Over the past month, Pakistan-Administered Jammu and Kashmir (PAJK) have experienced one of the most significant waves of mass mobilisation in recent years. Triggered by rising electricity tariffs, increased taxation, and widespread economic hardship, the protests, which are led by the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC), have evolved into a broader movement advocating for social and economic justice through a 38-point Charter of Demands. The demonstrations have attracted participation from (…)

Rubble in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, on Thursday.Credit: Eyad Baba/AFP
In the first days after the Gaza cease-fire began, it seemed for a moment as if the curtain had finally fallen on the October 7 war. It was possible to breathe. I rejoiced that Gaza's residents would be able to breathe for a moment without fear of missiles and bombs. Granted, the disaster and the tragedy were still at their height, but at least the killing would stop.
In Israel, too, people spoke about being (…)

A feminist, anarchist, and poet living in Ukraine delivers a personal and political address to the leader of Your Party, inviting reflection on what contemporary anti-fascism and genuine strategies of solidarity with the oppressed might look like.
Dear Zarah,
Recently, several journalists and left-wing activists reached out to me asking for a comment on your position regarding the suspension of political and military support for the Ukrainian people. Whilst reflecting on how to respond, (…)

THE MURDER OF Charlie Kirk has done for the Trump 2.0 regime what the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 did for George W. Bush and company — with such disastrous consequences for the United States, Iraq, Afghanistan and the world. (See the statement by the editors of Against the Current responding to the Kirk assassination is posted at our website.)
Amidst Trump's bellicose rants about “lunatic radical leftists,” masked armed gangs called Immigration and Customs Enforcement are (…)

IN THE UNITED States' post-Constitutional twilight zone of the second Trump presidency, interlocking conflicts are converging. Neither the domestic nor global orders are any longer “rules-based” in the ways that have been previously assumed. The consequences are unpredictable but likely to be explosive.
Socialists of course are the sharpest critics of the United States' much-acclaimed constitutional order with all its entrenched anti-democratic fences. And the “rules-based international (…)