Against the Current No. 237, July/August 2025
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State of the Resistance
— The Editors -
Deported? What's in a Name?
— Rachel Ida Buff -
A Detroit Story
— Dianne Feeley -
Unnecessary Deaths
— Against the Current Editorial Board -
Viewpoint on Tariffs & the World-System
— Wes Vanderburgh -
AI: Useful Tool Under Socialism, Menace Under Capitalism
— Peter Solenberger -
A Brief AI Glossary
— Peter Solenberger -
UAWD: A Necessary Ending
— Dianne Feeley -
New (Old) Crisis in Turkey
— Daniel Johnson -
India & Pakistan's Two Patterns
— Achin Vanaik -
Not a Diplomatic Visit: Ramaphosa Grovels in Washington
— Zabalaza for Socialism -
Nikki Giovanni, Loved and Remembered
— Kim D. Hunter - The Middle East Crisis
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Toward an Axis of the Plutocrats
— Juan Cole - War on Education
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Trump's War on Free Speech & Higher Ed
— Alan Wald -
Reflections: The Political Moment in Higher Education
— Leila Kawar - Reviews
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A Full Accounting of American History
— Brian Ward -
The Early U.S. Socialist Movement
— Lyle Fulks -
How De Facto Segregation Survives
— Malik Miah -
Detroit Public Schools Today
— Dianne Feeley -
To Tear Down the Empire
— Maahin Ahmed -
Genocide in Perspective
— David Finkel -
Shakespeare in the West Bank
— Norm Diamond -
Questions on Revolution & Care in Contradictory Times
— Sean K. Isaacs -
End-Times Comic Science Fiction
— Frann Michel
Dianne Feeley
A DETROIT HIGH school student, Maykol Bogoya Duarte (18), was just three credits away from graduating from Western High School when he was pulled over on his way to an end-of-the-year field trip.
Metro Detroit police called Customs and Border Protection, and he was quickly detained, sent first to a detention center in the Upper Peninsula, and then to another center on the western end of the state.
He and his mother came to Detroit a year and a half ago and applied for asylum. However they were turned down and therefore became undocumented.
Along with his mother, his ESL teachers organized support within the teachers union and community. At the June Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) meeting, 20 people who spoke during the open comment period called on the board to demand a stay of deportation so he could graduate with his high school classmates. DPSC issued a statement that night.
Despite support from several unions, the school board and local public officials, ICE turned the request down. Maykol Duarte was deported back to Colombia — but his teachers are developing a program that will enable him to graduate.
July-August 2025, ATC 237