Alan Wald is an editor of Against the Current and Science & Society. He is the H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor Emeritus of English Literature and American Culture at the University of Michigan. Wald is the author of a trilogy from the University of North Carolina Press about writers and Communism in the United States. He is a member of Solidarity.
Israel's West Bank Inferno & the Responsibility of Socialists
Against the Current No. 228, January/February 2024
The Red and the Queer
Against the Current No. 226, September/October 2023
The Black Internationalism of William Gardner Smith
Against the Current, No. 222, January/February 2023
Protesting the Protest Novel: Richard Wright's The Man Who Lived Underground
Against the Current, No. 216, January-February 2022
Marxism and the Modernist Poet
Against the Current No. 212, May/June 2021
On Jewish Revolutionary Internationalism
Against the Current No. 209, November/December 2020
Dead Trotskyists Society: Provocative Presence of a Difficult Past
Against the Current No. 208, September/October 2020
Introduction to H. Chandler Davis
Against the Current, No. 204, January/February 2020
100 Years of U.S. Communism
Against the Current, No. 204, January/February 2020
In Memoriam: William "Buzz" Alexander
Against the Current, No. 203, November/December 2019
A Historian's View of Post-Fascism
Against the Current, No. 201, July/August 2019
A Puzzle: George and Hilde Mosse
Against the Current, No. 201, July/August 2019
Disciplined for Acting with Integrity
Against the Current, No. 198, January/February 2019
Nicolas Calas: The Trotskyist Time Forgot
Against the Current, No. 196, September/October 2018
BDS Versus Settler-Colonialism
Against the Current, No. 195, July/August 2018
Race and the Logic of Capital
Against the Current, No. 192, January/February 2018
Franz Kafka: In His Times and Ours
Against the Current, No. 188, May/June 2017
Weaponizing Modernist Culture
Against the Current, No. 185, November/December 2016
Requiem for a Black Trotskyist
Against the Current, No. 184, September/October 2016
Fascinating Antifascism
Against the Current, No. 183, July-August 2016
Review Essay: Reaching for Revolution
Against the Current, No. 179, November/December 2015
Between the Power and the Dream
Against the Current, No. 178, September/October 2015
The Prophet Alarmed
Against the Current, No. 177, July/August 2015
Fifty Shades of Pulp
Against the Current, No. 175, March/April 2015
A Political Witch-Hunt in the Name of "Academic Freedom": In Defense of the American Studies Association
Against the Current, No. 169, March/April 2014
The Passion of Richard Seymour
Against the Current, No. 167, November/December 2013
The Indiana "Subversion" Case 50 Years Later
Against the Current, No. 165, July/August 2013
From "Triple Oppression" to "Freedom Dreams"
Against the Current, No. 162, January/February 2013
A Bend in the Labyrinth
Against the Current, No. 160, September/October 2012
Cannonite Bohemians After World War II
Against the Current, No. 159, July/August 2012
A Theater for the Poor
Against the Current, No. 155, November/December 2011
A Winter's Tale Told in Memoirs
Against the Current, No. 153, July/August 2011
Berta Langston, 1926-2010
Against the Current, No. 147, July/August 2010
The Journey of James Neugass
Against the Current, No. 143, November/December 2009
A Mandel for All Seasons
Against the Current, No. 142, September/October 2009
Reviewing Red: Love and Revolution
Against the Current, No. 140, May/June 2009
On Richard Wright's Centennial: The Great Outsider
Against the Current, No. 138, January/February 2009
B.J. Widick, 1910-2008
Against the Current, No. 136, September/October 2008
A Revolutionary Life
Against the Current, No. 129, July/August 2007
Reading Red: Art & Social Revolution
Against the Current, No. 117, July/August 2005
Understanding Genocide
Against the Current, No. 112, September/October 2004
Remembering Paul Siegel (1916-2004)
Against the Current, No. 111, July/August 2004
Women's Lives on the Left
Against the Current, No. 109, March/April 2004
Sampling New Black Radical Scholarship
Against the Current, No. 108, January/February 2004
African Americans, Culture and Communism (Part 2)
Against the Current, No. 86, May/June 2000
The Costs of McCarthyism
Against the Current, No. 85, March/April 2000
Review: African Americans, Culture and Communism
Against the Current, No. 84, January/February 2000
Michael Sprinker (1950-1999)
Against the Current, No. 83, November/December 1999
An Introduction to E. San Juan: What is Postcolonial Theory?
Against the Current, No. 77, November/December 1998
In Memory of Constance Coiner
Against the Current, No. 65, November/December 1996
Our Legacy: A Reply to Critics
Against the Current, No. 58, September/October 1995
Mapping Solzhenitsyn's Decline
Against the Current, No. 56, May/June 1995
Problems in History & Theory: The End of "American Trotskyism"? -- Part 3
Against the Current, No. 55, March/April 1995
Problems in History & Theory: The End of "American Trotskyism"? -- Part 2
Against the Current, No. 54, January/February 1995
The End of American Trotskyism? (Part 1)
Against the Current, No. 53, November/December 1994
New Works of Michael Löwy
Against the Current, No. 52, September/October 1994
African-American Communist Roots
Against the Current, No. 46, September/October 1993
Roots of Chicano Power
Against the Current, No. 33, July/August 1991
Immediate Response & Long-term Transformation
Against the Current, No. 32, May/June 1991
Tierra Amarllla Update: The Land Struggle Continues
Against the Current, No. 21, July/August 1989
Struggling vs. Theft of Communal Lands in New Mexico
Against the Current No. 19, March/April 1989
Racism and the University
Against the Current, No. 14, May/June 1988
A Life Worth Living: Benjamin Linder, 1959-87
Against the Current, No. 9, May/June 1987
Response to Stanfield Smith
Against the Current, No. 9, May/June 1987
Some Perspectives on the FSLN
Against the Current No 7, January-February 1987
In Defense of Critical Leninism
Against the Current, No 6, January/February 1987
In Tribute to "Burger's Daughter"
Against the Current, No. 3, May/June 1986