Against the Current, No. 166, September/October 2013
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Heroism Against the Machine
— The Editors -
Suited Vandals Pillage Detroit
— The Editors -
Two Americas -- Where Racism Lives
— Malik Miah -
"Calm Reflection" or Justice?
— Meleiza Figueroa -
East St. Louis As Detroit's Mirror
— Jennifer F. Hamer -
Immigration "Reform"
— The Editors -
A View from the Base
— Joaquín Bustelo -
The Case for Critical Support
— Milton Fisk -
Organizations & Leaders' Critique of S.744
— a statement by the Mexican American Political Association -
On Egypt
— an interview with Gilbert Achcar -
Can People Get What They Want?
— an interview with Gilbert Achcar -
Austerity American Style, Part 2
— Jack Rasmus -
Wadada's Suite of Liberation
— Mark Mendoza - Remembering E.P. Thompson
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Commemorating a Classic of History
— The Editors -
Recovering the Centrality of Class
— Ellen Meiksins Wood -
Remembering E.P. Thompson
— Paul Buhle -
A Flawed Conception of Class
— Bruce Levine -
History as Argument
— Bryan D. Palmer - Reviews
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Looking Inside the Education Crisis
— Robert Bartlett -
The Troubled State of Labor
— Stephanie Luce -
A Focus of Anti-capitalist Struggle?
— Jan Cox -
The Roots of Academic Freedom
— Michael Steven Smith -
Communist Writing in Anti-Communist Times
— Judith E. Smith -
Tony Cliff as a Socialist Leader
— Samuel Farber
The Editors
ON ONE LEVEL, even discussing the U.S. Senate’s tortuous immigration reform bill may seem pointless, given that anything that might be passed by the current chamber of horrors known as the House of Representatives will unquestionably be even worse, and absolutely unsupportable for any supporter of immigrant rights — or basic human rights for that matter.
Nonetheless, the discussion matters because this legislation, or the lack of it, heavily impacts the real lives of millions of people in this country — people who live in permanent insecurity but are becoming increasingly vocal about their rights and their families’ futures. That’s why we present, in the following three contributions, a sampling of voices and arguments on what the “comprehensive immigration reform” as passed by the Senate might, or might not, mean.
The views represented here reflect, in part, regional variations in how the crisis facing undocumented immigrants and their communities is experienced (Georgia, the Midwest, the Southwest) as well as other factors, and certainly they are not exhaustive. Regardless of the outcome of this particular legislative round, the struggle for authentic immigration reform, for citizenship and against the obscene militarization of the border must remain a high priority for the social justice movement.
As a resolution adopted at the recent national convention of Solidarity, the socialist organization that sponsors this magazine, states: “Solidarity supports the fight of the immigrant communities for a just immigration reform that legalizes the undocumented and stops the criminalization of immigrants and the militarization of the border.“
September/October 2013, ATC 166