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Dissecting Trump’s ugly, evil bill
Peter Solenberger
Posted July 28, 2025
Donald Trump signed his One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) on July 4, the day after Congress narrowly adopted it. The July 1 Senate vote was 51 to 50, with Vice President JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote. The July 3 House vote to concur was 218 to 214.
The votes were mostly along party lines, with all Democrats voting “no,” most Republicans voting “yes,” and a handful of Republicans joining the Democrats to vote “no” — from the left because they thought the cuts were too severe…
A Major Change – The Anti-Imperialist Struggle Gains Strength Against Attacks from Trump and His Far-Right Allies on Brazil
Israel Dutra
Posted July 26, 2025
In recent hours, Bolsonaro’s legal situation has worsened, with a warrant authorizing searches of his properties, the imposition of an electronic ankle monitor, a ban on social media access, and other precautionary measures in response to his alleged conspiracy with Trump. — Revista Movimento
Brazil’s political landscape has undergone a significant shift in the past two weeks, marking a qualitative change in national political dynamics. What began as a crisis triggered by the majority…
Milwaukee Parents Demand Comprehensive Solution to Lead Crisis
Mike McCallister
Posted July 25, 2025
It’s been seven months since several children became poisoned by lead paint accumulating in the windowsills of a half-dozen very old Milwaukee public schools. Parents and other community members are organizing to protect the children.
Milwaukee has many schools that are more than a century old. The seven schools closed for lead issues were built in the period from 1886 to 1927. Nearly half of the Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) buildings were built before 1978, when lead paint was banned from US…
“Atlanticist Liberalism Can Never Recover from Its Present Agony”
interview with Gilbert Achcar
Posted July 23, 2025
LAST MONTH SAQI Books published Gilbert Achcar‘s new book The Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective. Labour Hub interviewed the author about the book and the political events that gave rise to it.
Labour Hub: Fifteen years ago, you wrote: “No national strategy in confronting the Zionist state is possible….
Beyond “No Kings”
Paul Le Blanc & John Meehan
Posted July 19, 2025
The following conversation between John Meehan and Paul Le Blanc took place in Dublin on Friday 20th of June 2025. It first appeared (undated) on Tomás Ó Flatharta.Com . It is now reproduced on Communis with the authorization of both Meehan and Le Blanc, in a revised and expanded form, followed by an addendum by Paul Le Blanc, commenting on the partial and yet transcendent victory of the Zohran Mamdani Mayoral campaign in New York City.
From anti-Trumpism to socialist policies…
Trump’s first six months: A threat to our planet and its peoples
Executive Bureau of the Fourth International
Posted July 18, 2025
The election of Trump represents the coming to power of a neofascist leadership in the main imperialist country of the world, who is actively fueling the genocide of the Palestinian people. This represents a further shift to the right in the international balance of forces, and strengthens the Orbans, Modis, Melonis, Bolsanaros and others.
Since assuming office on January 19, 2025, after winning a close election with a plurality of the popular vote, the Trump presidency has…
Building a global movement against genocide in Palestine
Executive Bureau of the Fourth International
Posted July 18, 2025
A global movement of solidarity has emerged in response to the barbarity of the new genocide against the Palestinian people. Despite intense repression, this movement is bringing together millions across the world.
For 77 years, imperialists have been trying to destroy and drive out the Palestinian people, exploiting the horrific genocide of the Jews in World War II to justify dispossession, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. Since October 2023, Israel has been trying to destroy…
The First Phase of the Mamdani Campaign
Howie Hawkins
Posted July 17, 2025
THIS ARTICLE IS a slightly edited section from “Independent Political Action Under Trump” that appeared in Counterpunch, July 8, 2025.
What About Zohran Mamdani?
Zohran Mamdani’s win in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor on June 24, 2025 is being hailed by advocates of organizing progressive politics inside the Democratic Party. They say it shows that their strategy of running on the DP line is a winning strategy….
Free the Children! End the Starvation and Genocide!
Ukraine Solidarity Network (US)
Posted July 7, 2025
INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’s DAY is June 1 in Ukraine, Russia, and 47 other countries. This Children’s Day, the Ukraine Solidarity Network (US) calls for the freedom and return of the tens of thousands of Ukrainian children whom Russia has kidnapped and for ending the mass starvation of millions of children in Palestine, Sudan, and other sites of widespread child hunger such as Haiti, South Sudan, and Mali….
Contradictions without Dialectics: Debating Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education
Harvey J. Graff & Sean Kamperman
Posted June 29, 2025
Against the Current is opening a discussion in our pages, and online, on the challenges and dangers as well as the potential represented by Artificial Intelligence (AI). Our July-August issue (ATC 237) will include an AI-for-beginners article by Peter Solenberger to initiate the coverage. Among the arenas of the AI debate is its controversial role in higher education. The authors of the following piece urge us not to fall into a binary pro-or-con attitude about AI in the academy……
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Against the Current
- State of the Resistance—The Editors
- Deported? What’s in a Name?—Rachel Ida Buff
- AI: Useful Tool or Menace?—Peter Solenberger
- Trump’s War on Free Speech & Higher Ed—Alan Wald
- Reflections: The Political Moment in Higher Ed—Leila Kawar
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