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AGAINST THE CURRENT NO. 233, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2024


 * Election and Widening War
   — The Editors
 * Beyond Reality: On a Century of Surrealism
   — Alexander Billet
 * Harris, Trump, or Neither? Arab & Muslim Voters’ Anger Grows
   — Malik Miah
 * Discussing the Climate Crisis: Dubious Notions & False Paths
   — Michael Löwy
 * Repression of Russian Left Activists
   — Ivan Petrov
 * Political Zombies: Devouring the Chinese People
   — Lok Mui Lok
 * Nicaragua Today: "Purgers, Corruption, & Servility to Putin"
   — Dora María Téllez
 * Labour's "Loveless Landslide": The 2024 British Elections
   — Kim Moody
 * Chicano, Angeleno and Trotskyist -- A Lifetime of Militancy
   — Alvaro Maldonado interviewed by Promise Li
 * Joe Sacco: Comics for Palestine
   — Hank Kennedy
 * Essay on Labor Organizing
 * The UAW and Southern Organizing: An Historical Perspective
   — Joseph van der Naald & Michael Goldfield
 * Reviews
 * On the Boundary of Genocide: A Film and Its Controversies
   — Frann Michel
 * Queering China in a Chinese World
   — Peter Drucker
 * Abolition, Ethnic Cleansing, or Both? Antinomies of the U.S. Founders
   — Joel Wendland-Liu
 * Emancipation from Racism
   — Giselle Gerolami
 * The Labor of Health Care
   — Ted McTaggart
 * In Pristine or Troubled Waters?
   — Steve Wattenmaker
 * In Memoriam
 * Ellen Spence Poteet, 1960-2024
   — Alan Wald


AN APPEAL


— THE EDITORS

WE’RE WRITING THIS appeal shortly before the November 5 U.S. election. We don’t
know what the outcome will be, or what kind of confrontations or chaos might
follow if the results are delayed or disputed. As we follow these events both on
our website and in our print editions, we know that fundamental issues will
remain unresolved: the genocide in Gaza and Israel’s expanding war in Lebanon,
spreading climate catastrophes, looming imperialist conflicts and attacks on
democratic rights...




ELECTION AND WIDENING WAR


— THE EDITORS

The National Arab American convention, sponsored by the American-Arab
Anti-Discriminaton Committee, heard from this panel of former Biden
Administration officials discussing why they resigned over U.S. support for
Israel's war in Gaza. www.jimwestphoto.com

WITH WAR AND genocide spreading from Palestine to Lebanon and Iran, with Florida
and southern states inundated by the twin biggest climate-change flood disasters
in U.S. history, and people’s general insecurity about their own and the
country’s future, the United States lurches toward what’s called “the most
consequential election in our lifetime” that may resolve little or nothing.

The outcome isn’t known as Against the Current goes to press a couple weeks
before November 5, but will be shortly after or before this issue reaches our
subscribers....




THE ANTISEMITISM SCARE: GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED


— ALAN WALD

October 28 Symposium at U-M in defense of Professor Maura Finkelstein. From
left, Alan Wald, Rebekah Modrak and Maura Finkelstein. Photo: Charles H.F. Davis
III

INTRODUCTION: As we enter a new political landscape following the election of
Donald Trump, resistance to Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza and its bellicose
military actions in the region takes on a greater urgency than ever before--even
as political repression on US campuses intensifies....




FROM ATC AUTHORS AND FRIENDS


MAZAN, FRANCE: RAPE AS A POLITICAL FACT


— AURÉLIE-ANNE THOS

September 14th demonstration in Paris of 10,000 in support for Gisèle Pelicot.

WOMEN START QUEUEING at 6AM at the courthouse in Mazan, France so they can
support Gisèle Pelicot at the open trial she requested. This rape case has
caught international attention because it so perfectly illustrates how many men
feel they are entitled to women’s bodies. This continuous outpouring of support
demonstrates the determination of women to publicize and end the dehumanization
women face the world over.--The Editors....




“PROGRESSING BY GRASSROOTS NETWORKS”


— POSLE MEDIA INTERVIEWS CATHERINE SAMARY

HOW DOES THE left in France confront the global “right-wing” turn? Can leftist
organizations supporting Ukraine develop a common strategy? Researcher and
longtime activist Catherine Samary discusses the role of the left in today’s
French politics for Posle Media.

Posle: Before we turn to the discussion of the war in Ukraine and prospects for
left internationalism, let’s talk about the recent developments in your home
country. How do you analyse the current political situation in France and the
role that left-wing politics might play in it?...




CONFERENCE IN HONOR OF BORIS KAGARLITSKY: IMPERIALISM(S) PANEL


— ROBERT BRENNER, ILYA MATVEEV & HANNA PEREKHODA

Boris Kagarlitsky in court.

Free Boris Kagarlitsky and all anti-war political prisoners in the Russian
Federation!

A message from Boris Kagarlitsky, November 14, 2024

Suzi Weissman: Welcome to Jacobin Radio. I'm your host, Suzi Weissman. On
October 8th, the Boris Kagarlitsky International Solidarity Campaign held an
online conference on “Boris Kagarlitsky and the Challenges of the Left.”
Although Kagarlitsky is serving a five-year sentence in a Russian penal colony,
he has just published a book called The Long Retreat: Strategies to Reverse the
Decline of the Left....




BOEING WORKERS SETTLE SEVEN-WEEK STRIKE


— MALIK MIAH

IAM Local 251 strikers and supporters on the picket line. Photo from IAM
District 251 facebook page



UPDATE: LEADERS OF THE International Association of Machinists and Aerospace
Workers (IAMAW) District 751 in Seattle said 59% of members who cast ballots
November 4 agreed to approve the fourth formal offer (and the third put to a
vote). It ended a seven-week strike. The October 31 deal was backed by the union
leadership.

“It’s time for us to come together. This is a victory,” IAM District 751
President Jon Holden told members....




THE PATH TO VICTORY & THE TASKS OF THE UKRAINIAN LEFT


— SOTSIALNYI RUKH

ONE OF THE key decisions of the Social Movement (Sotsialnyi Rukh) conference,
which took place in Kyiv on October 5-6, 2024, was the adoption of the
resolution, “The path to victory and the tasks of the Ukrainian left.” Below is
the text of the resolution:...




REMARKS AT THE BORIS KAGARLITSKY CONFERENCE, OCTOBER 8, 2024


— BILL FLETCHER, JR.

Free Boris Kagarlitsky and all anti-war political prisoners in the Russian
Federation!

A message from Boris Kagarlitsky, November 14, 2024



GREETINGS AND MY profound thanks for the honor of participating in and
addressing today’s conference, celebrating the work of comrade Boris Kagarlitsky
and acting in solidarity with the comrade in his fight for freedom. A fight, I
should say, not only for his own freedom, but a fight for freedom against the
forces of authoritarianism and 21st century fascism.

In twenty minutes, it is impossible to address all or most of the features of
Kagarlitsky’s The Long Retreat. Let me start by saying that this work is
brilliant, sobering and, in some important respects, problematic....




JUSTICE NOT EVICTIONS


— JOHN ZETTNER

> We Live Here
> Detroit Eviction Defense and the Battle for Housing Justice
> by Jeffrey Wilson and Bambi Kramer
> Seven Stories Press, 2024, 238 pages, $16.95 paperback; ebook $10.



WILSON AND KRAMER’s graphic story highlights the victorious struggles of several
homeowners, providing a glimpse into the economic crisis in Detroit and its
resistance by the community. The tsunami came to the city earler than the
country's 2008 meltdown and stayed longer.

The group of activists that became DED came out of the 2011 Occupy Detroit
encampment. Their own eviction from the grounds of the historic public square,
Grand Circus Park, came after 60 days of taking back the public space and a lot
of political dialogue. ...




MARX REDUX


— SCOTT MCLEMEE

Scott McLemee interviews Paul Reitter, translator of a new English edition of
Marx’s Capital.

IN EARLY 1845, a young and precariously employed holder of a Ph.D. in philosophy
named Karl Marx signed a contract with a German publisher for a book, in two
volumes, on political economy. He had already filled notebooks with extracts
from his studies in the field, and at the time likely felt like he was already
reasonably far along on the project. But his publisher canceled the contract two
years later, in part on the grounds that Marx rejected the suggestion to write
with an eye to avoid provoking the authorities....




FREE KHALIDA JARRAR, END THE GLOBAL PRISON-INDUSTRIAL GENOCIDE


— PALESTINIAN FEMINIST COLLECTIVE

The Palestinian Feminist Collective demands the immediate and unconditional
freedom of Palestinian political prisoner, feminist activist and scholar, and
revolutionary leader, Khalida Jarrar, who teaches us that “hope in prison is
like a flower that grows out of stone.”

Jarrar has been held in captivity by the settler-state for more than six years
over the course of five imprisonments and is currently held captive in zionist
dungeons without charge since December 26, 2023. She now faces her greatest
challenge: the brutal conditions of solitary confinement. On August 12, 2024,
the colonial zionist prison authorities transferred her from Damon Prison in
occupied Haifa to Neve Tirza prison in occupied al-Ramlah, where she is enduring
inhumane conditions in complete isolation....




FOR A BIT OF AIR, KHALIDA JARRAR, PALESTINIAN LAWMAKER LIES DOWN ON THE FLOOR


— GIDEON LEVY

AT THE END of 2023 Palestinian lawyer and activist Khalida Jarrar was arrested
by the Israeli police and jailed without charges. Placed in administrative
detention, she has had the charges renewed for another six months. Given her
health problems, her husband, Ghassan Jarrar, is concerned about her well being.

The Palestinian Feminist Movement is campaigning to have the charges against her
dismissed. This story, by Gideon Levy, is from the August 30, 2024 edition of
Haaretz.--The ATC editors....




RECOVERING EUGENE POTTIER: THE “INTERNATIONALE” AND ITS COMMUNARD LYRICIST


— PAUL BUHLE

> Beyond the Internationale:
> Revolutionary Writings by Eugene Pottier, Communard
> Edited and Translated by Loren Kruger
> Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Company, 2023,
> 150pp. $17 paperback.

BACK IN MY days of teaching U.S. history, I would pull out a tape recording made
by an ancient friend, an erstwhile Trotskyist living out his last years outside
Seattle, his singing in Yiddish with a piano accompaniment....




THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF CHINA’S RISE?


— FEDERICO FUENTES INTERVIEWS AU LOONG-YU


AN INTERVIEW WITH AU LOONG-YU, PART II

Lunchtime in Guangzhou, China.

AU LOONG-YU IS A long-time Hong Kong labour rights and political activist.
Author of China’s Rise: Strength and Fragility and Hong Kong in Revolt: The
Protest Movement and the Future of China, Au now lives in exile. Speaking with
Federico Fuentes for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, Au
discusses the factors that fueled China’s phenomenal economic rise, how they
have begun to exhaust themselves, and the significance of the White Paper
movement, which he argues heralds a new period in Chinese politics.

This is the second interview in a two-part series. The first interview covered
the nature of China’s state,...




RECALLING THE ITU: A MILITANT & DEMOCRATIC UNION


— LINDA KERTH

Notice the dial on the top right on the TTS. This was critical in justifying
each line of type. Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and
Computation, https://www.smecc.org/teletypes_in_typesetting.htm.

IN 1962, AS a young and rather aimless woman, I was hired by the Oakland Tribune
to learn typesetting on the TTS — TeleTypeSetting machine — which attached a
misbegotten contraption to a keyboard that punched holes into a sturdy ribbon.
The ribbon was later fed into a similar misbegotten contraption on a Linotype,
where it was set into actual type. That poor baby did not live long.

I thought it would be “exciting” to work in a newspaper. And indeed it was. I
don’t recall what I earned in former jobs as a typist, but I can tell you I
earned a lot more as a printer!...




JUDICIAL HARASSMENT VS. TOOMAJ SALEHI CONTINUES

Toomaj Salehi (Photo by Hosseinronaghi / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED)

ALTHOUGH THIS JUNE the Iranian Supreme Court overturned the death sentence for
dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi (33), rather than freeing him they sent his case
back to a lower court.

Sentenced to death on April 24 for his participation in the “Woman Life Freedom”
demonstrations, he has been severely tortured. Suffering from fractures in his
hands and legs as well as an eye injury, Salehi is in solitary....




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