Malik Miah is a retired aviation mechanic, union and antiracist activist. He is an advisory editor of Against the Current.
A Question That Answers Itself
A Weapon vs. White Domestic Terrorists: Anti-Klan Act of 1871
Afghanistan: Taliban Victory the Product of US-NATO Intervention
Behind "100% Preventable” Rail Disaster: Anti-worker Deregulation, Corporate greed
Biden Claims "Success" While Resistance Grows inside Afghanistan
Black Workers Sue Tesla Over Systemic Racism
BLM stands with #EndSARS movement in Nigeria
Chauvin Trial -- One Battle Won, the War for Justice Continues
Cop Shoots Jacob Blake: Kenosha Intensifies Racial Reckoning
Eileen Gu: Gold Medals at Olympics -- Anti-China Backlash at Home
Elijah McClain's Murder: Mother, Racial Justice Movement Win Indictments
Five Memphis Police Indicted for Murder
Harry Belafonte -- A Life of Fighting Racism and Oppression
Hollywood, NY WGA Strike: “There Is No Industry Without Writers”
Michigan Militia Terror Plot and the Election: What Does It Mean?
Republicans Step up Racist, Anti-democratic Attacks
Republicans Target Trans, Gender-Diverse people
The “Tennessee Three:” For Democracy, Against Gun Violence
United States: The Racist War on Terror after 9/11
Uvalde Mass Shooting Exposes Violence of Gun Culture & Endemic Racism
Vigilantes Given Green Light to Kill: Rittenhouse Is Acquitted
What Juneteenth Means in the Battle for Equality
In Defense of Being Awake
Against the Current, No. 224, May/June 2023
Killings by Police Rose in 2022
Against the Current, No. 223, March/April 2023
George Floyd, A Life
Against the Current, No. 222, January/February 2023
Detroit Police Kill -- Again
Against the Current, No. 221, November/December 2022
California's Reparations Task Force
Against the Current, No. 220, September/October 2022
The "Bruce's Beach"
Against the Current, No. 220, September/October 2022
Three Mothers Who Shaped a Nation
Against the Current, No. 219, July/August 2022
"Nationtime": The Black Political Convention
Against the Current, No. 218, May/June 2022
bell hooks -- Fiery Black Feminist
Against the Current, No. 217, March/April 2022
Why Critical Race Theory Is Important
Against the Current, No. 216, January-February 2022
Crime Scene at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Against the Current, No. 215, November/December 2021
Confronting Voter Suppression
Against the Current No. 214, September/October 2021
Palestinian Americans Take the Lead
Against the Current No. 213, July/August 2021
Conviction on All Three Counts in Chauvin Trial, Bail Revoked
Against the Current No. 212, May/June 2021
Bringing Malcolm to Life
Against the Current No. 212, May/June 2021
Health Care Inequalities, Racism and Death
Against the Current No. 211, March/April 2021
New Challenges for African Americans
Against the Current No. 210, January/February 2021
The American Caste System
Against the Current No. 210, January/February 2021
The U.S. Criminal Legal System
Against the Current No. 209, November/December 2020
"Good Trouble, Necessary Trouble"
Against the Current No. 208, September/October 2020
C.T. Vivian, Organizer and Teacher
Against the Current No. 208, September/October 2020
U.S. Erupts with Mass Protests
Against the Current, No. 207, July/August 2020
White Supremacy Symbols Falling
Against the Current, No. 207, July/August 2020
Virus Is Color Blind, Not Humans
Against the Current, No. 206, May/June 2020
"Not racist" vs. "Antiracist"
Against the Current, No. 204, January/February 2020
The Central Park Five Frameup
Against the Current, No. 202, September/October 2019
MLK in Memphis, 1968
Against the Current, No. 199, March/April 2019
Nationalism, Patriotism, Hate Crimes
Against the Current, No. 198, January/February 2019
The Constitutional Root of Racism
Against the Current, No. 197, November/December 2018
Architects of Mass Slaughter
Against the Current, No. 197, November/December 2018
Two Powerful Films on Indonesian Mass Terror
Against the Current, No. 197, November/December 2018
The White World and Black Reality
Against the Current, No. 196, September/October 2018
A New COINTELPRO?
Against the Current, No. 195, July/August 2018
African Americans and Immigrant Workers
Against the Current, No. 194, May/June 2018
The New Poor People's Campaign
Against the Current, No. 193, March/April 2018
Black Nationalism, Black Solidarity
Against the Current, No. 192, January/February 2018
White Supremacy/Identity Politics
Against the Current, No. 191, November/December 2017
Choices Facing African Americans
Against the Current, No. 190, September/October 2017
Detroit's Rebellion at Fifty
Against the Current, No. 189, July/August 2017
Learn from Malcolm X
Against the Current, No. 188, May/June 2017
Making Trump's America Ungovernable
Against the Current, No. 187, March/April 2017
Obama's Legacy & the Rise of Trump
Against the Current, No. 186, January/February 2017
Institutional Racism & the Thirteenth Amendment
Against the Current, No. 185, November/December 2016
BLM Movement Grows Stronger
Against the Current, No. 184, September/October 2016
Muhammad Ali: Free Black Man
Against the Current, No. 183, July-August 2016
Why Blacks Vote for "Pragmatism"
Against the Current, No. 182, May/June 2016
Making Race Disappear
Against the Current, No. 181, March/April 2016
Bigotry vs. Black Lives, Muslims, Immigrants
Against the Current, No. 180, January/February 2016
Chicago Coverup and Upsurge
Against the Current, No. 180, January/February 2016
BLM: A Movement and Its Critics
Against the Current, No. 179, November/December 2015
Why Black Lives Matter Is Game Change
Against the Current, No. 178, September/October 2015
Police Violence in the Spotlight
Against the Current, No. 177, July/August 2015
The Murder of Walter Scott
Against the Current, No. 176, May/June 2015
Pushing Back Civil Rights
Against the Current, No. 175, March/April 2015
Whose Lives Matter in America?
Against the Current, No. 174, January/February 2015
African-American Self-Defense
Against the Current, No. 174, January/February 2015
Why a Killer Cop Is Not Arrested
Against the Current, No. 173, November/December 2014
Ferguson on Center Stage
Against the Current, No. 172, September/October 2014
Racism Refusing to Go Away
Against the Current, No. 171, July/August 2014
The Minimum Wage Debate
Against the Current, No. 170, May/June 2014
It's War on the Poor
Against the Current, No. 169, March/April 2014
Freedom Now Vision Unfinished
Against the Current, No. 168, January/February 2014
Obama, African Americans and War on the Working Poor
Against the Current, No. 167, November/December 2013
Two Americas -- Where Racism Lives
Against the Current, No. 166, September/October 2013
Austerity Is Not Colorblind
Against the Current, No. 165, July/August 2013
Immigration and Racial Bias
Against the Current, No. 164, May/June 2013
Lincoln, Django and Abolitionism
Against the Current, No. 163, March/April 2013
African Americans Ignored in the Age of Obama
Against the Current, No. 162, January/February 2013
Final Blow to Affirmative Action?
Against the Current, No. 161, November/December 2012
Why Race Matters in the 2012 Elections
Against the Current, No. 160, September/October 2012
Invaluable History and Important Lessons
Against the Current, No. 160, September/October 2012
Rolling Back Reconstruction
Against the Current, No. 159, July/August 2012
The Murder of Trayvon Martin
Against the Current, No. 158, May/June 2012
Who Speaks for the 99%
Against the Current, No. 157, March / April 2012
A Convergence of Realities
Against the Current, No. 156, January/February 2012
The Obama Reality Disconnect
Against the Current, No. 155, November/December 2011
Evolution not "Reinvention": Manning Marable's Malcolm X
Against the Current, No. 154, September/October 2011
A Whiff of Jim Crow
Against the Current, No. 153, July/August 2011
The Attack on American Muslims
Against the Current, No. 152, May/June 2011
Whither Social Security?
Against the Current, No. 151, March/April 2011
Prospects for African Americans
Against the Current, No. 150, January/February 2011
Race and Class: What About the Working Poor?
Against the Current, No. 149, November/December 2010
How Race Fuels Rightist Agenda
Against the Current, No. 148, September/October 2010
Arizona's Racial Profiling Push
Against the Current, No. 147, July/August 2010
Race & Class: Obama & the Politics of Protest
Against the Current, No. 146, May/June 2010
Race & Class: Obama Forgets Black Community
Against the Current, No. 145, March/April 2010
Race and Class: Blacks Still Taking the Hit
Against the Current, No. 144, January/February 2010
Right-Wing Assault, Liberal Retreat
Against the Current, No. 143, November/December 2009
Race and Class: African Americans in a Sick System
Against the Current, No. 142, September/October 2009
Race and Class: The Agenda of Pure Racism
Against the Current, No. 141, July/August 2009
The NAACP at 100
Against the Current, No. 140, May/June 2009
John Hope Franklin's Message
Against the Current, No. 140, May/June 2009
Race and Class: Downturn Undermines Black "Middle Class"
Against the Current, No. 139, March/April 2009
What Obama's Victory Means About Race and Class
Against the Current, No. 138, January/February 2009
The Financial Calamity, Blacks and Obama
Against the Current, No. 137, November/December 2008
The Elephant in the Room
Against the Current, No. 136, September/October 2008
Socialists and Barack Obama
Against the Current, No. 135, July/August 2008
Reverend Wright and Black Liberation Theology
Against the Current, No. 134, May/June 2008
A Union Defeated at United Air Lines
Against the Current, No. 134, May/June 2008
Voter ID Laws, Voter Fraud
Against the Current, No. 133, March/April 2008
Response to George Fish
Against the Current, No. 133, March/April 2008
Obama and "I Have a Dream" in 2008
Against the Current, No. 132, January/February 2008
Race and Class: What the Jena 6 Case Shows
Against the Current, No. 131, November/December 2007
Race and Class: Rolling Back Integration
Against the Current, No. 130, September/October 2007
Race and Class: Facing the New Backlash
Against the Current, No. 129, July/August 2007
Race and Class: What Is "Black Enough"?
Against the Current, No. 128, May/June 2007
Race and Class: Segregation Coming Back?
Against the Current, No. 127, March/April 2007
Racism and "Colorblind" Society
Against the Current, No. 126, January/February 2007
Racist Undercurrents in the "War on Terror"
Against the Current, No. 125, November/December 2006
Legalize Free Movement of Labor: Viewing A National Debate
Against the Current, No. 123, July/August 2006
Plight of Young Black Men: The Scars and the Crisis
Against the Current, No. 122, May/June 2006
New Strategy and Tactics for Labor in the Airlines: Beyond Bankruptcy
Against the Current, No. 121, March/April 2006
Race and Class: Paris to New Orleans
Against the Current, No. 120, January/February 2006
The Northwest Strike: Acid Test for Labor
Against the Current, No. 119, November/December 2005
The NAACP's Future
Against the Current, No. 118, September/October 2005
Pension Terminations
Against the Current, No. 117, July/August 2005
Rebellions and Black Wealth
Against the Current, No. 116, May/June 2005
Airline Bankruptcies & Workers' Control
Against the Current, No. 114, January/February 2005
A Victory on Pension at IBM
Against the Current, No. 113, November/December 2004
The Pension Crisis
Against the Current, No. 112, September/October 2004
Race and Class: Brown v. Board of Education 50 Years Later
Against the Current, No. 111, July/August 2004
Outsourcing & the Unions
Against the Current, No. 110, May/June 2004
Martin Luther King's Speech on Vietnam
Against the Current, No. 109, March/April 2004
Black Voters in 2004
Against the Current, No. 108, January/February 2004
The Defeat of Prop 54
Against the Current, No. 107, November/December 2003
Race and Class: Diversity or Equality?
Against the Current, No. 106, September/October 2003
Mechanics' Victory at United Airlines
Against the Current, No. 106, September/October 2003
Black America and the Iraq War
Against the Current, No. 104, May/June 2003
Race and Class: Defending Affirmative Action
Against the Current, No. 103, March/April 2003
United Airlines' Unfriendly Skies
Against the Current, No. 102, January/February 2003
Imperialism, Sovereignty and "Just Wars"
Against the Current, No. 101, November/December 2002
The Battle of the Docks
Against the Current, No. 101, November/December 2002
Race and Class: Cops and Videotapes
Against the Current, No. 100, September/October 2002
Race and Class: The Color-Blind Myth
Against the Current, No. 99, July/August 2002
Race and Class: Terrorism, Racism, Patriotism
Against the Current, No. 98, May/June 2002
Race and Class: Why Black Patriotism?
Against the Current, No. 97, March/April 2002
Our Enemy Is at Home
Against the Current, No. 96, January/February 2002
Indonesia: The Old Order Reviving
Against the Current, No. 95, November/December 2001
U.S. Labor as Collateral Damage
Against the Current, No. 95, November/December 2001
Race and Class: Israel's Apartheid Reality
Against the Current, No. 94, September/October 2001
Asian Americans and "Pearl Harbor"
Against the Current, No. 93, July/August 2001
The Politics of Islam, Indonesia's Ruling Elite and Democracy
Against the Current, No. 92, May/June 2001
Thieving Sons of Bushes
Against the Current, No. 91, March/April 2001
Race and Class: The Stolen Vote
Against the Current, No. 90, January/ February 2001
The Case for Reparations
Against the Current, No. 89, November/ December 2000
Race and Class: The Wealth Gap
Against the Current, No. 88, September/ October 2000
Where Is Indonesia Going?
Against the Current, No. 87, July/August 2000
Race and Class: What Counts in the Census?
Against the Current, No. 86, May/June 2000
Behind the Confederate Flag Controversy: The Unfinished Civil War
Against the Current, No. 85, March/April 2000
Racial Capitalism and the "Digital Divide"
Against the Current, No. 84, January/February 2000
East Timor and Indonesia's Political Explosion
Against the Current, No. 83, November/December 1999
Race and Class: Busing and Integration, 1975-99
Against the Current, No. 82, September/October 1999
Race and Politics: Profiling and DWB
Against the Current, No. 81, July/August 1999
Race and Politics: Indonesia's Ethnic Conflicts
Against the Current, No. 80, May/June 1999
Race and Politics: Blacks in Corporate America
Against the Current, No. 79, March/April 1999
Race and Politics
Against the Current, No. 78, January/February 1999
Race and Politics: A Color-Blind America?
Against the Current, No. 77, November/December 1998
Indonesia Update: An Economic Titanic
Against the Current, No. 76, September/October 1998
Rejoinder: The Dynamics of Revolution
Against the Current, No. 76, September/October 1998
Indonesia's Unfolding Democratic Revolution
Against the Current, No. 75, July/August 1998
Suharto's Days Are Numbered: Protests, Riots Rise as Clinton and IMF Back Dictator's Regime
Against the Current, No. 73, March/April 1998
Repression and Revival: Revolutionary Prospects for Indonesia, Part 2
Against the Current, No. 72, January/February 1998
Revolutionary Prospects for Indonesia
Against the Current, No. 71, November/December 1997
Class and the African-American Leadership Crisis
Against the Current, No. 63, July/August 1996
The Firing of Ben Chavis
Against the Current, No. 53, November/December 1994
Cornel West's Race Matters
Against the Current, No. 50, May/June 1994