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Ernest Mandel's biographer describes the Supreme Court decision that kept Mandel out of the United States — and set a precedent for the Muslim travel ban. 

Peter Hallward examines political mobilizations among Haiti's popular classes in the years between the US-backed 2004 coup and the first presidential elections that followed, in 2006 — and the violent repression that met them. 

In this extract from Alt-America, David Neiwert looks back at the early days of the Trump presidency and the lies and authoritarian tactics that underpin it.

In conversation with Juan Dal Maso, Razmig Keucheyan discusses twenty-first century critical theory, the need for strategic thinking, and the Marxist perspective on the environmental crisis. 

Juliet Jacques and writer and curator Paul Clinton discuss the wave of queer radicalism that followed May 1968 in France.

Japan is experiencing a demographic crisis, with low fertility rates and an aging population. But why does sex and reproduction cause so much anxiety, and what portents for a alternative economics does the crisis hold?

In US–Korean relations, the language of peace has long been a strategy of disavowal, but it has also served as terrain for contestation. 

"If one does not concede that the universe has boundaries, how can one accept the idea of its non-existence? Matter did not arise from nothingness. It will not return to nothingness. It is eternal, imperishable. Although it is undergoing constant transformation, it can neither diminish nor grow by one atom."

If the abolition of ICE is to be more than symbolic, it must include the abolition of local police departments. 

As the World Cup continues in Russia, Marc Perelman attacks a "footballisation of the mind."

Jeremy Milloy discusses workplace violence of the 1960s-1980s as a matter of politics and economics with hosts Betsy Beasley and David Stein. 

In this excerpt from her memoirs, activist and writer Yvonne Kapp reflects on the decade-long research and writing of her definitive biography of Eleanor Marx.