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The Left Current launches during a moment that calls for resistance. It calls for reconstruction, and it calls for community care. READ MORE

Daring to Meet the Moment

Stories
Support the Lights, Cameras, Comrades Initiative!
Direct Action
Anaïs Monique
Support the Lights, Cameras, Comrades Initiative!
Direct Action
Anaïs Monique

The revolution needs truth-tellers, documentarians, filmmakers, legal observers, content creators, and professional yappers willing to wield their platforms to strike back against imperialism. Lights, Cameras, Comrades will provide secure delivery of the media production equipment, as well as humanitarian aid. LCC will also host free storytelling workshops to local and global communities, strengthen information exchanges, and ensure marginalized people are able to pushback on media blockades.

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Direct Action
Anaïs Monique
Daring to Meet the Moment
Opinion, Editor Letters
Anaïs Monique
Daring to Meet the Moment
Opinion, Editor Letters
Anaïs Monique

Corporate media has tainted their own credibility to be a truth-teller, let alone a good witness. They have not resisted the incentive to manipulate the truth and the narratives they broadcast. If they will deny genocides, ignore lynchings, and frame victims for their own harm, they will never dignify revolutionaries who dare to meet the moment.

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Opinion, Editor Letters
Anaïs Monique
Your Friends Identify as Leftists but Keep Voting for Centrists
Trends
Khushali Patel
Your Friends Identify as Leftists but Keep Voting for Centrists
Trends
Khushali Patel

If you’re reading this, you have likely reckoned with the fact that the two-party system does not work for us. And as you’ve begun to explore other options, like voting third-party, you may have been met with resignation, dismissiveness, or even judgement from friends and family…

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Trends
Khushali Patel
I’m Embarrassed to Say: I Used to Be a Liberal
Opinion
Sunghi Yoo
I’m Embarrassed to Say: I Used to Be a Liberal
Opinion
Sunghi Yoo

The awakening for this Gen Xer has been a journey. When I thought I was a liberal, I understood the basics. Republicans were evil and Democrats were less evil. I believed that if we just voted in “a good person” for the presidency, we’d finally have a government that works for the people. I also understood third party candidates never won. Those people would either never make it past the primaries or be villainized as the reason we ended up with a Republican president. Only in 2025 did I wake up.

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Opinion
Sunghi Yoo

In this episode, we challenge the narrative that the establishment defeated the left in Wisconsin, and explore how David Crowley’s win was driven by strategic Black voters. We also look at the alarming confirmation hearings for Trump’s CDC director pick, Dr. Erica Schwartz, who wants to implement federal abortion surveillance, which threatens reproductive freedom and could worsen the critical maternal mortality crisis for Black women.

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