poor class and the economic structures that keep them poor.
Jeremy Corbyn Accused of Being Russian 'Collaborator' for Questioning NATO Troop Build-Up on Border
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The armed forces minister for Britain's right-wing government, Mike Penning, accused Corbyn of being a collaborator with the Kremlin.
John Reed Clubs and Proletarian Art - Part I
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The writings of Marx and Engels provide no support for the idea, frequently associated with Marxism, that the movement of the working class to emancipate itself from capitalism and build a classless society requires a proletarian or revolutionary art as an aid to its struggles.
Journalists allege threat of drone execution by US
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Fearing assassination, Al Jazeera's Ahmad Zaidan and independent journalist Bilal Abdul Kareem file US legal complaint.
Just When You Thought 'Russiagate' Couldn't Get Any Sillier
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
The lawsuit against the Trump campaign, the Russian government and WikiLeaks is simply the latest version of what the DNC has been doing since 2016, which is trying to fob blame for its loss of an election it should have won.
The Labor Wars
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973 Published: 1974
A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.
Latin America to Iraq: Greg Grandin's Empire's Workshop
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
The decade of the '70s was not good for U.S. imperialism. The American defeat in Southeast Asia led to the development of the “Vietnam syndrome” and with it the reluctance to use U.S. troops in wars abroad.
The Left and the Elections
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Two electoral paths will be taken by those left of center this year, and all the spilled ink in the world won't affect the choices.
Lessons of an Ambiguous Struggle
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
The conflict around Congress' granting China Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) signals the opening of important new terrain of political struggle. With the background of the two major mass demonstrations against neoliberalism in Seattle and Washington D.C., perhaps the most significant and interesting political development is the leadership role of the AFL-CIO in mobilizing against the most important policy initiative of the waning Clinton administration.
Letter to a Progressive Democrat
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Dear Progressive Democrat: I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000 and I'm proud of it. You voted for Nader and you regret it (or, you voted for Gore, even though you liked Nader better).
Living Wage Campaigns, Part 2: Challenges Facing the Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
IN THE PREVIOUS article (see ATC 76), I discussed the basic concepts, advocates and goals behind living wage campaigns, as well as some of the movement's successes. These include a positive ideological effect on legislators and other organizations' agendas; the creation of strong and lasting coalitions; the development of new worker organizations; and the growth of existing worker organizations.
A Long and Terrible Shadow
White Values, Native Rights in the Americas 1492-1992
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Against the odds, Native peoples have waged a tenacious struggle to survive and the re-emerge as distinct cultures.
The Looting Machine Called Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
I have come to the conclusion that capitalism is successful primarily because it can impose the majority of the costs associated with its economic activities on outside parties and on the environment. In other words, capitalists make profits because their costs are externalized and born by others. In the US, society and the environment have to pick up the tab produced by capitalist activity.
Malcolm X Speaks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
A series of speeches, seminars and press conferences given by Malcolm X during the last years of his life in 1964 and early 1965.
Man's Worldly Goods
The Story of the Wealth of Nations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1936 Published: 1968
Huberman sets out to explain history using economic theory, and to explain economic theory using history. He tries to explain, in terms of the development of economic thought, why certain doctrines arose when they did, how they originated in the very fabric of social life, and how they were developed, modified, and overthrown when the pattern of that fabric was changed.
March of the Vouchers - What Should the Left Learn from School Choice Debates?
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
In April, Florida became the first state to adopt a statewide school voucher plan. By a vote of 25-15 the State Senate adopted the absurdly named “A+ Plan for Education” which had previously been passed in the House by a vote of 70-48.
A Marxist History of the World part 46: The American Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
In 1764, Americans thought of themselves as British subjects of King George III. By 1788, they would, by their own decisions and actions, have made themselves the free citizens of a new republic forged in revolution and war.
A Marxist History of the World part 91: The Cold War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The Second World War had created a world divided between two imperialist blocs. Their nuclear arsenals acted as a ‘deterrent’, but rivalry and suspicion meant that war was never far away.
A Marxist History of the World part 98: The Vietnam War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
How an army of peasant guerrillas managed to defeat US imperialism in a full-scale war.
A Marxist History of the World part 99: 1968 - the long sleep ends
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The long sleep of the post-war period was brought to an end in 1968, as revolts erupted across the developed world.
The Massachusetts Plan: "Universal Coverage"?
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
On April 12, 2006 Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney signed legislation that is being touted nationally as the model for providing health care for all people. The goal of the legislation is to provide health insurance for the State's 780,000 people who have no health insurance, by July 1, 2007.
Media Promote Baseless Assertions By Government Officials Of Russian Interference As Facts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The headline of a New York Times article published April 6, 2017, "C.I.A. Had Evidence of Russian Effort to Help Trump Earlier Than Believed," misleadingly implies not only that there was an effort by the Russian government to help Donald Trump win the American presidential election but that it is a settled fact that the CIA was in possession of hard evidence to that effect.
Meeting the Expectations of the Land
Essays in Sustainable Agriculture and Stewardship
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Addresses the problems facing agriculture today, such as topsol erosion, lowered water tables, reliance on pesticides, dependence on machinery, the overcapitalization of agriculture, the decline of the rural economy, the energy and dollar cost as well as the health problems associated with commercial fertizlers, the shrinking number of family farms, the increasing dependence on fossil fuels.
Michael Berg for U.S. Congress in Delaware: A Voice Against War
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
On June 8 Americans awoke to the news that the U.S. military in Iraq had killed Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, alleged leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. In the midst of press coverage that cravenly accepted government claims that this was, once again, a turning point in the war, one voice in the mass media dramatically countered government claims - that of Michael Berg, Green Party candidate for Delaware's seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The Middle East in Flames
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Andrew Kennedy and Suzi Weismann Interview Gilbert Achcar. Gilbert Achcar is the author of Eastern Cauldron and The Clash of Barbarisms, both published by Monthly Review Press.
The Moral Ambiguity of America
The Massey Lectures for 1966
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
More Unequal
Aspects of Class in the United States
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Yates looks at class from a global vantage point integrating discussions of race, gender, and class, and the emergence of an international capitalist class.
A Movement's Loss
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Puerto Rico is neither a state of the union, nor an independent nation-state. Its residents are U.S. citizens, go to war, have one representative in Congress who cannot vote or even present a motion, pay no taxes and do not vote for president, have no influence or say in federal law, yet are held to all federal standards. Thanks to this legal limbo, for years the island and its people have been used as testing ground for chemicals (e.g. the pill), war agents (e.g. Agent Orange), and even Monsanto is reaping profits now from transgenic crops (Puerto Rico has the highest proportion of Genetic Modification experiments per land area in the world).
Nader, Greens and Socialists
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Blaming Ralph Nader for Bush is like blaming the abolitionists for slavery. The Greens ran Nader to end corporate oligarchy, not to support one wing of the oligarchy as a lesser evil against the other wing. Nevertheless, the Democrats, their liberal satellite organizations, and the corporate media are playing the blame game for all it is worth.
The Nation is Not Divided and Still Prefers Bernie Sanders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The reportage of the presidential primaries has been heavy on personalities and the latest numbers, and light on information useful to voters. Comparisons to a horse race are apt. Were the news to take a documentary approach instead, the campaigns would be revealed as they are: something existing contrary to the public's interests.
The National Question
Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
In her penetrating analysis of nationalism, Rosa Luxemburg argues that the formula of "the right of nations to self-determination" is essentially not a political or programmatic guide to the nationality question, but only a means of avoiding that question.
Never Be A Soldier
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
[This classic, written in 1915, was one of numerous leaflets by Socialist Party leader Debs opposing World War I. His opponents sent co pies of this and other antiwar statements by Debs to the U.S. Attorney General. See Eugene Debs. Spokesman for Labor and Socialism, by Bernard Brommel (Charles H. Kerr, 1978), 117, and Tim Dayton's review of "We Called Each Other Comrade" in this issue of ATC.]
WORKING MEN ARE forced into war as working women are forced into prostitution.
A New Phase of Economic Crisis
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
In early AprilL 2008 the general consensus was that the U.S. economy had clearly fallen into recession. A long list of key economic indicators from November 2007 through March 2008 were all flashing red — from retail sales, job loss, business and consumer confidence and spending to industrial production and other prime indicators.
New Reformation
Notes of a Neolithic Conservative
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969 Published: 1971
Goodman says: "For green grass and clean rivers, children with bright eyes and good color whatever the color, people safe from being pushed around so they can be themselves -- for a few things like these, I find I am pretty ready to think away all other political economic, and technological advantages."
Nickel and Dimed
On (Not) Getting By In America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them, inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on six to seven dollars an hour?
No Classes for Torture! Protests Escalate Against "School of the Americas"
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Spurred by an enormous and unexpected victory in Congress, thousands of protesters will gather later this year at the gates of Fort Benning, GA to demand the closure of the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA), a military facility that provides training for Latin American and Caribbean soldiers and officers.
The No-Nonsense Guide to Class, Caste & Hierarchies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Concentrates mainly on the history of social hierarchy in Western civilization, and particularly the struggles of the working class.
Noam Chomsky: US Is the "Most Dangerous Country in the World"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Nuclear proliferation and climate change are subjects of acute concern in the current moment, driven into an all-out state of emergency by the new Trump administration. In this interview, Noam Chomsky discusses the media coverage of these two major issues, highlighting US tensions with Russia, Iran and North Korea, as well as discussing the recent US airstrike on Syria's Air Force base.
Nuclear Culture
Living and Working in the World's Largest Atomic Complex
Resource Type: Book
An account of the growth of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State, the birth of the atomic bomb, and the culture which it spawned. Here we meet a high school football team - 'The Bombers' - whose helmets feature a mushroom cloud; bridge clubs, brownie troops, and PTAs living virtually in the shadow of A-bomb factories; and workers who find building weapons of mass destruction to be 'just another job.'
Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
An unofficial record of the New York branch of the Occupy movement, Occupy! combines adrenalin-fueled first-hand accounts of the early days and weeks of Occupy Wall Street with contentious debates and thoughtful reflections.
Of National Lies and Racial America
Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama and the Unacceptability of Truth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
To some, the horror of 9/11 was not new. To some it was not on that day that "everything changed." To some, everything changed four hundred years ago, when that first ship landed at what would become Jamestown. To some, everything changed when their ancestors were forced into the hulls of slave ships at Goree Island and brought to a strange land as chattel. To some, everything changed when they were run out of Northern Mexico, only to watch it become the Southwest United States, thanks to a war of annihilation initiated by the U.S. government. To some, being on the receiving end of terrorism has been a way of life.
On Oil and Quicksand
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
The end of 2004 finds the Middle East sliding toward an even bloodier morass, thanks in large part to imperial and colonial arrogance which has rarely been on such open display.
Open Veins of Latin America
Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971 Published: 1973
A political economy, a social and cultural narrative, and a powerful description of primitive capital accumulation.
Our Generation
Volume 3 Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1965
Special Issue on Unilateralism
Our Generation
Volume 5 Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1967
A Parable of Women's Liberation
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Interview with Meredith Tax.
Passionate Declarations
Essays on War and Justice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990 Published: 2003
Essays looking at American political ideology.
Pensions Under Attack
What's behind the push to privatize public pensions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Townson discusses the forces behind the drive to privatize public pensions and its impact on the financial security of seniors. In doing so, she traces a history from Pinochet's Chile to Thatcher's Great Britain to critique Canada's move toward privatization.
Pentagon's War on the Earth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
We are waging war. We are the Nation of War. We destroy. We kill. Everyone fears us. Fewer and fewer admire us. But our fighting forces -- and their attendant industries which manufacture the bombs, bullets, and ballistic delivery devices -- also wage a war on the clean air, clean water, and clean soil many Americans falsely regard as protected by legislation fought for by those trying to protect our environment.
Pledge of Allegiance
The Americanization of Canada in the Mulroney Years
Resource Type: Book
A Poet for Our Planet
Book Review of Friedman's "A Turnpike Utopia"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Azure provides a review of Friedman's poems within the collection "A Turnpike Utopia" dealing with issues of AIDS, workers' rights, racism, and the mistreatment of immigrants.
Polemics and Prophecies 1967-1970
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
An anthology of I.F. Stone's articles from 1967 - 1970.
The Police State is Real
It Has Happened Here
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The Bush regime’s response to 9/11 and the Obama regime’s validation of this response have destroyed accountable democratic government in the United States. So much unaccountable power has been concentrated in the executive branch that the US Constitution is no longer an operable document.
Political Prisoners in the USA
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A list of political prisoners in the USA (with links to support websites).
The Political Slaughterhouse
Statism's Death Knell for Liberty and Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The issue of government coercion has been taken off the radar screen of politically correct thought. The more government power has grown, the more unfashionable it becomes to discuss or recognize government abuses- as if it were bad form to count the dead brought about by government interventions.
The Post MFA Era and the Rise of China, Part 1
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
The Agreement on Textiles and Clothing expired in 2005, ending 30 years of a quota system under the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA). Ending the Agreement signalled the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) promotion of free trade in this sector; but phasing in free trade here has proved to be far from frictionless.
Powers and Prospects
Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Prison Nation
The Warehousing of America's Poor
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Essays on the cruelty and inhumanity of the American prison system.
The Profits of War: Planning to Bomb Iran
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
It is no longer a secret that the Bush administration has been methodically paving the way toward a bombing strike against Iran. The administration’s plans of an aerial military attack against that country have recently been exposed by a number of reliable sources.
The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
a collection of short commentaries by Noam Chomsky on global issues, drawn from interviews in the early 1990s. Topics include global economics, racism, NAFTA, and hot topics of the day.
The Protectionist Trap
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
In July, the United Nations and some fifty large corporations came to an agreement that the companies would all respect workers' rights and protect the environment in their investments around the world. Anyone who believes that this will actually happen is maybe in the market for a certain bridge as well.
Race and Class: Paris to New Orleans
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
It turns out that the city of lights and city of jazz have a lot in common. The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and militant explosions in the suburbs of Paris expose the underbelly of racism and class divisions.
Racism and Structural Solutions
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
When Barack Obama raised the specter of race in a March 18 speech that went far beyond what one would expect from the Democratic Party, some of us on the left were hopeful. Since the 1970s, race-speech in presidential campaigns has been increasingly buried in coded language like, “welfare moms,” “inner-city,” “street crime,” “states’ rights” and so on. We all welcomed a shift away from such discourse. By dealing a bit more squarely with the issue, the speech had the potential to ignite a national debate that could grapple with the “racial stalemate we’ve been stuck in for years,” as Obama put it.
Racist housing? How postwar suburban development led to today's inner-city lead poisoning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The lead poisoning crisis in Flint, Michigan is just the tip of a vast iceberg of lead contamination afflicting mainly urban black communities. A rigid 'race bar' on postwar suburban housing and mortgages left black families in inner cities, exposed to flaking lead paint in run down housing, leaded gasoline residues and lead pipework. Now is the time to correct this shocking historic injustice.
Racist Undercurrents in the "War on Terror"
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Although it is rarely mentioned in the so-called war on terrorism, racism is an undercurrent in every action and decision taken by the Bush-Cheney government. It is a dangerous element that has long-term implications.
The Radical Camera
New York's Photo League, 1936-1951
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Artists in 'the Photo League', active from 1936 to 1951, were known for capturing sharply revealing, compelling moments from everyday life.
Ralph Nader and the Legacy of Revolt
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Ralph Nader, announcing his presidential candidacy in Washington, D.C. on February 21, 2000, said, "The struggle between the forces of democracy and plutocracy has ebbed and flowed throughout our history ... The earlier nineteenth-century democratic struggles by abolitionists against slavery, by farmers against large oppressive railroads and banks, and later by new trade unionists against the brutal workplace conditions of the early industrial and mining era helped mightily to make America and its middle class what it is today. They demanded that economic power subside or be shared."
Ralph Nader and the Legacy of Revolt (Part 2)
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Our electoral dilemma today derives from a political realignment a hundred years ago, when a faction of populists joined in fusion with William Jennings Bryan and the “Free Silver” Democratic Party. After 1896 the two major parties evolved into what they have remained, electoral machines organized from the top down, from elites to ward heelers and courthouse gangs, as vote-catching operations for factions of big business.
Ralph Nader and the Legacy of Revolt (Part 3)
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Ralph Nader has a complex relationship with the historical currents of change before World War I (populism, socialism and progressivism), but it may be his relationship to the Communism of the mid-twentieth century that has shaped his view of reform. Nader readily accepted the prevailing view that the Soviet regime exemplified the definition of socialism, that is, a concentration of bureaucratic power based on government ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution.
Rampant Racism in the Criminal Justice System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The biggest crime in the U.S. criminal justice system is that it is a race-based institution where African-Americans are directly targeted and punished in a much more aggressive way than white people.
The Real Costs of Empire
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Vietnam all over again? Yes, it is. The massacres by United States military forces of unarmed civilians in Haditha and, as is finally being revealed despite official lies and coverup, numerous other Iraqi towns, are showing tens of millions of Americans what this war is, and part of what it really costs. The highest costs obviously are borne by the ordinary people of Iraq; but American society will pay for decades as well for this dirty conflict -- and worse is yet to come.
Reflections of a Siamese Twin
Canada at the End of the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
The tension in Canada between the model of an inclusive more egalitarian community vs. bureaucratic closed structures of government. According to Saul, Canada is a complex original which does not fit the model of uniligual nation-states like Britain, France, and the United States, which, he says, is profoundly upsetting to the simplistic colonial minds of the Canadian establishment.
A Reluctant Memoir of the '50s and '60s
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
I have been asked to write a memoir that would give a sense of the old left/new left realities of the 1950s and ‘60s. That seems quite odd to me (why would I be writing such a thing?), until I look in the mirror and see this old guy looking back at me. As I reflect, it does seem to me that I went through a lot of experience, met a lot of people, and perhaps learned from all that…So I will share some of my story.
Reluctant Memoir, Part 2
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
I think it was in 1963 that I first became aware of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). My older sister Patty had married a very nice guy named Earl Brecher, with whom she went to Liberia as one of the first Peace Corps volunteers, in a program, sending idealistic college graduates to “help” downtrodden areas in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, launched by the Kennedy administration.
Remembering the War and the Movement
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
February 28, 1991. Thinking that weeks of war and antiwar organizing were still ahead (not my only mistake during those months!), I took a Canadian vacation at the end of February 1991 with my lover Christopher. On the morning of February 28 I got up in Vancouver in the friend's house where we were staying and went to collect the Globe and Mail from the front stoop.
Responding to Washington's Haiti Coup
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Caribbean People, representatives of Caribbean organizations and people of Caribbean descent meeting in Bridgetown, Barbados on Saturday March 20th, 2004, unanimously agreed to call on CARICOM Governments to take the following steps as a matter of urgency. In addition we committed ourselves to immediately begin to mobilize public opinion and action in the Caribbean region ourselves, to oppose and reverse the deadly threat to democracy in the Caribbean resulting from the violent overthrow of the Aristide Government by criminal forces supported by the United States of America and France.
A Response to Critics
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
David Finkel's comments (ATC 122) about my book Is Iraq Another Vietnam?, and about my position against immediately withdrawing the US military from Iraq, were well-informed and fair. So were the judgments of Gilbert Achcar in his interview with Susan Weissman, though his focus was on the withdrawal issue in general and not on my essay specifically. Likewise, Michael Schwartz's current ATC response reflects an impressive familiarity with Iraq and the Middle East, and his critique of my analysis is well-taken.
Retired GM worker speaks on three years of the Flint water crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The poisoning of the city of Flint continues three long years after the decision was made by politicians and financial speculators to switch city residents to Flint River water. As the world now knows, the corrosive Flint River water leached lead from the antiquated piping system into the homes of residents. Lead is a deadly neurotoxin. Because next to nothing has yet been done to fix the city’s infrastructure, even after the switch back to Detroit water, there is no safe water supply for thousands of residents.
The Revenge of History
The Battle for the 21st Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
A critical account of the first decade of the twenty-first century.
Reverend Wright and Black Liberation Theology
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The groundswell of broad support for Barack Obama (both among Blacks and whites) is a phenomenon that deserves a serious analysis and understanding. It cannot be down played by passing it through the lens of pure-and-simple lesser-evilism.
The Revisionaries
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
The Revisionaries follows the attempts of a creationist Board of Education member to revise the science and history curricula to better suit a white, Christian nation.
The Rising Seas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Rogue State
A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
A mini-encyclopedia of the numerous un-humanitarian acts perpetrated by the United States since the end of the Second World War.
The Russian Dossier Reminds Me of the Row Over Saddam's WMDs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The conclusions reached in the Trump dossier claim to be based on multiple sources of information where, in the nature of things, they are unlikely to exist.
Silent Surrender
The multinational corporation in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Levitt examines the historical background of foreign investment in Canada, its acceleration since the Second World War, and the nature of the intrusion into a sovereign state of the multinational corporation. she argues that recolonization by U.S. international corporations is rapidly transforming Canada into the world's richest under-developed country.
Silvia Baraldini Wins Return Home
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
On June 11 the U.S. government agreed to a longstanding Italian request to allow political prisoner Silvia Baraldini to serve the rest of her term in her native country. The move, announced by U.S. Ambassador to Italy Thomas Foglietta, appeared to be an attempt to appease Italian public opinion about the U.S. army plane that sliced a gondola cable when flying too low and too fast in the Italian Alps on February 3, 1998, killing twenty people. The pilot, Marine Captain Richard Asby, was recently acquitted by a U.S. military tribunal. In that case Italy returned the pilots involved in the Cermis tragedy and allowed them to be tried in their country of origin.
Situationist International Anthology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981 Published: 2006
A selection of Situationist writings.
'68: The Year of the Barricades
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
The Slave Trade
The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440 - 1870
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
A comprehensive history of the Atlantic slave trade in which approximiately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses.
A Slice of Socialist History
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
The following correspondence sheds light on a lesser-known period in U.S. socialist history during the 1950s. Frank Fried was a member of the Socialist Union, led by Bert Cochran, following the “Cochran Faction” expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in 1953. He wrote this letter in response to a query from Hal Smith, a student engaged in research in the history of the Trotskyist movement. The subsequent comment by Lester Rodney, the longtime journalist who waged a long campaign in the 1930s and ’40s to break the “color line” in Major League Baseball, offers further perspective on the politics of the Communist Party in the period. Both are retired and living in California.
SNCC
The New Abolitionists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964 Published: 1965
An account of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
Social Security--Why It's Under Attack
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
A CHILD BORN in a middle-class family in Europe or America today has a fair chance of living to 85. In one way his/her life will be divided into three periods: First, twenty to twenty-four years growing up and getting educated. Second, about forty years making a living. Third, after 65, come twenty years of retirement.
The Socialist Register 1979
Volume 16: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
A series of essays on the state of the global economy.
The Socialist Register 1980
Volume 17: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
The Socialist Register 1984
Volume 21: The Uses of Anti-Communism
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
The Socialist Register 1988
Volume 24: Problems of Socialist Renewal: East & West
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
An examination of the prospects for socialism written shortly before the fall of the Soviet Union.
Sources HotLink - June 30, 2016
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Articles about the FBI and the information it gathers, Donald Trump and the media, and the role of pharmaceutical companies in suppressing information.
The Suburban Nation
The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
The choice is ours: either a society of homogeneous pieces, isolated from one another in often fortified enclaves, or a society of diverse and memorable neighbourhoods, organized into mutually supportive towns, cities and regions.
Thieving Sons of Bushes
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
“Never Trust a Son of Bush” was one of many signs at George W. Bush's presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C. on January 20. Some 25,000 marched in Washington and 15,000 rallied in San Francisco. The D.C. protest was the largest one at a presidential inauguration since 1973 -- at President Nixon's second term.
Top 10 Proofs People Can Be Completely Manipulated Without Hypnosis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A Transformed Force
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
The following essay is a translated and edited version of a recent op-ed piece by Félix Córdova Iturregui, a veteran socialist activist, member of the Taller de Formación Política and the Frente Socialista de Puerto Rico, and ex-President of the Association of University Professors of the University of Puerto Rico. In this essay, he argues that the massive popular demonstrations after the assassination of Machetero (Popular Puerto Rican Army) leader, Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, occurred in a context where U.S. institutions, particularly the FBI and the U.S. military, are in a rapid period of deterioration, which is being particularly felt in its colony, Puerto Rico.
Transport Policy and the Environment
Six Case Studies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
A Travesty of Justice: Why Peltier Remains in Prison
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
“It's 1999. Why is Leonard Peltier still in prison?” These words were on the huge banner behind the speakers' table for last summer's gathering of forces at Haskell Indian Nations College & Institute at Lawrence, Kansas.
Triple Jeopardy and the Struggle
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Being bi- and female in the Asian movement also means putting in double, triple, quadruple time. The Third World Women’s Alliance, an offshoot of the Black Women’s Liberation Committee of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, dubbed this our “triple jeopardy” dilemma as women of color who have our hands, heads, hearts in multiple movements because of our race, gender and class status.
TSA's Gestapo Empire
A Greater Threat Than the Terrorists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration is a far greater threat to the lives and freedom of Americans than the 'terrorists' it claims to be protecting them from.
The U.S. Army Lost Track of 27 Ballistic Missiles
Military didn't know old Lance rockets were in storage igloos in Alabama
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
For 30 years starting in 1962, the U.S. Army deployed Lance ballistic missiles in Europe. Twenty feet long and weighing a ton and a half, an atomic-tipped Lance could zoom 75 miles at Mach 3 and explode with a force of up to 100 kilotons of TNT. The Army retired its last Lances in 1992 … and ultimately lost track of 27 of them at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama.
The United States and the "Challenge of Relativity"
In Tony Evans (ed.), Human Rights Fifty Years on: A Reappraisal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
In light of the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, Chomsky examines the relativity with which America uses human rights principles to exercise selectivity in policy-making.
U.S. Bombing: Murder as Usual
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Voices in the Wilderness decries today's bombardment of Iraq which hit sites just south of Baghdad. However, we find it instructive to recall the digest of bombings that occurred in the past week and to note that on December 22, 2000 the Gulf News from Dubai quoted figures of civilians killed and injured as a result of US/UK air raids since December 1998 as 311 killed and 927 wounded.
U.S. Labor's Subterranean Fire
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
The broad outlines of the crisis of the U.S. labor movement -— sharply declining union density, concession bargaining, failures to organize the growing non-union manufacturing and service sectors, the labor officialdom’s reliance on institutionalized labor-management cooperation schemes — are familiar to readers of Against the Current. The roots of this crisis — the dominance of bureaucratic business unionism and the weakness of rank-and file-led reform movements from below — are also well-known.
The U.S. Military Under Stress
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
John Kerry's campaign tome should dispel any illusion that he has any significant differences with George Bush on the aggressive use of the U.S. military to defend the empire.
War and the Culture of Violence
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Last year I had the opportunity to see “Winter Soldier,” a rarely shown 1971 documentary based on the testimony of over 100 soldiers recently back from Vietnam. It was filmed during a three-day hearing on war crimes that Vietnam Vets against the War organized in Detroit. Young soldiers spoke about atrocities they had committed in the name of freedom and democracy: throwing suspects out of planes, torching villages, raping women, killing civilians. Of course the Nixon administration attempted to discredit the soldiers and their stories.
War(s) With No Exit
Against The Current vol. 136
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The raging debate on “war policy” between the corporate presidential campaigns has come down to this:
The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Chomsky and Herman demonstrate, with devasting logic and overwhelming documentation, that the purpose of U.S. global policy is to make the world safe for exploitation by U.S. corporate interests and that this has required and continues to require the installation and support of brutal military/police dictatorships throught the Third World. It also requires an apologetic ideology which portrays all this as being in the highest interests of democracy and human rights.
We Are Wisconsin
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
When a Republican Governor’s bill threatens to wipe away worker rights and lock out public debate, six (extra)ordinary citizens join the growing protest at the Wisconsin State Capitol, and spend the next twenty-six days building a movement that not only challenges the bill, but the soul of a nation.
The Wealthy Banker's Wife
The Assault on Equality in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Weatherman
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
A history of the Weatherman organization.
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Rural Poverty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Gurly analyzes the institutional reasons behind widespread poverty, depopulation, and unemployment in Jefferson County, Mississippi.
What's the Matter with the System?
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
The Anti-Empire Report
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The double edged sword of declaring war and fighting "terrorism".
Wherein We Meet Genial Radicals by the Shores of Lake Champlain
The New Secessionists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Secession is the next radical idea poised to enter mainstream discourse or at least the realm of the conceivable. You can't bloat a modest republic into a crapulent empire without sparking one hell of a centrifugal reaction. The prospect of breaking away from a union degenerating into imperial putrefaction will only grow in appeal as we go marching with our Patriot Acts and National Security Strategies through Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and all the frightful signposts on our road to nowhere.
Who the Hell is Supporting Donald Trump?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Somehow the Trump shell game has gained followers. So the question is now, who the hell are these people voting for Trump?
Winter Soldier 2008
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
More than 250 veterans and military families gathered from March 13-15 outside Washington, DC for the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) Winter Soldier Investigation: Iraq and Afghanistan. Videos of their testimony on their experiences are posted at www.IVAW.org.
Workplace Democracy
A Guide to Workplace Ownership, Participation, and Self-Management Experiments in the US and Europe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
The WTO's Nude World Order
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
It got intoxicating that Tuesday (Nov. 30, `99) in Seattle, without chemical assist. That capitalist machine that has looked so mighty and irresistible, for that day was stopped and defeated. Seattle marked the emergence of the next new left, a wildly diverse and creative bunch. And they will be operating on a changing terrain, where not just corporate misbehavior but capitalism appears the problem, and can be fought.
The Year America Dissolved
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
A vision of collapse.
You Are What You Think
Markos Moulitsas' "American Taliban"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
America's main international enemy "Islamic radicalism" favors theocracy, curtails civil liberties, embraces torture, represses women, reviles homosexuality, subverts science and education, and reveres force over diplomacy. Markos Moulitsas shows how the American right shares those very same traits. He argues that our domestic jihadists are a greater threat to American democracy than any Islamic terrorist.

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