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When do we get angry? Igniting a mass movement for abortion rights in a post-Dobbs world
On June 24, 2022, the US Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution does not protect a woman’s right to get an abortion, and that the…
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Caught on the threshold: Undocumented immigrant workers in a California farming town
A social investigation report from GATT readers in California. Camarillo is a city of near 70,000 people in Ventura County, California. The city is centered…
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Hunan-style What-Is-To-Be-Done?-ism
An introduction to Going Against the Tide #6. Over a year ago, we published a lengthy editorial with a lengthy title, “The reactionary repudiation of…
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Whistles won’t stop this: The immigrant proletariat and state repression from Chinese exclusion to the Bovino boys’ terror
Since the start of Trump’s second presidential term, the immigrant proletariat has been at the center of a firestorm of state repression, fueled by rabid…
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The grifter style in American politics
In its first year at the helm of state power, the second Trump administration has moved rapidly and decisively to reshape US politics, policy, and…
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“This isn’t a life”: Migrant misery in the metropole
A social investigation report from GATT readers in NYC. Jackson Heights is a bustling neighborhood in Queens, home to people from all backgrounds and nationalities.…
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Uncertain future in Steel City
A social investigation of Lorain, Ohio submitted by GATT readers in the Midwest, October 2025 Chris is 68 years old and started working at a…
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Capitalism can’t tolerate trans people, so let’s overthrow it: Class divisions, third genders, and proletarian revolution
The oppression of trans people cuts to the heart of one of the most important class antagonisms under capitalism. Patriarchy has cleaved the world’s population…
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Cheering for the “good guys” abroad or relying on the masses to overthrow imperialism
For about two decades, anti-imperialism, especially with any mass character, was largely absent from the political scene in the US. The militant protests against capitalist…
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The martyrdom of Comrade Basavaraj and the Indian government’s war on its own people
On May 21, 2025, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), Namballa Kesava Rao, was gunned down by an elite unit of…
Going Against the Tide: A journal charting a path for communist revolution in the US 