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
Actors' Strike Vs. Hollywood & TV Shows Achieves Victory
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
Death, Abuse and Super-exploitation of Children on Rise
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
Health Care Battles in a Post-COVID World
Henrietta Lacks Stolen Cancer Cells Expose Medical Racism
Hollywood, NY WGA Strike: “There Is No Industry Without Writers”
India’s Modi Receives Royal Treatment from Biden
Michigan Militia Terror Plot and the Election: What Does It Mean?
New Wave of “Stop the killing” Protests
Opening the Door Wider to Jim Crow Laws?
Republicans Step up Racist, Anti-democratic Attacks
Republicans Target Trans, Gender-Diverse people
Starbucks: Supreme Court rules 8-1 for Union Busting
Supreme Court Outlaws Affirmative Action, Falsely Claiming the U.S. Is a ‘Color Blind’ Society
Targeting Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Higher Education
The “Tennessee Three:” For Democracy, Against Gun Violence
The Significance of “Uncommitted” Vote in Michigan
Three Palestinian Students Shot in Vermont
U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Jim Crow
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
Why Many Blacks Turn on Biden Over Palestine
Sonya Massey Killed by Illinois Police
Against the Current No. 232, September/October 2024
Behind the Baltimore Bridge Collapse
Against the Current No. 231, July/August 2024
Profits Trump Public Safety
Against the Current No. 230, May/June 2024
Leader in a Time of Change
Against the Current No. 229, March/April 2024
King's Real View of Malcolm X
Against the Current No. 229, March/April 2024
Door Opens to Return of Jim Crow
Against the Current No. 228, January/February 2024
The Testing of America: Birmingham 1963
Against the Current No. 227, November/December 2023
Supreme Court Outlaws Affirmative Action
Against the Current No. 226, September/October 2023
Supreme Court Denies Black Voting in Mississippi
Against the Current No. 226, September/October 2023
Cruelty at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Against the Current No. 225, July/August 2023
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