Against the Current, No. 216, January-February 2022
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COP26: Success Not an Option
— Daniel Tanuro -
Afghan Women: Always Resisting Empire
— Helena Zeweri and Wazhmah Osman -
Entangled Rivalry: the United States and China
— Peter Solenberger -
On Global Solidarity
— Karl Marx - #MeToo in China
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How Electric Utilities Thwart Climate Action: Politics & Power
— Isha Bhasin, M. V. Ramana & Sara Nelson -
Ending Michigan's Inhumane Policy
— Efrén Paredes, Jr. -
Oupa Lehulere, Renowned South African Marxist
— James Kilgore -
Reproductive Justice Under the Gun
— Dianne Feeley - Save Julian Assange!
- The Horror of Oxford
- Racial Justice
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Why Critical Race Theory Is Important
— Malik Miah -
Texas in Myth and History
— Dick J. Reavis -
A City's History and Racial Capitalism
— David Helps -
Reduction to Oppression
— David McCarthy -
Protesting the Protest Novel: Richard Wright's The Man Who Lived Underground
— Alan Wald - Revolutionary Tradition
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The '60s Left Turns to Industry
— The Editors -
My Life as a Union Activist
— Rob Bartlett -
Working 33 Years in an Auto Plant
— Wendy Thompson - Reviews
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Michael Ratner, Legal Warrior
— Matthew Clark -
The Turkish State Today
— Daniel Johnson
Karl Marx
KARL MARX CONCLUDES the 1864 Inaugural Address of the International Working Men’s Association (the First International) by saying:
“If the emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal concurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy in pursuit of criminal designs, playing upon national prejudices, and squandering in piratical wars the people’s blood and treasure?
“[The actions of the ruling classes] have taught the working classes the duty to master themselves the mysteries of international politics; to watch the diplomatic acts of their respective governments; to counteract them, if necessary, by all means in their power; when unable to prevent, to combine in simultaneous denunciations, and to vindicate the simple laws of morals and justice, which ought to govern the relations of private individuals, as the rules paramount of the intercourse of nations.
“The fight for such a foreign policy forms part of the general struggle for the emancipation of the working classes.”
January-February 2022, ATC 216