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The Zany Comedy of I Love Boosters
I Love Boosters Written and directed Boots Riley Distributed by NEON I LOVE I Love Boosters. Even more zany than Boots Riley’s first feature, Sorry to Bother You (2018), it is likewise a delightful, surreal excoriation of capitalism and a celebration of the importance of…
- Against the Current, No. 245, November/December 2026
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Fighting Fascism in the Trump Era
August 24, 1983: Ken Lawrence speaking at an anti-Klan demonstration. ANTI-FASCISM HAS been essential to my political outlook since 1959, when at age 16 I read the 1943 best-selling book Under Cover: My Four Years in the Nazi Underworld of America by John Roy Carlson, the pen…
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Indian State Wages War on Citizens
Beginning as a satirial response to the elite designation of students as cockroaches, the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) is able to mobilize thousands of youth. [Massive protests erupted again in India — only months after student mobilizations forced the resignation of the…
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From Buczacz to Palestine: An Historian’s Journey
From Buczacz to Palestine: An Historian’s Journey Genocide, The Holocaust and Israel-Palestine First-Person Histories in Times of Crisis By Omer Bartov Bloomsbury Academic, 2023 and 2025. 204 pages + notes, bibliography and index, $26.56 paperback. Omer Bartov, an historian who…
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America’s Detention Nightmare
Baldwin, MI – 4 July 2025 – Activists rally against the North Lake Processing Center, reopened as the largest immigrant detention center in the Midwest. The rural facility is owned by the GEO Group and holds over 1500 immigrants detained by ICE. Photo: Jim West This interview by…
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Rosa Luxemburg’s Radical Ecology
Rosa Luxemburg’s Herbarium: Radical Ecology and the Global Plantation Edited by Claudia Horn New York: OR Books, 2026, 256 pages, $30 paper. AS THE HOLIDAY season approaches, we have been gifted with a beautiful and inspiring volume, to be savored and shared, thanks to the…
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France’s Student Eruption
Marseille students — many as young as 13 or 14 — march for the quality education they deserve. Photo: Wendy Thompson THE MOBILIZATIONS BEGAN in working-class neighborhoods, where secondary school students face a lack of resources. The decrepit state of the schools and the…
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From Movement to State Ideology
Israel: What Went Wrong? By Omer Bartov Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2026. 256 pages, $28 hardcover. ISRAEL’S DECLARATION OF Independence (1948) promised to uphold “the full social and political rights of all of its citizens without distinction of race, creed, or sex.” Initially…
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Global Heating on the Ground
Heat: A History Lessons from the Middle East for a Warming Planet by On Barak University of California Press, 2025, 338 pages, $29.95 paperback. IN THE SUMMER of 2026, some of the worst heat waves to hit the northern hemisphere have provoked hundreds of deadly wildfires in the…