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How did security become the rallying cry for the US government to restrict immigration in the post-war period?

All Jacobin books are 40% off to celebrate the release of All American Nativism by Dan Denvir.

Keir Starmer has made his pitch for the Labour leadership on a promise to retain the party's left-wing policies, whilst also being pragmatic and electable. Yet, as Oliver Eagleton writes, a look at his chequered career to date puts his left credentials in severe doubt.

After enduring 7 long months on strike, a group of undocumented migrant postal workers in France have claimed victory against backbreaking and dangerous working conditions they experienced at Chronopost, a subsidiary of the French postal service. In this article, Luke Butterly reports on the struggle and the latest in the wave of migrant fights in France.

On 12 January 2010, the philosopher Daniel Bensaïd, a leading figure of May ‘68, of the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire and the Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste, died at the age of 63. Here, Alain Badiou pays tribute to his life and work, during a seminar devoted to Plato.

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Maya Goodfellow on the the historical roots of the hostile environment policy, the punitive, cruel and deliberately confusing character of Britain's immigration system, and how New Labour's policies on migration and asylum laid some of the basis for the Conservative's migration policies, with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast.

A post-capitalist manifesto for conservation.

One lesson drawn in General Election post-mortems by many on the left is the need for greater democracy in the Labour Party. But, as John-Baptiste Oduor argues, in the absence of working class mobilisation democratisation has served to further distance the Party from its working class base.

Bill V. Mullen and Christopher Vials reflect on the Trump Administration's recent executive order, which claims to protect Jews in the face of growing fascist violence in the U.S. Instead, they argue, it is only the latest salvo in the president's culture war against the left and its perceived institutional homes.

Since the middle of December, France has been gripped by a wave of large scale strikes. In this article the French collective Plateforme d’Enquêtes Militantes analyses the composition of the strikes, and the potential for its continued escalation.

Bilal Zenab Ahmed on the potentially devastating consequences of the assassination of General Soleimani by the USA