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
JUST AS JOE Biden wrapped up his “Democracy Summit” and called for protecting persecuted journalists, the U.S. “Justice” Department won a British appeals court ruling for the extradition of Julian Assange on espionage charges — for publishing information on U.S. war crimes in Iraq, which the Wikileaks founder obtained by the standard means of investigative journalism.
The British judge ruled that extradition can proceed on the basis of U.S. commitments not to hold Assange in solitary confinement or a maximum-security hellhole. After 20 years of the Guantanamo prison, we pretty well know what those promises are likely to be worth.
While further appeals to Britain’s highest court continue, Assange remains locked up in a state of deteriorating mental as well as physical heath. This is a human rights emergency, as well as the assertion of a monstrous legal doctrine of U.S. extraterritorial jurisdiction over journalists — which could then be exploited by any regime on the face of the earth.
To follow the case in depth, visit https://assangedefense.org.
January-February 2022, ATC 216